Performances Begin Tomorrow for THE ESSENCE at Theatre 154
by Stephi Wild - Jan 6, 2025
Performances will begin tomorrow for THE ESSENCE: A YIDDISH THEATRE DIM SUM, a fast-paced comedy which has been playing to sellout crowds for over a decade throughout the Northeast and Europe as well as at the NY International Fringe Festival.
Photos: BASHEVIS'S DEMONS At Theatre 154
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 10, 2024
New photos have been released of BASHEVIS’S DEMONS, which comprises three short stories by legendary Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer and will be presented Off-Broadway direct from engagements in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.
BASHEVIS'S DEMONS To Be Presented At Out of the Box Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 26, 2024
BASHEVIS'S DEMONS, which debuted in Stockholm in December 2023, will make its official Off-Broadway bow at Out of the Box Theatre, 154 Christopher Street (between Greenwich & Washington Streets), with performances beginning December 18th and running through January 5th.
Photos: Inside NYC's Annual Commemoration Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
by A.A. Cristi - May 2, 2024
Each April 19th, the Congress for Jewish Culture, along with Friends of the Bund, Jewish Labor Committee and Workers Circle, has organized a gathering of musicians, academics, and survivors and their families at ‘Der Shteyn’ (the stone) in the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Plaza in Riverside Park, (83rd/84th Streets). See photos from the event.
New Congress for Jewish Culture Website Surpasses One Million Views
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 25, 2023
Read about the success of the Congress for Jewish Culture's revamped website, which has surpassed one million views with its translation of the LEKSIKON FUN DER NAYER YIDISHER LITERATUR (BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF MODERN YIDDISH LITERATURE).
'Night Of The Murdered Poets' Commemoration Set For This Thursday Evening At The Wild Project
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 9, 2023
On the night of August 12, 1952, 13 Jewish writers, artists, journalists, and scientists were executed by a firing squad in Moscow's infamous Lubyanka prison after years of confinement and torture to extract false confessions of treason and espionage. This mass execution, which would become known as the “Night of the Murdered Poets,” was one of Joseph Stalin's last crimes before his death six months later.
'Night Of The Murdered Poets' Commemoration Set For August 10 At The Wild Project
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 21, 2023
On the night of August 12, 1952, 13 Jewish writers, artists, journalists, and scientists were executed by a firing squad in Moscow's infamous Lubyanka prison after years of confinement and torture to extract false confessions of treason and espionage. This mass execution, which would become known as the “Night of the Murdered Poets,” was one of Joseph Stalin's last crimes before his death six months later.
Actors, Authors, and Speakers Will Appear at Tomorrow's Event Marking 80th Anniversary Of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
by Stephi Wild - Apr 18, 2023
Each April 19th, the Congress for Jewish Culture, along with Friends of the Bund, Jewish Labor Committee and Workers Circle, has organized a gathering of survivors and their families, activists, academics, and musicians at the stone in Riverside Park’s Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Plaza.
YIVO Presents: An Evening Of Yiddish Theater In Translation
by Stephi Wild - Feb 9, 2022
On Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 7:00pm (ET), the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will present An Evening of Yiddish Theater in Translation: Celebrating Nahma Sandrow's 'Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance'.
Photos: Top Swedish Dignitaries Attend American Production of WAITING FOR GODOT
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 22, 2021
Stockholm’s prestigious Royal Dramatic Theatre commissioned America’s Congress for Jewish Culture to present director Moshe Yassur’s critically acclaimed 2013 Off-Broadway Yiddish language staging of WAITING FOR GODOT. The production played to three sold out houses November 13th and 14th.