As queerness is increasingly persecuted in the United States, Yiddish culture has been my refuge: a culture with no country that is well-suited for people being rejected by theirs.
In Hebrew, Yiddish humor has found a different creativity. But within it, the castigation of hypocrisy and the sardonic wit, evolved and different, still sparkle.
Defining Jewish humor, Israeli humor, Yiddish humor, and where they differ and overlap.
It has taken more than a century for the Wandering Stars to make it into bona-fide theatrical form, but the Jerusalem-based Encore Educational Theatre Company is doing just that.
The cafe said in a statement published on its website that members of its collective were suffering from “burnout” due to the stresses of “struggling under capitalism and kyriarchy."
Who was Anatoly Kaplan and why has he been honored with this retrospective in a city he would never get to visit?
I recently interviewed Zalmen in New York about his life, upbringing and career that he has been so passionate about his whole life.
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