- Diane Cypkin, professor at Pace University and performer, remembers how during her production of a Yiddish play the audience began singing the lyrics to the the Jewish folk melody that accompanied a scene change.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Lea Szlanger, a Yiddish actress born in Poland, describes working in Yiddish theaters in Israel during the time when Yiddish was suppressed by the government.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Harendorf, Samuel Jacob, 1900-
- Steinberg, Aaron, 1891-1975
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library
- Bryna Wasserman, executive director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene and daughter of Yiddish actress Dora Wasserman, reflects on the challenges of Yiddish theater and the way forward.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Edna Nahshon, expert of Jewish Theater and professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, gives some insight on the future of Yiddish theater.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Yelena Shmulenson – NY-based Yiddish actress from the Former Soviet Union – offers her advice in regards to Yiddish theater. Her advice includes how to improve one's Yiddish for performing and how one can promote and create new Yiddish theater.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Caraid O'Brien—writer, performer, and director, including of Yiddish works—gives advice to those curious about Yiddish theater and culture, including encouragement to learn the Yiddish language.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Doodie Ringelblum, medical doctor and Yiddish activist based in Melbourne, explains the establishment and development of the Melbourne Yiddish Youth Theatre, of which he was an active member.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Marlene Hait, raised in a Yiddish home by survivors of the Holocaust, recounts her brief foray into Yiddish theater, when she performed with the Toronto Peretz shule in a burlesque production.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Yakob Basner, Yiddish teacher and Holocaust survivor, recalls the thriving Yiddish theater scene in Riga before the war, and how he used to go to show with his neighbor who worked as a stagehand.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
