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Yiddish Translator Nahma Sandrow Talks About Bringing a 19th-Century Masterpiece to a Modern English-Speaking Audience by Ravelle Brickman

It took a little over 120 years. But"thanks to Theater J"Jacob Gordin's wildly popular Yiddish drama, celebrated as The Jewish Queen Lear, has made it onto the English-language stage. The play, whose official title is Mirele Efros, is a tale of a parent scorned. In this telling, the Lear of the popular title is a […] The post Yiddish Translator Nahma Sandrow Talks About Bringing a 19th-Century Masterpiece to a Mode…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:57PM on March 18, 2019

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