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  • The Yiddish Theater

    STEFAN KANFER is the young author of an off-Broadway musical and several short stories and articles. The Yiddish theater is, literally, in his blood. His great-grandfather was in Abraham Goldfaden's first Yiddish theater troupe in Iasi, Romania, and his grandfather was the author of Yiddish plays produced in Europe and America.

  • Oy Vey: Yiddish Has a Problem

    The language is mostly spoken by Orthodox Jews who want to set themselves apart from the modern world. Is there a future for Yiddish in other communities?