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October 19, 2021 by Joel Berkowitz

Joel Berkowitz: Nahma, mazl-tov on the publication of your new anthology, Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance (SUNY Press, 2021). Even before turning to page one, I’m struck by the title.

Why do you specify those two activities, reading and performance, right off the bat?

Nahma Sandrow: I’m hoping that these plays will be staged, by professionals or amateurs.

Nahma Sandrow: I'm hoping that these plays will be staged, by professionals or amateurs.

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Nahma Sandrow, a professor at City University of New York, wrote Kuni-Leml and Vagabond Stars, prize-winning off-Broadway musicals based on Yiddish theater.

Nahma Sandrow, City University of New York: 45 Followers, 8 Following, 18 Research papers.

Nahma Sandrow, professor, translator, and theater historian, was interviewed by Christa P. Whitney on July 6, (remotely) in New York, New York.

Maybe because I myself have written plays and a libretto—most of them taking off from source material, but becoming in the process distinctly my own—I feel for all playwrights whose plays are silent. All those Yiddish scripts crumbling in archives!

It is a vivid fantasy to me—I really imagine it—that the dead playwrights are begging me to help put their creations on stage, live, the way they wished for, the way plays are supposed to be.

That hope definitely affected my translation choices.

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