Life + Death – Page 3

The Challenge of Godot in Yiddish: Talking to Actor Richard Saudek

January 29, 2019January 23, 2019 by LABA

By Amy Handelsman The New Yiddish Rep’s Waiting for Godot—in Yiddish with English supertitles—runs through January 27th at the the Theater at the 14th Street Y. Tickets available here. Current LABA fellow Richard Saudek appears as Lucky. Saudek’s brilliant clown show boop beep appears Februrary 6th through 17th, also at the Theater of the 14th Street Y. Tickets for beep boop available here. In Samuel Beckett’s revolutionary play, Waiting for Godot, we see two sad sacks in bowler hats and suspendered pants: Estragon (nicknamed Gogo) and

Reconsidering Julie Herzl, Theodor’s Unhappy Wife

January 23, 2019January 17, 2019 by LABA

By Alex Weiser When Julie Naschauer, the wife of Theodor Herzl—father of modern political Zionism—died in 1907 at the young age of 39, she was mourned as a beloved figure of the Zionist movement. It was only four years after Theodor died at the age of 44. The headline of her obituary in the Yiddish

When One Family Member Comes Out, the Whole Family Goes on a Journey

January 10, 2019January 10, 2019 by LABA

LABA fellow Yochai Greenfeld will be performing at LABAlive, Saturday, 2/2, 7.30pm at the Theater at the 14th Street Y. (Buy your ticket now!) Below, Greenfeld writes about his life as a performer and creating his Jewish mother character, Abbi Gezunt. About Me I was born and raised in Jerusalem. All through high school, I

After Death, People Come and Touch Your Things

January 2, 2019January 2, 2019 by LABA

Maya Ciarrocchi is a Bronx-based interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses identity and the body as a site of history. Her LABA project is Site: Yizkor, is an installation comprised of architectural renderings, shtetl maps, and Yizkor, or memorial, books. The work traces the lost and forgotten spaces left by the dead and questions how and why people,

A Hummus Hangout

November 29, 2018October 11, 2018 by LABA

Reflecting on a hummus workshop as a metaphor of life: LABA alum Amy Handelsman shares her experiences of the day. One of my strongest childhood memories is the day we made peanut butter in Miss Greenfield’s second-grade class. It was with great anticipation that we began on a crisp autumnal day—a whole Friday morning devoted to

Welcome 2018-2019 LABA Fellows!

January 2, 2019October 7, 2018 by LABA

Ronit Muszkatblit, Artistic Director LABA, on this year’s LABA fellows. Welcome to a new year of LABA. A new year of ancient questions. A new year of investigating the two given things we all have in common: Life and Death. From the moment we come into being until the moment we are no more,