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  • Joel Leffert in The Jewish King Lear.
    Joel Leffert in The Jewish King Lear.
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    A Yiddish ‘King Lear’ for the Ages, on an Empty Stomach

    Rokhl’s Golden City: A superb new production of Jacob Gordin’s Shakespeare adaptation, a dive into the Yiddish folksong archives of proto-ethnomusicologist Ruth Rubin, and a first farewell drag act

    byRokhl Kafrissen
  • Poster for an 1898 production of The Yiddish King Lear.
    Poster for an 1898 production of The Yiddish King Lear.
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    No Yortsayts, Please. We’re Yiddish.

    Rokhl’s Golden City: Why reports of the death of Yiddish theater are greatly exaggerated

    byRokhl Kafrissen
  • Inset image: Still from 'Menashe,'(Courtesy of Mongrel Media)
    Inset image: Still from 'Menashe,'(Courtesy of Mongrel Media)
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    Yiddish Mumblecore

    Rokhl’s Golden City: The ethnographic impulse in Joshua Z. Weinstein’s ‘must-see’ film, Menashe

    byRokhl Kafrissen
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