There's always something new at Steve Lasky's virtual Museum of Family History. Here's the March update: - “Churbn Lettland: The Destruction of the Jews of Latvia� – Very important telling of events, written in 1947 by a survivor. More material from the English... Continue reading here.......

“Gimpel Tam,� a production of the National Yiddish Theater — Folksbiene, includes an outstanding klezmer band and some splendid singing....

The JGS of Los Angeles will present a program on the influence of Yiddish theatre and music on American culture by Cantor Hale Porter, at 1.30pm, Sunday, December 7, at the Milken JCC in West Hills. The modern Yiddish theatre came into being in Romania in 1876. Its goal was to convey middle-class We...

Molly Picon, with her geneyvishe oygen (mischievous eyes) I love this photo of the late, great doyenne of the Yiddish theater, Molly Picon. Often referred to as the Jewish Helen Hayes, this diminutive actress left her mark on the world. She was born Margaret Pyekoon on Broome Street on the Lower Eas...

Sunday morning, I catch a screening at the Laemmle theater in Santa Monica. In it, a professor of Yiddish at Vilnius University in Lithuania, an absolute bear of a man, talks about immigrant Jews wanting their children to speak English without a yiddish accent. "They wanted their children to be...