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Debra Caplan

Debra Caplan is Associate Professor of Theater at Baruch College, City University of New York. Her book, Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy (University of Michigan Press, 2018), won the George Freedley Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association. Her work on Yiddish theater and performance has appeared in Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Comparative Drama, Aschkenaz, Pakn Treger, In Geveb: A Journal of Jewish Studies, American Theatre Magazine, and New England Theatre Journal.

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Yiddish Musical Theater in the United States

Jewish women on stage in America took on a variety of musical roles and performed all kinds of songs, including religious hymns and liturgical chants. In its heyday, the Yiddish stage mirrored American Jewish life. An amazing range of women’s woes were highlighted, discussed, and often resolved across the footlights, presenting the reality that immigrant women faced to an extent not paralleled in the English-language theatrical world during those years.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Debra Caplan." (Viewed on December 21, 2024) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/caplan-debra>.