- Paul Azaroff, Hebrew and Judaic Studies teacher and native of New York City, gets to the heart of his love of Yiddish theater and film. He describes his first show in the Yiddish theater as a parade of brilliant colors and artistry, and his love of...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Arnold Zable—author, human rights activist and son of Yiddish-speaking immigrants—gives a brief history of Yiddish theater in Melbourne, Australia. He talks about how it got started, who was involved and where is was performed. He also talks about...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Do you have a Yiddish theater story to tell?
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- Ellen Perecman, founder and producing artistic director of the New Worlds Theatre Project, describes the process of creating the New Worlds Theatre Project, whose mission is to introduce the world to plays written in Yiddish before World War II and...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Alelmlekher Yidisher 3ultur-3ongres. Congreso (8th : 1968 : Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- אלװעלטלעכער ײדישער קולטור־קאנגערס
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library
- Lea Szlanger, a Yiddish actress born in Poland describes the decline of Yiddish theater in Israel.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Motl Didner, associate artistic director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, speaks about the mixed blessing of working in the Yiddish theater without having been trained by its native participants: on the one hand, his actors lack the...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Malca Sussman Hubner recalls going to the Yiddish theater in Montreal as a child.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- 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...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Amanda Lundquist, artist and 2013-2014 Yiddish Book Center fellow, speaks about her Borscht Belt-influenced queer theater troupe, Lipschtick. She remembers how their performance in a theater competition in Austin was met with mixed reactions because...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
