As I write this he’s on his way to Israel. Unfortunately, he’s headed there for his burial. In Adar, the neis, the miracle, is that
You don’t have to wait for Tanglewood to open its gates to kick off your summer fun. Charleston, one of America’s most beautiful cities, will
Part II Aaron Lansky’s center and other similar archives of all things Yiddish appeal to more than hasidic Jews. Digitized books, articles, lectures and interviews
“S’iz chver tzu zein a Yid” (it’s difficult to be a Jew), the saying goes, but when it comes to the Berkshires it’s never been
It took more than half a century to have a professional staging of “Fiddler on the Roof” in New York in Yiddish. In the intervening
Playwrights are advised that to keep an audience engaged from the first scene until the last, the basic plotline needs the equivalent of a famished
“We will sing to the Nazis what we cannot say to them,” Gabriel (Gabi) Schacter insisted. He was conducting many of the world’s greatest musicians
“They’re going to close it down,” I thought as I sat in an auditorium at Yale, waiting for one of the many panel discussions to
To write an award-winning book that reads like page-turning novel is a rare achievement for an academic. Yet, “The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the
One cannot definitively state that Aldo Finzi was murdered by Mussolini. What is certain: the Fascist leader and the state he created did not contribute
Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Barbra Streisand … and now, Bette Midler. Not traditional American beauties, these Jewish self-made powerhouses project a magnetically endearing combination of
“Oslo,” by J.T. Rogers, currently at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, is masterfully written and performed. It recently won a Tony Award for Best Play and
