Toyt Fun A Seylsman NYR’s Drama Desk nominated production. Moshe Yassurs”s brilliant direction embodied Arthur Miller’s original conceptualization of this play as a vision playing out in Willy Loman’s s skull. Nominated for best revival and...
From left to right: Ronit Asheri, Moshe Lobel, Lea Kalisch, David Mandelbaum and Eli Rosen. (Photo: Pedro Hernandez) Awake And Sing “A heartbreaking and gorgeous Yiddish version of the classic American play that wrestles with economic disparity in...
Caraid O’Brien on Yiddish theatre’s influence on Ionesco. The photo is from our production of “Rhinoceros.” Caraid was absolutely hilarious in the role of Mrs. Boeuf. She also appeared in both NYR productions of “God Of Vengeance,”...
Moshe Yassur on Ionesco Moshe Yassur directed our production of Rhinoceros and throughout his long career had occasion to meet and work with Ionesco on more than one occasion. At an early rehearsal he reveals to the cast Ionesco’s view on theater of the absurd....
Moshe Yassur on the future of Yiddish theater Moshe Yassur is is a Yiddish theater national treasure. For NYR he directed the ground breaking Yiddish world premiere of “Waiting For Godot,” the drama desk nominated “Toyt Fun A Seylsman,”...
Interview With The Yiddish/Chasidish guru of “Unorthodox” “As a corporate lawyer stuck in an unhappy and unfulfilling environment, I felt that my creative soul was dying. David believed in me and gave me my first break. And my second. And my third. And...
Take Away Spring Gera Sandler put to gether this memorial of the Warsaw ghetto uprising using Zvi Kolitz’s “Yosl Rakover Speaks To God “interspersed with song and poetry, From left to right: Macha Fogel, Eli Rosen, Gera Sandler, David Mandelbaum, Amy...
a new play in yinglish by Melissa Weisz and Malky Goldman Melissa and Malky talk about the journey they took in creating this important drama about one woman’s struggle for the right to reunite with her children.By forcing the women in her family to face their demons...
A concengtragtion camp that sheltered Jews from all over Europe. I asked an Italian journalist from Calabria to write up this article for Yom Hashoa. Here is the story she sent in. Ferramonti Camp: a history of peaceful coexistence in Calabria, during the Second...
My grandmother was a child of war and terror. As a young child in 1940’s Jerusalem, first under Ottoman Rule, then under the British Mandate she was kept indoors and hidden from sight. She was my great-grandmother’s miracle baby and my great-grandparents did...
