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The Vilna Troupe: My Grandparents' Involvement in Yiddish Theatre

Barbara Buloff, daughter of Yiddish actors Joseph Buloff & Luba Kadison, and granddaughter of Leib Kadison, cofounder of the Vilna Troupe, discusses Leib Kadison's background in Europe grandparents' involvement in the Yiddish theatre in Poland, inclu...

Avia Moore

Avia Moore, freelance performing artist, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 14, 2011 at the Jewish Public Library in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her parents were self-described hippies; her father was Jewish and not very religious. She reme...

2011-12-14

"The Power of this Acting Business”: Advice From Yehuda Bleich For A Minor Yiddish Theater Role

Isaac "Ying" Halpern, the son of Yiddish poet Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, remembers summers doing plays at Camp Boiberik, and the year he got personal acting coaching from Yiddish theatre star Yehuda Bleich, to apparently great effect.

"When the Moon Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie, That's a Tsures": Connecting to Judaism at the Yiddish Theatre

Barbara Buloff, daughter of Yiddish actors Joseph Buloff & Luba Kadison, and granddaughter of Leib Kadison, cofounder of the Vilna Troupe, discusses the way her family's involvement in Yiddish theatre shaped her Jewish identity from a young age. She ...

People’s Baffled Reactions to Serious Yiddish Plays through the New Worlds Theatre Project

Ellen Perecman, founder and producing artistic director of the New Worlds Theatre Project, discusses people's reactions to Yiddish plays, ranging from the realization that Yiddish plays are just as varied as any other type of play to asking questions...

(Re)Interpreting the History of Yiddish in Israel: Theatre, Literature, and Language

Rachel Rojanski, Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University, discusses her work from her book on the decline of the Yiddish press and the resurgence of a revived, transformed Yiddish theatre in Israel.

Yasha Sher and the Theater

Ruth Friede, daughter of Yiddish actor Yasha Sher and teacher Shulamis Giligich, and granddaughter of Yosef Giligitch, remembers her father Yasha Sher's love of Yiddish theater. She remembers that when he immigrated to Melbourne, he connected with th...

I Saw All of Them; I Wouldn't Miss Them:" Yiddish Theatre and Film

Selma Gordon, a retired school aide, talks about going to Yiddish theatre and film productions as a child.

Chana Mlotek

Chana Mlotek, z"l, renowned musicologist and folklorist specializing in Yiddish music, theatre, and poetry - was interviewed by Hankus Netsky on August 15, 2011 at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City. Chana's parents were both fro...

2011-08-15

Arthur Allan Seidelman

Arthur Allan Seidelman, Emmy award-winning director and nephew of Yiddish performers Isidore and Jennie Cashier, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on November 30, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Those of his Latvian and Russian relatives who did no...

2017-11-30

From the repertoire of the Yiddish Art Theatre

Shane Baker

Shane Baker

April 10, 2005

Barbara Buloff

Barbara Buloff, daughter of Yiddish actors Joseph Buloff & Luba Kadison, and granddaughter of Leyb Kadison, cofounder of the Vilna Troupe, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on January 11th, 2017, in New York City. She is the last surviving member of...

2017-01-11

Andrei Malaev-Babel

Andrei Malaev-Babel, theater director and grandson of writer Isaac Babel, was interviewed by David Schlitt on May 15, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Andrei begins the interview describing his childhood in Moscow, Russia a...

2011-05-16

Jennie Goldstein sings Yiddish Theatre Hits

Jennie Goldstein

Jennie Goldstein

May 27, 1966

My First Job Performing in Yiddish Theatre

Diane Cypkin, professor at Pace University and performer, recalls the circumstances that led to her first performing in Yiddish theatre and vaudeville on 2nd Avenue in New York.