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For years academics have been arguing over what makes today’s Russian Jews Jewish. Religion? Language? Yiddishkait? No. Covers, a new production by the Russian-Jewish-American theater group Lost and Found offers an answer to this question: books. Based on personal stories of its young performers and writers, Covers is a multigenerational family drama: immigrant parents worry about their son, whose career climb is […]

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Next time you open a bottle of wine or (pu pu pu) receive a summons, take a close look at the seal.  It may not seem so important, but turns out those little markers can tell us quite a bit about power and privilege—not just in our time, but in ancient times as well. One […]

If you thought Waiting for Godot was weird in English, try watching it in Yiddish. And thanks to a partnership between the New Yiddish Rep and the Castillo Theatre, now you can. Godot seems perfectly at home in Shane Baker’s fluid and idiomatic Yiddish translation. But for those of us who aren’t fluent, there’s no need to worry, as there are […]

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