Why do so many authors of news articles about the Yiddishist world get it wrong? This question has been plaguing Yiddish cultural critic Rokhl Kafrissen for years. “There is a certain narrative that ...

When it comes to the famous bottle dance from the wedding scene in “Fiddler on the Roof,” Staṥ Kmieḉ, the choreographer for the upcoming Yiddish production of the show, won’t hear of using anything ...

For the past decade, the Yiddish theater district of Manhattan’s Second Avenue has been dark, save for one tiny flicker of activity in a four-story building on East 7th Street. Every few months, the ...

Allen Lewis Rickman and Yelena Shmulenson smile a lot more in real life than they did as husband and wife Velvel and Dora in the shtetl prologue to the Coen Brothers’ film “A Serious Man.” For that, ...

Years ago, when I worked at the Forward, I had a cameo in a real-life Yiddish drama. A cub reporter named Max Gross sat just outside my office, where he answered the phones. A frequent caller was Inna ...

JTA — Years ago, when I worked at the Forward, I had a cameo in a real-life Yiddish drama. A cub reporter named Max Gross sat just outside my office, where he answered the phones. A frequent caller ...