... burlesque performers of the Jewish persuasion! Minnie Tonka and Darlinda Just Darlinda are long lost sisters that found each other while tracing the roots of Yiddish Theater and Vaudeville. Inspired by the Barry Sisters and Rock n' Roll these ladies can cut a rug!They've been livin' it up on ...

... burlesque performers of the Jewish persuasion! Minnie Tonka and Darlinda Just Darlinda are long lost sisters that found each other while tracing the roots of Yiddish Theater and Vaudeville. Inspired by the Barry Sisters and Rock n' Roll these ladies can cut a rug!They've been livin' it up on ...

Tamevate Kapelye on Eldridge Street

... welcome. Tickets are extremely affordable. ($15 / $12). Tamevate Kapelye got together after the successful show "Gimpel the Fool" at the National Yiddish Theater - Folksbiene, 2008. The band members are: Dmitri Slepovitch, clarinet, vocals; Joshua Camp, accordion, Craig Judelman, violin, Jonti Siman, contrabass

This Weekend's Excellent Events

... this! 1920’s European Cabaret! Vintage Americana! Balkan Belly Dance! Neo-Classical Opera! Old World Yiddish Theater! Welcome to the six-piece, Portland, Oregon-based Vagabond Opera. "The Vagabond Opera brings you...: Friday The Tiger Lillies Twentieth Anniversary Rout at the Moore Theater . "With an international reputation for being the foremost avant-garde ...

Giving Up The Safety Net

... cameo. The other best part of the movie is exiting the movie theater and experiencing the full frontal assault of the Zombie World we live in. ... movies ever made. The movie opens with a fifteen minute scene in Yiddish, and the entire movie hones in on the Jewish culture of this family..... Okay, that’s it for movies I’ve seen in the movie theater. I have a bunch of DVDs I’ve watched and books I’ve ...

Yiddish poem by Yosef Kerler אַ ניגונדל צווישן די ציין

...the many poems written by Yosef Kerler in the Soviet jails and in the labor camps of Vorkuta in the first half of the 1950s. Read by the author, recorded by the Yiddish poet and theater and culture champion, Dovid Shvartzman (later: Shav-Artsa) in Kesenev (Chisinau) in the early 19960s.

As soon as we turned our backs on the train, it ceased to exist

... off on calling down the wrath of Tengri and Angela Carter just yet. It's hilarious and otherworldly, stylized and documentary, full of old ritual and Yiddish theater standards, and while I have read stories and poems like it, I've never seen anything comparable on a screen. I loved it very much. ...

Giving you all what you want! A Neil Simon Post! Awww, yeaaah.

... to feel nostalgic for the popular theater he once dominated. For better and ... their audience on a level that theater almost never does anymore. Simon’s ...of her waffling, runs through the theater hollering, “My mother loved it!” ...Mary Tyler Moore sobbing from the theater. Did this playwright ever notice other...Pure affection for the rhythm of Yiddish-inflected English. Brighton Beach Memoirs/ ...

Company of Angels Turns 50 (And celebrates with its first director, Leonard Nimoy)

... the city’s first professional theater, the Orchard Gables Repertory Theatre,... Trek, Nimoy continued to do theater around L.A. and occasionally ... Nimoy, who reads and speaks Yiddish, acted in a production of ... Schwartz, founder of the Yiddish Art Theater, in New York. The ... Civic Playhouse, a now-defunct theater north of the Coronet, on ... making this into a working theater.” That was the beginning of ...

"How to be an Arab"

.... Under no circumstances call it a casbah. Visit the neighborhood library at least once a week. Go to the theater once a month. If you really want to fit in, you have to attend a lecture once every two ... there is no need to. Do not swear in Arabic. For your info, Arabs curse each other in Yiddish only. But still, be aware that only you confuse the letters het and khaf. Never use the word hamula (...