Detailed discussion of The Matriarch by G. B.Stern from Kate MacDonald on her blog. There is something particularly enjoyable about a female villain in fiction, written for readers who expect women to be pure, perfect, and positive. I did a podcast miniseries in 2012 on jaw-droppingly awful, truly appalling female characters, all behaving badly. It was immense fun…
Performances began at the Pavilion Theatre in Whitechapel in the early 1890s. By 1906 it had become established as the home of Yiddish theatre in London, and remained popular into the mid-1930s. Four actor-managers were central to the theatre’s direction and development – Sigmund Feinman, Maurice Moscovitch, Joseph Kessler and Fanny Waxman. The theatre was…
“It’s amazing I have lived so long, after all the drugs that I have taken in my life!” declared Bernard Kops with a certain genial alacrity – speaking now as a sprightly eighty-six year old – when I visited him and his wife of fifty-eight years, Erica, in Finchley last week. Yet once he told…
TV, UK TV Alexander The Greatest (ITV 1971-1972 with Gary Warren and Sydney Tafler) The View 6 Months Ago UK / ITV – ATV / 13×30 minute episodes / Broadcast 15 July 1971 – 31 May 1972 Writer: Bernard Kops / Script Editor: Philip Hinchcliffe / Producer/Director: Shaun O’Riordan Sitcom.Young Jewish schoolboy Alexander Green is…
Bernard Kops’s “The World is a Wedding” (London: Mayflower-Dell, 1966). Not all post-market portraiture is elegant. Kops modified this presentation copy of his autobiography for his friend and colleague Arnold Wesker, whose archive resides at the Ransom Center. Kops removed the original cover and replaced it with the inverted cover torn from a paperback copy…
Kops’ Kids —See the film In an effort to create leaders in Gypsy communities and teach tolerance, we follow famous playwright Bernard Kops to the only high school dedicated specifically to teaching the Roma (gypsies). The students start from the very basics as they learn the play The Dreams of Anne Frank and often frustrate…
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I am very excited to tell everyone I know that for the next year I will be Visiting Scholar at Boston University in The Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies. These last two years have been a period of transition (never Van Morrison‘s best record), and this gives me a real chance to have an…
The Promised Land: Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary British-Jewish Culture.
just linked to a 2011 interview that Kops did for the JC. Secondary Bibliography (Articles About, References To and Reviews) Bernard Kops http://www.thejc.com/arts/arts-interviews/59829/interview-bernard-kops
