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"It Was Chutzpah!" Directing a Yiddish Play

Shirley Cohen Steinberg, writer and director of Yiddish plays, discusses her first experience directing Yiddish theater.

Visiting the Yiddish Book Center with My Yiddish-Speaking Grandson

Paula Boltman, former actress in the Melbourne Yiddish theater, remembers going to the Yiddish Book Center with her Yiddish-speaking 6 year old grandson for a week-long program. She remembers Aaron Lansky's lectures and some other activities.

The Importance of Theater and Music to Jewish Life in New York in the Early 20th Century

Edna Nahshon, expert of Jewish theatre and step daughter of Yiddish writer Dovid Aidelman, describes the importance of theater and music in American Jewish life.

Devised Theater

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.

“Above the Town”: A Yiddish-Norwegian Cabaret

Bente Kahan, Jewish-Norwegian performing artist, on the Yiddish-Norwegian Cabaret in 1983 that brought her back to the theater.

Responsibility of Theater Actors to Raise Themselves and Their Audiences Up

Tom Oppenheim, grandson of Yiddish theatre actors Jacob and Sara Adler, Artistic Director and President of Stella Adler Studio of Acting, discusses Stella Adler's passion for literature and mythology and her conviction that the responsibility of thea...

Stella Adler's First Theater Memory and Her Capacity to Identify Strongly With Others

Tom Oppenheim, grandson of Yiddish theatre actors Jacob and Sara Adler, Artistic Director and President of Stella Adler Studio of Acting, tells the story of Stella's first theater experience as a child, when she saw an actor getting into character in...

It Started On Stage: My Great Love with Yiddish Actor, Itzhak Turkow

Shura Grinhoyz-Turkow—Yiddish actress and activist born in Bialystok, now living in Israel—describes love with Itzhok Turkow after meeting through theater.

Stella Adler and The Group Theatre

Ellen Adler Oppenheim, daughter of actress Stella Adler and granddaughter of Yiddish actors Jacob and Sara Adler, discusses her family's involvement with the Group Theater.

Zalmen Mlotek

Zalmen Mlotek, Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on September 24th, 2019 in New York City. This interview is a musical addendum of an earlier interview.

2019-09-24

"It's Not Important Why": A Revived Interest in Yiddish in Israel Today

Lea Szlanger, a Yiddish actress born in Poland, describes the contemporary revival of Yiddish in Israeli theater and in Israel in general. Across the country, Israeli actors and actresses are studying Yiddish and performing in a number of theaters.

"With That Gift Comes Responsibility": Reflections on the Importance of Yiddish

Aron Gonshor reflects emotionally on the lessons he has learned, concerning the transmission of Yiddish, from his trips to Vienna with The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theater.