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Death of a Salesman in Yiddish by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Although Arthur Miller grew up in a Jewish family, none of his characters with the exception of the antique dealer in The Price are explicitly Jewish. Yiddish stage star Joseph Buloff sought to correct that when he adapted "Death of a Salesman" as "Toyt fun a Seylsman" and presented the play in Argentina in 1949. In 1951, Miller permitted Buloff to bring the translation t…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:23PM on October 19, 2015

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