Warsaw Jewish socialist martyr Artur Zygielbojm was a harsh critic of Zionism
The play 'Amid Falling Walls' links the Bundist with Jewish longing for Palestine. He would have balked at this interpretation
The play 'Amid Falling Walls' links the Bundist with Jewish longing for Palestine. He would have balked at this interpretation
The Folksbiene’s ‘Amid Falling Walls’ is a grand showcase that’s often hard to follow
The Folksbiene's ‘Amid Falling Walls’ highlights three generations of one family’s work in Yiddish music
After the war, partisan fighter Shmerke Kaczerginski visited displaced persons camps and recorded the songs that survivors shared with him.
The Folksbiene production reconciles the need to speak a universal language, as well as a specific one
Steven Skybell, who played Tevye in a production scuppered by the pandemic, spent lockdown learning Yiddish songs
The award-winning Folksbiene production will play off-Broadway’s New World Stages this fall in a limited engagement
If “Memory” wasn’t already a marquee name in showtunes, Barry Manilow probably would have used the title for a song in his new musical. Now playing at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, “Harmony,” about the Comedian Harmonists, a sextet of German singer-comedians, is also all about memory – both history’s short recall for a popular…
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