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
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Theater A jam-packed history of wartime Yiddish song leaves you wanting both more and less
The Folksbiene’s ‘Amid Falling Walls’ is a grand showcase that’s often hard to follow
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Theater How songs of the Jewish ghetto, camps and secret cabarets became a musical
The Folksbiene's ‘Amid Falling Walls’ highlights three generations of one family’s work in Yiddish music
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Yiddish World New musical will highlight the remarkable creativity of Jews in the ghettos and camps
After the war, partisan fighter Shmerke Kaczerginski visited displaced persons camps and recorded the songs that survivors shared with him.
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Theater Yiddish ‘Fiddler’ returns, a stirring reminder of Jewish loss and revival
The Folksbiene production reconciles the need to speak a universal language, as well as a specific one
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Culture Yiddish ‘Fiddler’ is coming back to theaters. Here’s how it changed one actor’s life
Steven Skybell, who played Tevye in a production scuppered by the pandemic, spent lockdown learning Yiddish songs
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Theater Yiddish ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ returns to New York with director Joel Grey and original Tevye Steven Skybell
The award-winning Folksbiene production will play off-Broadway’s New World Stages this fall in a limited engagement
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Culture Barry Manilow gives us harmony and Hebrew in a sometimes hammy musical
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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