The Books of Doom, II: Last Days of Byten by Sarah C. Schack Last month, in the first half of this two-part article on the yizkor (memorial) books—the privately printed volumes compiled by…
The Books of Doom: Life and Death of the Shtetl by Sarah C. Schack The starkest, most vivid accounts of the Nazi slaughter of Jewish communities are to be found in the hundreds of…
On the Horizon: And Now–Yinglish on Broadway by Sarah C. Schack FOR years they've been comin' 'round The Mountains (Catskill)-those Jewish storytellers, mimics, singers-to entertain the overfed guests with numbers not…
1,001 Nights in the Yiddish Theater:From Goldfaden to Thomashefsky by Sarah C. Schack IN THE summer of 1882, the first performance of a Yiddish play in this country -Abraham Goldfaden's Koldunya, sometimes titled…
What’s Cooking in Tel Aviv: There’s Always Lebeniah by Sarah C. Schack ISRAELI canned gefilte fish is good, its chocolate is good, its oranges are famous, even its canned sabras (prickly pears)…