His most prominent roles included three tenderly caring parents, but he was most associated with the dapper gangsters he portrayed in the movies and on television.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMThe first American production of “Fiddler on the Roof” in the language of the shtetl means training actors to hit the inflections, not just the notes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PMMrs. Gelb wrote several books, the best known being a weighty biography of Eugene O’Neill on which she collaborated with her husband.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMMr. Finkel won an Emmy for his portrayal of a cantankerous lawyer on the 1990s show “Picket Fences.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIn a career covering more than six decades, Ms. Garrett also played Archie Bunker’s liberal foil and a sardonic landlady in “Laverne & Shirley.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe Museum of Jewish Heritage, trying to attract more visitors, and the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene, seeking a permanent home, could undergo a full-blown merger by 2017, officials sa…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:11AMYIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the National Library of Israel will jointly administer the literary estate of Chaim Grade, who died in 1982.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:23PMThe violinist Itzhak Perlman and Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, the cantor from the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, have scheduled a show for Feb. 28.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:08PMBenjamin P. Feldman, a retired real estate investor with the time and the money to chase his enthusiasms, was rummaging through a bin at a flea market in Chelsea last winter when he came acr…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:07PMThe man whose name was on the purse turned out to be the grandfather of the late playwright Herb Gardner, whose works, including “A Thousand Clowns,” often revolved around the kind of ec…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:44PMMs. Lerer was discovered at age 5 in Argentina by the great Yiddish actor Boris Thomashefsky and went on to have a 90-year career in Yiddish theater.
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