Performing Catastrophe, Performing Yiddish: The Holocaust in Yiddish Theatre and Film

Joel Berkowitz is Professor of English and Director of the Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A historian of the Yiddish theatre, translator of Yiddish drama, and theatre consultant, he has published four books on Yiddish theatre, and is the co-founder of the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project (yiddishstage.org), an international research consortium dedicated to producing public-facing scholarship on Yiddish theatre and drama.

Rebecca Margolis  is Professor and Pratt Foundation Chair of Jewish Civilisation at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University. Her recent publications include Yiddish Lives On: Strategies for Language Transmission (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023), and forthcoming is The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen: Dybbuks, Demons and Haunted Jewish Pasts (Lexington Books).

Sonia Gollance is Lecturer in Yiddish, Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College of London. She is the author of It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (Stanford University Press, 2021). Gollance is currently working on a translated edition of Tea Arciszewska’s play “Miryeml” (1958/59), and is also developing a project about Yiddish plays by women and working on an edited volume about Yiddish dance.