Playing Shylock ****
By Samuel L. Leiter December 4, 2025: In 1905, Jacob Adler, a giant of Manhattan's Yiddish theater, spoke these (or similar) words from the stage of Teller's Broadway Theatre in Brooklyn's Williamsburg section:Â Ich bin a yeed. Hut den nit a yeed kyn oign? Hut den nisht a yeed kyn hent, kyn ayvurim, kyn kheeshim, kyn gefihln, kyn lydenshaftn? Genehrt mit der zelber shpys, geshedikt mit di zelbe vaffen, bafahlen f…
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