Nahma Sandrow
By Nahma Sandrow
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Yiddish World Confronting art and love as the Nazis close in
In the play ‘Beneath the Ice of the Vistula,’ a Jewish composer refuses to flee before finishing his master work.
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News A Yiddish Song-and-Dance Man Sings His Own Story
What a Life! The Autobiography of Pesach’ke Burstein, Yiddish Matinee Idol By Pesach’ke Burstein with Lillian Lux Burstein Syracuse University Press, 224 pages, $34.95. * * *| Pesach “Pesach’ke” Burstein, the popular Yiddish song-and-dance man, set out to tell his own personal story. On that level, “What a Life! The Autobiography of Pesach’ke Burstein, Yiddish…
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