- Anabella, Yiddish actress, explains how fifty years ago, it was said that Israeli Yiddish theater was only full of older actors. Anabella now sees new generations of young Israelis entering the Yiddish theater scene all the time.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Lea Szlanger, a Yiddish actress born in Poland, describes how a conversation with Jakub Rotbaum—a famous Yiddish theater director, actor and painter—convinced her to go into theater instead of pursuing a career as an engineer.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Bernie Agranoff, scientist and professor at the University of Michigan, whose uncle was a Yiddish theater prompter in Detroit, remembers a story where a Yiddish theater actor, usually cast as a Hasid, made a humorous mistake during a different role.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Motl Didner, associate artistic director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, explains that "Yiddish theater" has never been a monolithic, singular entity as some would allege, but rather is characterized by a multiplicity of shows, styles,...
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
- Moishe Rosenfeld - Founder of Golden Land Concerts...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Alyssa Quint joins us this week to talk about her new book, “The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater," which examines the beginnings of Yiddish-language theater and delves into one of its brilliant and polarizing figures, Avrom Goldfaden.
Part of The Shmooze Podcast Series
- Rick Grossman, actor and part of a Yiddish theater family, talks about how his grandparents, Samuel B. and Fannie Grossman, came to find Yiddish theater. He explains how his grandmother's influence gave his grandfather a love of playwriting.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Lea Szlanger, a Yiddish actress born in Poland, describes the beginning and development of her career as a professional actress—including Yiddish theater greats such as Shimon Dzigan and Joseph Buloff—from the Warsaw Jewish Theater in Poland, and...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Joel Berkowitz, Director of Jewish Studies and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, comments upon the current state of Yiddish theater and remains optimistic that "the message is getting out there" that there's more to Yiddish theater than just "The...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
