Unit 1
Landmark Yiddish Plays by Joel Berkowitz and Jeremy Dauber
The Purim Anthology by Philip Goldman
Rewriting Russia Jacob Gordin’s Yiddish Drama by Barbara Henry
The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater: Avrom Goldfaden and the Jewish Stage by Alyssa Quint
Unit 2
The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution by Benjamin Harshav
In search of milk and honey: the theater of "Soviet Jewish Statehood" (1934-49) by Ber Boris Kotlerman
Yiddish Theater in London by David Mazower
The Detroit Yiddish Theater, 1920 to 1937 by James Miller
New York’s Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway ed. Edna Nahshon
The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage by Jeffrey Veidlinger
Unit 3
Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy by Debra Caplan
Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the ARTEF, 1925- 1940 by Edna Nahshon
“Modicut Puppet Theatre: Modernism, Satire, and Yiddish Culture." by Edward Portnoy
Tenement Songs: The Popular Songs of Jewish Immigrants by Mark Slobin
Unit 4
On Stage, Off Stage: Memories of a Lifetime in the Yiddish Theatre by Luba Kadison
My Life, My Theater by Ida Kaminska
Tales of the Yiddish Rialto: Reminicences of Playwrights and Players in New York’s Jewish Theater in the Early 1900s by Louis Lipsky
Molly!: An Autobiography by Molly Picon
Bei Mir Bistu Schon: The Life of Sholem Secunda by Victoria Secunda
Der Payatz : Around the World with Yiddish Theater by Herman Yablokoffs
Unit 5
Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage by Joel Berkowitz
Nostalgia in Jewish-American Theatre and Film, 1979-2004 by Ben Furnish
Visions, Images, and Dreams: Yiddish Films, Past and Present by Eric Goldman
A Bridge of Light: Yiddish Films Between Two Worlds by J. Hoberman
The Theater Art of Boris Aronson by Rich, Frank, and Lisa Aronson
General Resource Recommendations
Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage: Essays on Drama, Performance, and Show Business by Joel Berkowitz
Jewish Theatre: A Global View by Edna Nahshon
Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theatre by Nahma Sandrow
A Tale of Two Museums: Ester Rachel Kaminska Theater Museum Collection