Dr. Nahshon’s 鈥溾�楴ew York鈥檚 Yiddish Theater鈥� Explores a Fractious Heritage of Melodrama and Musicals”
“A DEFINITE if wobbly line connects the Yiddish theater of 19th-century Eastern Europe and the Lower East Side to the giants of modern American entertainment. It traces a long road from the ghettos and shtetls to Broadway and Hollywood and the likes of Marlon Brando and Barbra Streisand.
That connection is a major theme of that opened this week at the . With 250 posters, playbills, photographs, film clips, set designs, costumes and other artifacts, it shows how what began as traveling troupes performing for poor Jewish audiences in Europe turned into a major New York entertainment center that provided a vital escape for the Lower East Side鈥檚 sweatshop workers and pushcart peddlers at the start of the 20th century.”
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