Not content to stage one opera this summer, TodiMusicFest will offer three. The lineup – grand opera, rock opera and jazz opera – may be stretching the definition of this musical genre. But this ...
It’s not every day, even in New York City, that Yiddish enthusiasts can see a live, fully-staged performance of an opera about Yiddish. “Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language” set design by Michael ...
Most of us can relate to having unfinished projects. Imagine dedicating 25 years of your life to creating an all-encompassing dictionary — yet, never getting past the first letter. This is the story ...
Opera, like sweetbreads or Jerry Lewis movies, is an acquired taste that a lot of people never acquire. There isn’t much middle ground. Opera is either felt to be one of civilization’s most ennobling ...
In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...
Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. It’s not every day, even in New York ...
To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews. In the hallways of New York’s YIVO ...
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