06/30/2025
Zehavit Stern reviews Alyssa Quint and Amanda Miryem-Khaye Siegel, eds. Women on the Yiddish Stage:
"Yiddish culture is often perceived as marginal—at least from outside the shifting borders of “Yiddishland.” Within this already marginal field, Yiddish theatre occupies an even more peripheral space: the margins of the marginal. What happens, then, when we introduce a gendered lens, and examine women’s roles—and their historical silencing—within the Yiddish theatre?... As Women on the Yiddish Stage makes clear, women were not peripheral figures but central players in the making of Yiddish cultural life. Their stories, whether told through archival fragments, recovered memoirs, or close readings of performance, call for a more inclusive and accurate understanding—one in which actresses are not merely remembered for their presence onstage, but recognized for their lasting cultural impact."
https://ingeveb.org/articles/women-on-the-yiddish-stage