Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance by Nahma Sandrow Yiddish Learning They paint a sometimes hilarious

They paint a sometimes hilarious

and the prejudice she overcame to reach the pinnacle of her field as the second woman to ascend to the country’s highest court

from Adam to Moses

their writing challenged the social hierarchies that excluded them as women and as Jews

Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance by Nahma Sandrow Yiddish Learning They paint a sometimes hilariousCollection of three stageworthy Yiddish plays and ten stand alone scenes, from drama to slapstick, from realism to fantasy, with directors notes, playing histories, and other guides to successful English language performance. Brief lively notes put the plays in context of modern western theater and modern Jewish history. How is this book different from all other Yiddish play anthologies? Approaches Yiddish plays without apology as theater, not as