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Culture Is this salacious opera a critique of Jewishness — or a celebration of its complexity?
The Metropolitan Opera's production of 'Salome' puts a Freudian spin on the famous opera
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Yiddish World Opera brings to life the poignant fate of the Great Yiddish Dictionary
Linguist Yudel Mark aimed to include every single word of the Yiddish language
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Music How my story about Nazi-looted art inspired an opera by one of America’s greatest composers
'Before It All Goes Dark' started life as an article in the Chicago Tribune
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Culture Once upon a time, a Yiddish-ish ‘Mikado’ starred Danny Kaye, Jerome Robbins and Judy Garland
Though no recordings were made of the 'Yinglish Mikado,' traces of it remain
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Music In 1943, an opera was composed at a concentration camp. Now, it’s a graphic novel
‘Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis’ adapts a German parable of life, death and despotism
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Theater In a Romeo-and-Juliet musical set in WWII Shanghai, Chinese and Jewish refugees are star-crossed lovers
'Émigré,' a new production by the New York Philharmonic, recalls the city's embrace of over 20,000 people fleeing the Holocaust
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Music A lost Yiddish opera complete, and in performance, at last
How a composer, librettist and historian filled in the blanks on the missing masterpiece 'Bas Sheve'
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