It was drawn from a tragedy that occurred on a cold night in January 1887 at the Hebrew Dramatic Club of London and took the lives of 17 people. Former President Trump’s impeachment defense team ...

With her latest project, “The Ballad of Mauthausen,” Dutch Yiddish singer Niki Jacobs has pulled off the seemingly impossible: She has recast the song cycle of the same name by Greek composer Mikis ...

(JTA) — Two important cultural institutions that celebrate the mamaloshen — the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene and the Congress for Jewish Culture — are each offering an online gift for Hanukkah.

One of the only known pre-Holocaust Yiddish operas performed in Europe had a rather shabby debut. When it premiered May 24, 1924, at Warsaw’s Kaminsky Theatre, its composer, Henech Kon, had to ...

As part of this year's Ashkenaz Festival at Harbourfront Centre (Aug. 30 to Sept. 5), a Yiddish production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (Toyt Fun a Seylsman) will be presented with English ...

A view of the Royal Dramatic Theater building in StockholmW. Buss/Getty Images Actors in this weekend’s production of “Waiting for Godot” at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm performed neither ...

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