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Anglo-Jewish Lit | Drama | Film | Theatre
RIP Peter Shaffer
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Joseph Kessler’s Pavillion Theatre
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…
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Wot? No Fish!! Guadian Review
This is a show about love that has been made with love. A few years back,Danny Braverman‘s mother gave him some shoeboxes that had belonged to his great uncle Ab Solomons. Inside the boxes were hundreds of wage packets with doodles that shoemaker Ab had drawn on them. Every Thursday – from 1926, when they…
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Ron Moody Dies
Ron Moody, Actor Best Known as Fagin in ‘Oliver!,’ Dies at 91 http://nyti.ms/1FVcZ7C Dickens’s Fagin, a Jew, has often been perceived as an anti-Semitic characterization, but Mr. Moody, who was also Jewish, steered clear of stereotype. “Although Dickens describes Fagin as a merry old Jew, there’s no sign of him being a Jew in his…
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Three on a Match – The New Yorker
“Harold Pinter’s artistic vision focussed less on love than on the con. Born in 1930, Pinter grew up Jewish in modest circumstances in London’s East End, the beloved only child of hardworking parents, whose own forebears had emigrated to escape the pogroms in Poland and Russia at the turn of the last century. In 1939,…
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Ari Roth, Director of Jewish Theater, Is Fired
By MICHAEL PAULSON, DEC. 19, 2014 A prominent but polarizing director of Jewish theater has been fired from his longtime perch at the Jewish Community Center in Washington after several productions that raised challenging questions about Israel. Ari Roth, a 53-year-old playwright who had served as artistic director of the Jewish Community Center’s Theater for…
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Transport London Bans Bad Jews Poster
This is an extraordinary story, that in the wake Charlie Hebdo and the idea of free exchange of ideas, is absurd. There is a play called Bad Jews that is going to open at the Arts Theatre, right in the heart of the theatre district, right by Leicester Square tube, posters are all over the…
