“Yiddish Theatre in the Digital Age”

Scholars participating in the first meeting of the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project, a three-day workshop held at the end of March at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, presented a public program on this topic on March 27. Participating were (from left): Aaron Rubinstein (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Francesco Spagnolo (University of California, Berkeley), Michael Steinlauf (Gratz College), Debra Caplan (City University of New York), David Mazower (author of “Yiddish Theatre in London”), Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel (New York Public Library), Barbara Henry (University of Washington), Zachary Baker (Stanford University Libraries), Faith Jones (graduate student at the University of British Columbia) and Joel Berkowitz (director of the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at UWM). Photo provided by Shelley Dyrda/Stahl Center.