Thomas Soxberger was born in 1965 in Lower Austria. He moved to Vienna to study History and Jewish Studies. In the early 1990s Thomas participated in Yiddish Summer Programmes in Oxford. 1998-2000 – ...
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James Cagney, the legendary Irish American actor, earned high praise for speaking perfect Yiddish in the 1931 film "Taxi." Cagney's bilingual abilities appear in a scene featuring an increasingly ...
Mamdani took to Yiddish publications to issue an appeal to Haredi voters amid a campaign marked by tensions over Israel and ...
He never saw it coming. Fyvush Finkel, who died Sunday at age 93, had big plans for the future, including an upcoming 94th birthday show at the Metropolitan Room, hopes of seeing “Hamilton” once the ...
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Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe and Russia, was once nearly extinguished. But now Jews drawn to the language for different reasons are keeping Yiddish alive. Before World War II, some ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. No doubt you've seen at least one production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. If you ...
When Jewish prisoners were interned during the Holocaust, the Yiddish language went through a metamorphosis — changing and expanding to include new words about their brutal everyday existence. What ...