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Topsy Turvy – Purim Spiel

Yair Lifshitz

An annual outlet for the pressure cooker of the medieval Jewish community, the Purim spiel subtly subverts the power structures of Jewish society, making a mockery of their authority Yair Lifshitz Reb Yeshaya Priwes was...
פורים שפיל בגרסת היידישפיל. סצנה מתוך ההצגה 'די מגילה' המועלית כיום על ידי תאטרון היידישפיל

Megilla with a Secular Twist

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The Megilla’s Darker Side Itzik Manger was born in 1901 in Czernowitz, although one version of the biography he invented for himself claimed that his tailor father had migrated from Romania, and that he himself...
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