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Alyssa Quint

Alyssa Quint is associate editor at Tablet Magazine and author of The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater.

  • A studio portrait of a woman thought to be Lena Brown
    A studio portrait of a woman thought to be Lena Brown
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    A Lost Great Yiddish Abortion Play

    After sitting in a drawer for a century, a newly unearthed piece of theater is finally having its moment

    byAlyssa Quint
  • Clockwise from top left: Anarchist and political activist Emma Goldman; Prague-based Talmudist and Kabbalist Jonathan Eybeschutz (1690-1764); Soviet poster to encourage voting, 1924; the painter and graphic designer Henryk Berlev (1894-1967); a diploma from the Sofia Gurevitsh School, 1914
    Clockwise from top left: Anarchist and political activist Emma Goldman; Prague-based Talmudist and Kabbalist Jonathan Eybeschutz (1690-1764); Soviet poster to encourage voting, 1924; the painter and graphic designer Henryk Berlev (1894-1967); a diploma from the Sofia Gurevitsh School, 1914
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    Diving Into the Vilna Collections

    An extraordinary trove of documents, many saved from Nazi and Soviet hands, offers revolutionary access to the Eastern European Jewish past

    byAlyssa Quint
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    The Vilna Collections in Translation

    An in-depth look at several original documents from YIVO’s revolutionary new archive

    byAlyssa Quint
  • Avrom Goldfaden
    Avrom Goldfaden
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    The Accidental Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater

    Its birth owes everything to an unlikely hero, Avrom Goldfaden, and a well-timed war with the Turks

    byAlyssa Quint
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    Mississippi in Yiddish

    The story of a hugely popular play about African Americans falsely accused of raping two white women in 1931 in Scottsboro, Alabama—that premiered in 1935 Warsaw

    byAlyssa Quint
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