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The Fascinating Yiddish Origins of “Death of a Salesman”

Linda Loman’s famous speech in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman demands that “attention must be paid” to a man like her husband Willy. In the New Yiddish Rep’s new staging of Miller’s 1949 classic (at NYC’s Castillo Theater through November 22), we see much more clearly what, exactly, we should pay attention to. […]

Surf Music + Klezmer = This Groundbreaking Yiddish Fiddler

Michael Alpert is not interested in nostalgia. An architect of the what some like to call the klezmer revival, his influences come directly from pre-World War II Ashkenazi Jewish traditions, but also from the surf music and mariachi he grew up listening to in California. Now that he’s being presented with the National Endowment for […]