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Pence’s Dybbuk

A SHORT PLAY by Joel Schechter [Note: On February 22, Vice President Mike Pence visited a Jewish cemetery near St. Louis where gravestones had been desecrated. He helped a community group restore the headstones. The rest of the story is told here for the first time.] Trump: I’m sending you to Missouri on a special […]

Jewish Ghosts in Poland

by Ralph Seliger POLAND IS HAUNTED by the Holocaust and the very charged history of Polish-Jewish relations. This is metaphorically dramatized in Demon, a modern-day adaptation of the dybbuk legend, made famous in a variety of literary and dramatic versions (most notably in Sh. An-ski’s oft-produced Yiddish play, The Dybbuk), in which a dead person’s […]

June 15: Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish Art Theater

A giant of the Yiddish theater as an actor, director, and producer, Maurice Schwartz was born in the Ukraine on this date in 1889. He came to the U.S. at the age of 12 and discovered the Yiddish theater, which was thriving in New York. Schwartz worked for several years as an itinerant actor before […]

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