No, you’re not seeing double. Clad in matching outfits, Yiddish singing duo The Shvesters (Yiddish for “The Sisters”) ...

Julie Williams, an English professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana, chose the first question in the Yiddish Theater category after it appeared during Double Jeopardy ...

Anski's The Dybbuk. Stephen Kaplan's production of this classic Yiddish play was too often clumsy and out of sorts with the text to be completely redeemed by the superb concluding acts.

In Yiddish and English, a single word—play, or shpil—refers both to recreational enjoyment and to theatrical performance. These two senses of shpil capture the essence of Purim, a holiday ...

The Eagles just call it first down. The play itself is a modern update, and its name carries a legacy as well that stretches back much further — to Yiddish, to Jewish comedy and to one of the ...

In response, the new exhibit depicts the “secular” Yiddish culture that arose in the mid-19th century as a distinctly transglobal, modern movement that includes theater, the press, mass market ...

Between 1929 and 1939, Waszyński made 40 films. The Michael Friedman online Library of Jewish Writers presents audiences with classic Yiddish works, including well-known titles that have long been out ...

The production will be helmed by Tony Award-winning director Warren Carlyle at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF). The musical tells the true story of the Comedian Harmonists ...