Rokhl Kafrissen is a New York-based cultural critic and playwright.
Rokhl’s Golden City: Two tales of Jewish immigration on film
Rokhl’s Golden City: Poet Irena Klepfisz has carved out a literary world between languages and subcultures
Rokhl’s Golden City: Angela Lansbury’s forgotten 1996 made-for-television movie ‘Mrs. Santa Claus’ is a big, gay, pro-union holiday extravaganza
Rokhl’s Golden City: Vocalist Adrienne Cooper united the fractious Yiddish world
Rokhl’s Golden City: Remembering mentalist Max Maven
Rokhl’s Golden City: Context and subtext about gender in Yiddish theater
Rokhl’s Golden City: Multiple versions of the spooky story—the good, the bad, and the drek
Rokhl’s Golden City: Why Yiddish black metal is the perfect music for Yom Kippur
Rokhl’s Golden City: The companies that keep Jewish music in production
Rokhl’s Golden City: Jeremiah Lockwood and the revival of traditional cantorial music
Rokhl’s Golden City: The troubled family life of Régine—a French singer, disco mogul, and a pioneering disc jockey
Rokhl’s Golden City: Young people get organized in Yiddishland
Rokhl’s Golden City: The music of Polish singer-songwriter Maria Ka
Rokhl’s Golden City: The story of German sex researcher Magnus Hirschfeld, an early activist for gay rights and founder of a clinic performing gender-affirming surgeries a full century ago, before the Nazis targeted him and his work
Rokhl’s Golden City: The season’s Yiddish music roundup
Rokhl’s Golden City: Tracing two stories of wartime heroism in Warsaw
Rokhl’s Golden City: Pulling the Yiddish threads of the cannabis story
Rokhl’s Golden City: A new look at the story behind one of the quirkiest Yiddish reference books
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