Caraid O’Brien
By Caraid O’Brien
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News Goodbye to ‘Little Miss Sparkle’
Esta Salzman, the last actress to be part of New York City’s Second Avenue musical theater scene during its heyday in the 1920s and ’30s, died April 23 at the age of 94. I met Esta in 1999, when our mutual friend, the Yiddish tenor Seymour Rexite, brought her to see my translation of “God…
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News Revolution on Stage
The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution By Benjamin Harshav, translated by Benjamin Harshav and Barbara Harshav Yale University Press, 248 pages, $45. In 1992, the Guggenheim Museum collaborated with scholar Benjamin Harshav on an exhibit of Marc Chagall’s legendary set designs for the Moscow State Yiddish Art Theater, known…
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Culture Leopold Bloom’s Brothers
Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History By Cormac Ó. Gráda Princeton University Press, 320 pages, $35. My Irish Catholic grandmother fulfilled a life-long goal in her 80s when she traveled to the Holy Land; however, the story she told on her return was not of the sights she’d seen. Wandering around…
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Culture The Irish and the Yiddish Theaters
How does an Irish Catholic become a translator of Yiddish drama? It’s a question I am asked, over and over. The short answer is that I came to study Yiddish literature, and later Yiddish theater, through my love of the Anglo-Irish and Gaelic literary traditions. The longer answer requires a bit of history. The Irish…
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News Luba Kadison Buloff, 99, Last Survivor of Yiddish Theater Company
The world of the theater lost a peerless artist last week. Yiddish actress Luba Kadison Buloff passed away on May 4 in her apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side at the age of 99. Born in 1906 in Kovno, Lithuania, the last surviving member of the renowned Yiddish theater company the Vilna Troupe, she was…
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