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Yiddish theatre, Franz Kafka and art movements of the 20th century

by Charlotte Hafner, ARSP Volunteer Yiddish theatre groups have been touring through Eastern Europe between about 1890 and 1933. However, the heightened discrimination and antisemitism in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century, often accompanied by violent pogroms against Jewish people, made life quite difficult for many of […]

Pitch Up: Community Voices – Katie Power

Harry Ariel of the Yiddish Theatre

Learn more about Yiddish Theatre Star, Harry Ariel.

Yiddish Typewriter

Yiddish typewriter belonged to the playwright Abish Meisels a central figure in the New Yiddish Theatre in Adler Street as a playwright and prompter.

Pitch Up: Community Voices – Making & Remaking the Jewish East End

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Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?

8 November 2019 – 1 March 2020 jewishmuseum.org.uk / @jewishmuseumLDN “In the condition of terrorised vulnerability and politically menaced radicalised identity….Salomon contemplated taking her own life… Instead, however, she created one of the most challenging, enigmatic and demanding artworks of the twentieth century”. Griselda Pollock in: Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory, published by […]

Secrets of the London Yiddish Stage- SOLD OUT

Tonight’s performance of The Secrets of Yiddish Theatre is sold out. Due to popularity, there is limited seating and standing room. Doors open at 6.30pm and ticketholders are advised to arrive at this time. Places are allocated on a first come first served basis. Please be aware we may reluctantly have to turn you away if we reach our safety capacity before you arrive.

A rehearsed reading with musical interludes of gems from London’s East-End Yiddish theatre of the turn of the twentieth century.

Obscuratorial Finds – Why do we have so many…?

by Alice Quine, Curatorial Assistant From the late 19th century a large influx of Jewish immigrants settled in the East End of London, bringing with them a wide variety of customs and activities. This included the very popular establishment of Yiddish theatre, whose use of the home dialect and relatable themes such as assimilation and poverty […]

The London Yiddish Choir is at the Museum – come join us!

by Robin Rubenstein, Guest Blogger This story begins like a Jewish joke: an Irish Jew, a Russian Jew and an American Jew meet in a hall in West London… In June 2009, I attended Shivaun Woolfson’s extraordinary exhibition “Surviving History: Portraits from Vilna” at Spiro Ark. The multi-media presentation included film, artefacts, and moving testimony […]

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The Tsenerene

Discover more about the Tsenerene, one of the most popular and influential Yiddish literary works to emerge in the Middle Ages

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