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"The Adventures of Mottel the Cantor's Son" is a humorous novel written by Sholem Aleichem in the early 20th century. The story is narrated by Mottel, a mischievous young Jewish boy whose father has recently died, leaving the family in poverty. Written in Yiddish, the novel details the family's dail...
"Wandering Stars" is a Yiddish-language novel written by the author Sholem Aleichem, originally serialized between 1909 and 1911. The narrative follows the lives of two young performers from an Eastern European shtetl who are recruited into a traveling theatrical troupe, eventually separating and im...
"Amid Falling Walls" is a musical revue presented by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, created by Avram and Zalmen Mlotek. The production explores the history of the Holocaust through Yiddish songs that were written and performed in ghettos and concentration camps. Performed in Yiddish with E...
The Golden Bride is a Yiddish-language operetta featuring music by Joseph Rumshinsky and a libretto by Louis Gilrod. Premiering in 1923 at Kessler's Second Avenue Theater in New York, it became a successful work of the Second Avenue Yiddish theater district. The narrative follows a young Russian-Jew...
Leo Rosten was an American writer and lexicographer best known for The Joys of Yiddish, a 1968 guide to Yiddish words in American English.
