This is an announcement of the Emergency Yiddish Broadcasting Network. If you are reading this anywhere on Planet Earth, chances are you are home, maybe even a little bit bored. That dirty, rotten Covid-19 (feh! you shouldn’t know from it!) has closed everything down — even New York’s National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF), which hasn’t missed a season since 1915. And the world has seen much tsuris (trouble) in that amount of time.
With that level of historical understanding, the NYTF’s Artistic Director Zalmen Mlotek is pulling every lever he can to keep bringing Yiddish learning and Yiddish entertainment to the audiences that crave it. And considering what a run the company is having, from “Fiddler on the Roof” to “Hannah Senesh” to “The Sorceress,” it’s no time to slow down.
Full Story (The Times of Israel)
