Benefit Lunch with Bertha Kalich

Karle:Who is coming? What do I hear! God Almighty![Markwitz standing in the door.]Markwitz, tall, thin appearance. Threadbare elegance of the nineties. He is, without a doubt, a…

Cast [in this passage]Abraham Levi: Rich merchantAneta: Abraham Levi’s wifeMax, Yosef, and Aron: Abraham and Aneta Levi’s sonsFrida and Klerchen: Abraham and Aneta Levi’s daughtersShmuel Natan: Zionis…

Moriah SoiréeBar GioraA Play in Seven ActsBy: David YellinAdapted from Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell(On the life of the Jews before the destruction of the Second Temple and their overthrowing of the Roman…

Vera [Agitated, coming nearer]:  Irony, Mr. Quixano? Please, please, do not imagine there is any irony in my congratulations.David:  The irony is in all the congratulations. How can I endure them when…

Last Saturday night, the “Amateurs of the Hebrew Stage” in Jerusalem staged Molière’s comedy Harpagon [The Miser].1 A large and diverse audience of Jerusalemites filled the hall. It would seem that…