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Forverts in English Sholem Asch’s groundbreaking play, “God of Vengeance”, now streaming in English
An artful online video adaptation of Sholem Asch’s groundbreaking 1906 Yiddish play, “God of Vengeance”, is now streaming through May 31, 2021. The 100-minute video is in English. The play, known in Yiddish as “Got fun nekome”, tells the story of a seemingly observant Jewish couple and their daughter Rivkeleh who live upstairs in their…
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Forverts in English EXCLUSIVE: Did Writer Sholem Asch Reject His Orphaned Nephews?
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The classic Yiddish writer, Sholem Asch, whose serialized stories once graced the pages of the Forverts, has become a familiar name as of late, thanks to the new theatrical production of his novel about a Jewish brothel owner, “God of Vengeance” and Paula Vogel‘s acclaimed drama about…
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Culture Once an Obscene Scandal, a Hit Yiddish Play Returns 93 Years Later
The opening of “Indecent,” a new play by Paula Vogel co-created with director Rebecca Taichman, is reminiscent of the scene in “Inception” in which Leonardo DiCaprio takes Ellen Page through the basics of dream architecture. He escorts her through an initially recognizable world that begins inverting and contorting itself, resulting in a dreamscape created less…
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Culture Does Translating Yiddish Preserve History Or Betray It?
Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the 20th Century By Anita Norich University of Washington Press, 160 pages, $30 Translators are villains, lechers, traitors. Like the spinster who translates Yankel Ostrover’s stories in Cynthia Ozick’s “Envy; or, Yiddish in America,” they are vain. “Who has read James Joyce, Ostrover or I?” she seethes. “I didn’t…
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The Schmooze Jewish Jesus, Now and Then
Crossposted From Under the Fig Tree Not since the 1939 debut of Sholem Asch’s “The Nazarene: A Novel Based on the Life of Christ,” has so much media attention been showered on the Jewish perspective on Jesus and the New Testament. The recent release of “The Jewish Annotated New Testament,” an Oxford University Press publication…
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The Schmooze Out and About: A Bar Mitzvah at Auschwitz; Sholem Asch’s Family Photos
Branko Lustig, producer of “Schindler’s List” and “Gladiator,” plans to hold his (belated) bar mitzvah at Auschwitz. The Yiddish Book Center has put the family photos of Yiddish writer Scholem Asch online. Joshua Cohen interviews Israeli novelist Yoram Kaniuk for The Paris Review. Jeffrey Goldberg on the trials and tribulations of Sister Mary Schmuck of…
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The Schmooze When Mikhoels Came to America
A longer version of this post appeared in Yiddish. Some weeks ago, on December 12, I was involved in a commemoration at YIVO of the 120th birthday anniversary of the great Yiddish actor and director Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels. I am not sure if Mikhoels is well known among the younger generation in Russia, or anywhere…
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