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The vocabulary of the stories utilizes the palette of the art world, Jewish life and the underworld.
Starting Dec. 17, actors Shane Baker and Miryem-Khaye Seigel will star in NIGHT STORIES, a new Yiddish production (with English supertitles) of four haunting tales written by the great Yiddi…
A new play aims to counteract stereotypes promoted by many news articles about the Yiddishist community.
Shane Baker is wonderful as a Jewish Mephistopheles clad in a kimono and brandishing a fan. Miryem-Khaye Seigel, as the frivolous bride, traverses the demon realm on Baker's back, in stock m…
For four days in January 2025, you'll be able to see a revival of the deliciously wacky show, THE ESSENCE: A YIDDISH THEATRE DIM SUM, in Manhattan. Created and starring Allen Lewis Rickman a…
A selection of three short plays serving up demons, saints and sinners is premiering off-Broadway this month. The show, BASHEVIS'S DEMONS, is based on several short stories by Nobel prize-wi…
The Congress for Jewish Culture is now working to digitize more of its archives, including stories, plays, photographs, artwork and audio recordings.
Yiddish actors will perform a documentary in a Manhattan theater, commemorating Stalin's execution of 13 innocent Jewish intellectuals.
For those of you who live in the New York vicinity, there's no better way optsugebn koved (to honor) those Jews who resisted, those who died and those who survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising…
WAITING FOR GODOT: The performances marked its debut in Sweden, and the first time ever that a play in Yiddish was staged at Sweden's national theater company " the only home that its local …
Both performances of "Waiting for Godot" in Yiddish, to be staged in the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm in mid-November, were sold out as soon as the news was announced.
Sweden's national theater, the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, has commissioned the Congress for Jewish Culture to stage Samuel Beckett's play, "Waiting for Godot" in Yiddish on Novembe…
On Sunday, May 30, a number of renowned singers and actors will perform songs by the great Yiddish poet, Itzik Manger, during an online literary event celebrating 120 years since his birth.
May 30 marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of the great Jewish poet Itzik Manger. To celebrate the holiday, several Jewish organizations in the United States, England and Israel will ho…
This year marks the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. As always, a memorial service is being organized on April 19th to commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
MEGILLAH CYCLE, which premiered last week on YouTube, represents a new frontier for a text with a storied non-virtual history. The play is adapted from the work of Itzik Manger, a poet born …
Beginning February 21, the Congress for Jewish Culture will bring poet Itzik Manger's 1936 poem cycle of the Purim story to your desktop. It may not be the story you're used to. Manger pluck…
After the great success of their online staging of S. Ansky's THE DYBBUK, praised by New York drama critics, the Congress for Jewish Culture will present MEGILLAH CYCLE by Itzik Manger.
For the third time, a program in honor of writer and playwright Sholem Asch is being organized on Wednesday, which falls seven weeks before Easter. This year, that day is Wednesday, February…
James Joyce has "Bloomsday." Robert Burns has "Burns Night." Now Sholem Asch has his own literary celebration as well, "Asch Wednesday." The program, held this year for the third time to coi…
While far too many actors have approached Zoom as if it were a normal stage, this revival of THE DYBBUK plays to the strengths of the medium.
Despite the pandemic, Shane Baker and his international all-star crew of Yiddish actors put on one of the best theatrical productions I've seen since the lights went out on Broadway.
"This is coming out strictly on Blu-Ray," said Allen Lewis Rickman, an actor and Yiddishist who wrote subtitles for nine of the 10 films featured in "The Jewish Soul: Classics of Yiddish Cin…
TEVYE SERVED RAW, the Sholem Aleichem tribute that was a surprise hit in 2018, is returning to the stage this week for a four-performance run that will follow strict social distancing guidel…
Who would've thought that the hottest tickets in town this summer of 2018 would be for two shows adapting the stories of the great Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem?
