Yiddish
Theatre Forum [YTF]
Joel
Berkowitz, Editor <yankl@albany.edu>
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Contents of
Vol. 03.004
1) Your tshuves to readers’ shayles (Joel
Berkowitz)
2) Uriel Acosta (Miriam Isaacs)
3) Yiddish
theatre in
4) The Jewish
King Lear (Ruth Gay and Sophie Glazer)
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Date:
From: Joel Berkowitz <yankl@albany.edu>
Subject: Your tshuves
to readers’ shayles
The fact that the YTF is under Mendele’s umbrella sometimes causes some confusion as to
where to send responses to questions posted here. Please send them directly to me at the above
email address. I will be happy to post
them in the subsequent issue.
2)------------------------------------------------------
Date:
From: Miriam Isaacs <misaacs@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Uriel Acosta
Karl Guzkow's _Uriel Acosta_ was a favorite of Jacob Adler--his _Hamlet_,
so to speak. I would appreciate information
any readers might have about how the title character and the rabbinic
establishment he confronted were portrayed on the Yiddish stage--as opposed to,
say, the Russian or German.
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Date:
From: Polina Olsen
<Polina-Olsen@comcast.net>
Subject: Yiddish theatre in
In about 1935 a Yiddish theatre troupe from
several times. The director's name sounds like Dubin, and his wife was part
of the cast. I'm writing an Oral History on a gentleman who briefly worked
as an accompanist for this theatre troupe.
I would be grateful for any information about this director and/or this
troupe.
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Date:
From: Ruth Gay <ruthgay1@verizon.net> and
Sophie Glazer
<Sophieglazer@aol.com>
Subject: The Jewish King Lear
For a translation of Jacob Gordin's
Jewish King Lear, we would be grateful for information about early and
variant texts of the play. Any unpublished accounts of early performances, or
letters from Jacob Gordin, would also be very
welcome.
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End of Yiddish
Theatre Forum 03.004
Yiddish Theatre Forum
Joel Berkowitz, Editor
Leonard Prager, Senior Adviser
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