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The Adventures of Mottel the Cantor's Son is a humorous early 20th-century novel by Sholem Aleichem about a mischievous Jewish boy navigating poverty and emigration in Russia.
Wandering Stars is Sholem Aleichem's Yiddish picaresque theatre novel, serialized in 1909-1911, following shtetl performers to America.
Amid Falling Walls is a Yiddish and English revue from National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, created by Avram and Zalmen Mlotek and named Drama Desk's 2024 Outstanding Revue.
The Golden Bride is a 1923 Yiddish operetta by Joseph Rumshinsky, premiered at Kessler's Second Avenue Theater and revived by Folksbiene in 2015.
Leo Rosten was an American writer and lexicographer best known for The Joys of Yiddish, a 1968 guide to Yiddish words in American English.
