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Nostalgia At Its Best
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Folksbiene's celebration of Yiddish Theater is brings back the good old days.
Nostalgia gets a bad rap these days. Playing on memory is considered sentimental, syrupy, a cheap shot at the emotions.
But I like nostalgia, especially good nostalgia, and "On Second Avenue," the new production by the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater, is nostalgia at its best. The musical celebrates the heyday of Yiddish theater in America, a time when Second Avenue was the Yiddish Great White Way. In Yiddi...
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Giving Second Avenue Its Due; New East Village arts group celebrates neighborhood legacy but leaves Yiddish theater stars out of the party.
The Jewish Week
; Think of the East Village, and the names Charlie Parker, Allen Ginsburg and even Emma Goldman come to mind. At least to the mind of Philip Hartman, a filmmaker and restaurateur who recently founded the Federation of East Village Artists "to honor the historic role of the East Village as the cradle
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Nostalgia At Its Best
The New York Jewish Week
; Folksbiene's celebration of Yiddish Theater is brings back the good old days. Nostalgia gets a bad rap these days. Playing on memory is considered sentimental, syrupy, a cheap shot at the emotions. But I like nostalgia, especially good nostalgia, and "On Second Avenue," the new production by the
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The joy of Yiddish theater
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; 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
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A WALK DOWN SECOND AVENUE
Forward
; Morris, David Forward 02-25-2005 The great Yiddish theater that existed in the early 20th century came back to life this week. The Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre's newly opened off-Broadway revival of "On Second Avenue," Zalmen Mlotek and Moishe Rosenfeld's musical revue, takes a historical look at
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Blending Comedy and Homage
Forward
; Hoffman, Wayne Forward 04-01-2005 With his innate ability to hold an audience in the palm of his hand, Mike Burstyn could be a star in any language. He could sing a song in Sanskrit and still bring people to tears. He could crack a joke in total gibberish and still nail the punch line. Fortunately
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Dora Wasserman, 84; Started Yiddish Theater
The New York Jewish Week
; Dora Wasserman, a native of Ukraine who immigrated to Montreal after World War II and established Canada's first Yiddish theater, died Dec. 15 in Montreal. She was 84. Mrs. Wasserman, who was invested as a member of the Order of Canada in 1992 and the Order of Quebec last October, was known for her
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The new face of Yiddish theater
Jerusalem Post
; KELLY HARTOG Jerusalem Post 09-07-2005 Headline: The new face of Yiddish theater Byline: KELLY HARTOG Edition; Daily Section: Arts Page: 24 Wednesday, September 7, 2005 -- In an up-market area of the Beverly/Fairfax district of Los Angeles, a trendy cafe is packed with lunch hour patrons and would
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Give My Regards To Second Avenue
The New York Jewish Week
; Give My Regards To Second Avenue Stefan Kanfer's "Stardust Lost" captures the heyday of New York's Yiddish theater. The Caf Royal was the Sardi's of second Avenue, where Yiddish showpeople hung out and gossiped and favored their tea in a glass. Well-known actors in flamboyant dress enjoyed making
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Hey, Look Him Over; Cy Coleman takes on the Yiddish stage with 'Great Ostrovsky'
Jewish Exponent
; Elkin, Michael Jewish Exponent 03-04-2004 It wasn't just anybody who discovered that kid-cum-composer Cy Coleman was the cream of the crop. "It was my milkman," says Coleman. And how that cream always rises to the top; it's been Tony Awards and tony projects over the past 70-some years since "our
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The Last Professional Yiddish Theater Looks Ahead; A Staged Reading Closes One Season as a Gala Event Opens the Next
Forward
; Leon Kobrin's classic Yiddish play "The Girl Next Door" ("Di Nekstdorike") revolves around the question: Who would make a better wife -- an observant and modest, pretty shtetl girl or a sleazy, shameful adulteress who pretends to be an American "lady"? It seems that for poor Velvele, the choice is
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