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Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas, celebrated conductor and Yiddish Theater royalty, dies at 81

The conductor led major symphonies and championed music education

By PJ Grisar Apr 23, 2026 | 3 min read
Yiddish World
Restored 1939 Yiddish melodrama ‘Mothers of Today’ is silly, but fun

A mother drinks, smokes, gambles, and mocks the old-fashioned mother next door

By A. L. Rickman Feb 5, 2024 | 4 min read
The Schmooze
This Week in Forward Arts and Culture

In the first of a two-part series, Lisa Traiger traces the growth of Israeli folk dancing from one dance — “Hora Agadati” in 1924 — to 4,678 in 2005. Jordana Horn surveys the career of the remarkable Moroccan-Israel actress Ronit Elkabetz, who was recently honored by the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival. Philologos is,…

By Ezra Glinter Mar 27, 2011 | < 1 min read
The Schmooze
Shifra Lerer, 95, Yiddish Star of Stage and Screen

A version of this post appeared in Yiddish. On March 12 the Yiddish theater lost one of its most beloved stars. Shifra Lerer, an Argentine-born actress who toured the world and who later appeared in films by Woody Allen and Sidney Lumet, died in Manhattan at the age of 95. I met Shifra during my…

By Itzik Gottesman Mar 16, 2011 | 3 min read

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