In the 1920s, Yiddish was more than just a lingua franca for East European Jewish émigrés; it was also a language of high culture, as demonstrated by a brilliant new book, “Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: ...
The stage lights of the cozy venue brightened as the fair-haired chanteuse, Adrienne Haan, slinked onto the stage attired in a black sparkling jumpsuit with matching heels to begin her show. With a ...
After last year's success with Berlin, Mon Amour, Adrienne Haan brings back to NYC French cabaret singer/dancer Magali Dahan.Aime&Yaguar is their first duo show in which they tell the story of the ...
The brief but lively and productive Berlin period in the history of modern Yiddish culture is a special source of interest for contemporary researchers. Out of a melting pot of various languages, ...
Though little known in the English-speaking world, Erich Kästner’s slim novel originally translated in 1932 as “Fabian. The Story of a Moralist” is a brilliantly astute rendering of life in Weimar ...
The decadence in Berlin between the World Wars lives again on the stage of San Francisco’s Hypnodrome in the Thrillpeddlers’ world-premiere production titled “The Untamed Stage: Weimar Berlin Kabarett ...
Babylon Berlin is a new TV drama set in the artistically rich, if louche, pre-World War II Weimar-era Berlin. With lavish song and dance numbers and a fantastic soundtrack, it quickly became a hit in ...
“A Day of Weimar: Three Illustrated Lectures on Sex and the Occult in Prewar Berlin” takes place in one fascinating, fact-filled afternoon-evening. Mel Gordon — a professor of theater arts at the ...
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