This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. It is part of a series on Forverts memories written by and about present and past Forverts writers and editors. Just a few months after I ...

In 1911, the Yiddish operetta Shir Hashirim: The Song of Love premiered in New York City, and became immensely popular, performed on stages around the world for decades. The musical comedy, composed ...

Yiddish Theater: A Love Story Israeli helmer Dan Katzir's docu revolves around 84-year-old veteran actress Zypora Spaisman's efforts to keep an Off Broadway production of the venerable 1916 play ...

The Jewish/Yiddish event of the year will take place virtually from September 7-13 when the Yiddishkayt Initiative (YILoveJewish.org) hosts its "Inaugural International VIRTUAL YI Love YiddishFest." ...

Without even knowing it, we’ve all absorbed a set of intensely negative beliefs about Yiddish, and one successful show hasn’t changed that. And yet, when I recently stepped onto a stage and spoke ...

New Yiddish Rep will present Lea Kalisch (www.leakalisch.com) in a new solo show, "In Love with a Dream," as its May 11 "Kabaret!" at The Cyrus and Rose Feldman Studio Theater, 315 W. 39 Street, 9th ...

AMHERST, Massachusetts (JTA) — Josh Dolgin, the Canadian rapper and klezmer musician who performs as Socalled, was nearing the end of a raucous, crowd-pleasing set last Sunday when he paused to ...

Between the late '30s and 2006, the number of Yiddish stage theaters in the Big Apple sadly dwindled from twelve to one. Two of the last remaining institutions were the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre, ...

When Naomi Jaye, who has been making short films in her native Canada for the past 10 years, told friends she was embarking on her first feature film, they cheered. When she added that the project ...

Zypora Spaisman, a Holocaust survivor and actress who runs America’s oldest Yiddish theater, on the Lower East Side, tries to keep the lights on during one cold Hanukkah in New York, even as her ...