The Yiddish Book Center's

Wexler Oral History Project

A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

Devised Theater

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Avia describes her theater education. She introduces Devised Theater, a non-linear and communal method to play making. She explains how contemporary Yiddish theater can use this method.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Avia Moore.

This excerpt is in English.

Avia Moore was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1982.