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The joy of Yiddish theater
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BRIAN ABERBACK, STAFF WRITER
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
04-05-2005
The joy of Yiddish theater -- Teaneck man's mission: keeping the language alive
By BRIAN ABERBACK, STAFF WRITER
Date: 04-05-2005, Tuesday
Section: LOCAL
Edtion: All Editions
Biographical: ZALMEN MLOTEK
The lights dimmed in the small theater on Manhattan's Upper West Side and the orchestra launched into a spirited klezmer melody, transporting the audience to another time and place: Second Avenue in turn-of-the-century Greenwich Village.
It was a time when more than a dozen Yiddish theaters stood in the East Village, competing ...
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