Diego Rotman: Dzigan & Schumacher

• Diego Rotman, author of The Yiddish Stage as a Temporary Home: Dzigan and Shumacher’s Satirical Theater (1927-1980), discusses the famed Yiddish comedy duo Shimon Dzigan and Yisroel Schumacher in an interview with Sholem Beinfeld, Professor Emeritus of the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis, and a co-host of The Yiddish Voice. For further info:
  • Home page for this book’s English translation at the publisher, De Gruyter
  • Home page for this book’s Hebrew original, הבמה כבית ארעי: התאטרון של דז’יגאן ושומאכר (1980-1927) , at the publisher, Magnes Press
  • דזשיגאַן און שומאַכער: אױף דער בינע פֿונעם ייִדישן גלות (Review article in Yiddish by Michael Krutikov, published in the Yiddish Forverts, April 16, 2021)
  • Diego Rotman’s home page at Hebrew University’s Department of Theatre Studies
  • Yivo Encyclopedia page on Dzigan and Schumacher

Music:

• Wolf Krakowski: Yeder Ruft Mikh Zhamele
• Intro and Outro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz

Air Date: March 2, 2022