At the recent Montreal International Yiddish Theatre Festival, Itzik Gottesman of the Yiddish Forward spoke with Shmuel Atzmon, the founder and director of Yiddishpiel Theater in Tel Aviv about the future of Yiddish theater in Israel. A video about Atzmon and his work follows:
To watch a recent forward.com video about the Montreal International Yiddish Theatre Festival, click here.
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For Yiddish-speaking Jews, the Yiddish language defines them as a nation. Calling the Montreal Yiddish Theatre "international" can only be interpretted as a collapse of Yiddish identity with the adoption of English as the real language of North American Jewry. Only English-speaking Jews could see Yiddish actors from Israel and Yiddish actors from the USA as coming from different "nations". A Yiddish-speaker sees them as members of one nation.