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VIRTUAL TALK | Yiddish Theater as a Cultural Lifeline during the Holocaust, with Debra Caplan | Thursday, December 7 @ 7 p.m. ET
Debra Caplan
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VIRTUAL TALK | Yiddish Theater as a Cultural Lifeline during the Holocaust, with Debra Caplan | Thursday, December 7 @ 7 p.m. ET
Featuring: Debra Caplan
On the eve of World War II, Poland was the epicenter of the global Yiddish theater scene. Yiddish theater continued to be performed during the war years in ghettos and concentration camps and then, in the war’s immediate aftermath, in displaced persons camps. Professor Debra Caplan will explore how Yiddish theater offered a cultural lifeline and psychological escape hatch for Jews during the Holocaust, as well as how plays and performances helped survivors to find community and rebuild their lives in the DP camps.
This event took place on December 07, 2023. It was presented online by the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA.
This recording was digitized and added to the library in December 2023.
This recording is in English
