An example of popular Yiddish entertainment of yesteryear, “Mothers of Today” is being screened as part of the New York Jewish Film Festival. (New York Jewish Week) — The New York Jewish Film Festival ...

BRATTLEBORO — At 8 p.m. Aug. 8, Isle of Klezbos will perform klezmer fusion to film at Epsilon Spires. Isle of Klezbos performs music inspired by Yiddish cinema soundtracks as well as exhibiting ...

In a popular Yiddish film released in 1939, a male character named Getsl Bokser says, “Mayn vayb iz fun di hayntike mames” (“My wife is one of those ‘nowadays’ mothers”). His wife clearly is ‘a modern ...

“The Gospel According to Chaim” is billed as the first full-length Yiddish drama written in the United States in 70 years. (New York Jewish Week) — The true story of a formerly Hasidic Baltimore man ...

Last month, a new Yiddish drama, The Gospel According to Chaim (“Di psure loyt khayim”), ran for just two-and-a-half weeks in a small theater in lower Manhattan. But to paraphrase astronaut Neil ...

Paula Vogel's drama "Indecent" embodies a heated argument familiar to anyone who studies theater or literature. "Why must every Jew onstage be a paragon?" asks a playwright who's just written a ...

While there’s never been a Yiddish festival in Richmond — or even Virginia — there’s a growing international movement of people like Shokin and Kraft (Yiddishists) who are committed to the study and ...

Actress Helen Beverley, who performed in Yiddish theater as well as in the Yiddish films “Green Fields,” “The Light Ahead” and “Overture to Glory” and was the first wife of the late actor Lee J. Cobb, ...