Deborah Feldman wrote a book about her flight from the Hasidic community. The American publisher called it a memoir. The German publisher called it a novel. A discrepancy I can only attribute to the difference in what passes for truth in America and Germany. One might...
Now that I, along with the rest of the world am on lock down, it seems a perfect time for me and the other members of The New Yiddish Rep to get serious about blogging. so here goes my first attempt. My husband David Mandelbaum, the force behind The New Yiddish Rep...
Photo Source: George Xenos Review: Backstage Shane Bertram Baker’s one-man show, written with director Allen Lewis Rickman, may claim to be a guide for gentiles, but it really instructs his primarily Jewish audience on how a Missouri goy came to be...
A friend of mine called me about a month ago and said she’d been scrolling through her news feed and had come across something she thought I might find interesting. ”Do you know who the Governor is naming a Brooklyn park after?” She asked. It took me barely a...
צושטרויבלט בין איך אינגאנצןאיך וואק אהיןאיך וואק אהערארום און ארוםאון דערנאך נאכאמאלנישט איך וואק אויף די גראדע ווענטנאר די גראדע ווענט וואקן אויף מיראיך בין זייער פארנומען מיט טון גארנישטאון איך האלט מיך אין איין אפריעןווייל עס נעמט אסאל כח צו גארנישט טוןאפילו די...
What is authenticity? This is not the question I thought I’d be wrestling with right now as I sit at my new home-away-from-home inside my home with thoughts of spread and infection rate and essential workers and PPE all swirling around in my brain like viral...
Drama Desk nominations for: Best Revival Best Actor THE FORWARD Yiddish Breathes New Life Into ‘Death of a Salesman’ Ezra GlinterOctober 16, 2015 Is “Death of a Salesman” a Jewish play? Is Willy Loman, its main character, Jewish? The question has...
KIRKUS REVIEW A remarkable testament to faith in the face of suffering. Zvi Kolitz is a Lithuanian Jew who left Europe in 1940 for Jerusalem, where he built a life as a daring Zionist freedom fighter. Just over a year after WWII ended, he wrote a gut-wrenching short...
