Thomas Soxberger was born in 1965 in Lower Austria. He moved to Vienna to study History and Jewish Studies. In the early 1990s Thomas participated in Yiddish Summer Programmes in Oxford. 1998-2000 – ...
On Wednesday, June 28, 2023, at 7:30 PM ET, the Boston-based radio show Dos Yidishe Kol (The Yiddish Voice) will air its interview with Avrom Novershtern, professor emeritus from the Yiddish Program ...
The opinion that Yiddish as the language of the great mass of Jews will survive, is expressed by Louis Marshall in an interview with the representative of the New York Yiddish daily “The Day,” during ...
He never saw it coming. Fyvush Finkel, who died Sunday at age 93, had big plans for the future, including an upcoming 94th birthday show at the Metropolitan Room, hopes of seeing “Hamilton” once the ...
In a candid interview with Tim Teeman, the Oscar-, Tony-, and Golden Globe-winning Joel Grey talks sexuality, winding down his stage career, and his Yiddish ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’ Senior Editor and ...
How would you describe your music to someone who doesn’t know it? Daniel Kahn: It depends on whom I’m describing it to. There are different components in our music. One can say that it’s klezmer music ...
Dan Katzir was a thirtysomething Israeli filmmaker on vacation in New York City when he was accosted by 84-year-old Zypora Spaisman on the subway. The bird-weight octogenarian had been a star and ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. No doubt you've seen at least one production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. If you ...
To BE or not to be — ” The actor pauses for effect, then moves downstage. “Let it be, that’s what we paid for!” shouts an old man in the orchestra. Othello gestures to Desdemona, boards a gondola — ...
Still not sure of who Adam B. Shapiro is? Then I suggest you take a trip to New World Stages in the next two weeks to see him featured in the 2019 Drama Desk Award winning Off-Broadway production of ...
Fyvush Finkel’s adieu on August 14 elicited an avalanche of indelible memories—beyond his roles in “Picket Fences” and other TV venues. Among these: The June 21, 2004’s The Yiddish Artists & Friends ...
The names Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky may not sound familiar today, but at the height of their fame in the 1920s and '30s, the Thomashefskys were one of the most famous couples in New York City's ...