Roni Neuman

Ingénue Israeli actress has left the Yiddish stage and gone back to act in Israel. Although learning how to speak Yiddish phonetically for the production of Green Fields, she received the most amazing reviews from the toughest critics in NY on her performance in this play.

Shifra Lerer

Mythical Argentine actress and singer of the Yiddish stage, who has been living in the United States for many years. Shifra, who is 91 years old, became a film star in 1997 when she played one of the leading parts in Woody Allen’s "Deconstructing Harry".

Zalmen Mlotek

Zalmen Mlotek is an internationally recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music and a leading figure in the Jewish theatre and concert worlds.   After Zypora Spaisman left the Folksbiene he took over as the Executive Director of The National Yiddish Theater - Folksbiene, the last remaining Yiddish Theater in America.   Many see him as carrying her torch of keeping Yiddish Theater alive into the next centuries.

Mr. Mlotek's many recordings include several made at the request of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. His tribute to wartime Yiddish Theater, which he conceived in collaboration with Adrienne Cooper, is performed all over the world and is available on the Traditional Crossroads label.

Mr. Mlotek is Director of Arts Programming at the Center for Cultural Jewish Life of the Workmen's Circle, and is the conductor of the New Yiddish Chorale.

Mr. Mlotek is currently in the process of creating a permanent home for the Yiddish theater in NYC.

Felix Fibich

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