4:00-5:00 TRANSLATION INTO YIDDISH
Chair: YITSKHOK NIBORSKI

DROR ABEND-DAVID (New York University)
"Daytshmerish, German Elements, and Jewish Identity in Three Yiddish Translations of The Merchant of Venice"
HELEN BEER (Worcester College, Oxford)
"Itsik Manger and Woyzeck"

6:30
Greetings
MARTIN GOODMAN, Acting President (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies)
Introduction to the work of the European Science Foundation
MARIANNE YAGOUBI (European Science Foundation, Strasbourg)
Opening remarks
DOV-BER KERLER and JOEL BERKOWITZ (Workshop Organisers)
Keynote address
NAHMA SANDROW (Bronx Community College, City University of New York)

9:30-10:30 CENTRAL EUROPE
Chair: NINA WARNKE

BRIGITTE DALINGER (University of Vienna)
"Yiddish Theatre in Vienna from 1880 to 1938"
MOSHE YASSUR (Yiddish Actor, New York)
"The Last Years of the Goldfaden Yiddish Theater at 'Pomul Verde' in Iasi, Romania (an Eyewitness Account)"

11:00-12:30 PURIMSHPIL
Chair: TED FRAM

JEROLD FRAKES (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Purimshpil as Political Action"
AHUVA BELKIN (Tel Aviv University)
"The 'Law' Culture Aspects of the Purimshpil"
JEAN BAUMGARTEN (CNRS, Paris)
"A Purimshpil in Kiryat Vizhnitz, Bnei Braq (March 1996)"

1:30-3:00 RUSSIAN AND SOVIET YIDDISH THEATRE
Chair: JEFFREY VEIDLINGER

JOHN KLIER (University College, London)
"Exeunt, Pursued by a Bear: Russian Administrators and the Ban on Yiddish Theatre, Drama, and Performance"
BARBARA HENRY (St Antony's College, Oxford)
"Jewish Plays on the Russian Stage: Moscow and St Petersburg (1905-1917)"
AVRAM GREENBAUM (Haifa University)
"Repertory and Repertory Problems in the Belorussian Jewish State Theatre in the Interwar Period"

3:30-5:00 YIDDISH PLAYWRIGHTS
Chair: DOV-BER KERLER

YITSKHOK NIBORSKI (INALCO, Paris)
"The Theatre of Aaron Zeitlin"
VASSILI SCHEDRIN (Brandeis University)
"'Eternal Wanderer': The Life of Osip Dymov"
LEONARD PRAGER (Haifa University)
"The Censorship of Asch's Got fun nekome, London, 1946"

7:30 Performance

RAPHAEL GOLDWASSER (LUFTEATER, STRASBOURG)
Classic Yiddish Monologues
LEAH SHLANGER (TEL AVIV)
Shir-haShirim - A Monodrama

9:30-10:30 MUSIC AND RADIO
Chair: ITSIK GOTTESMAN

RON ROBBOY (The Thomashefsky Project, San Francisco)
"A Crypto-Wagnerian Event in a Yiddish Musical Production: Alexander Olshanetsky's Longing for a Forbidden Harmonic Language"
HENRY SAPOZNIK (Living Traditions, New York)
"On Stage and On the Air: Yiddish Drama on Radio"

11:00-1:00 AVROM GOLDFADEN
Chair: JOEL BERKOWITZ

PAOLA BERTOLONE (Rome)
"The Goldfaden Myth in Yiddish Culture"
MIROSLAWA BULAT (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)
"From Goldfaden to Goldfaden in Cracow's Jewish Theatres"
ALYSSA QUINT (Harvard University)
"Avrom Goldfaden's Bar Kokhba"
SETH WOLITZ (University of Texas, Austin)
"The Role of Song in Goldfaden's Shulamis and Bar Kokhba"

2:00-3:00 DYBBUKS, GOLEMS, AND KINDRED SPIRITS
Chair: SETH WOLITZ

LAURA MINCER (Independent Scholar, Rome)
"Tradition Revisited in Moni Ovadia's Yiddish Theatre"
NINA HEIN (Columbia University)
"Automatons and Marionettes in the Yiddish Theatre of the 1920s"

3:30-5:00 POLEMICS AND POLITICS
Chair: LEONARD PRAGER

NINA WARNKE (Indiana University)
"The Child that Doesn't Grow Up: Yiddish Theatre and Its Critics"
JOEL BERKOWITZ (St Cross College, Oxford)
"Moyshele, Wipe Your Nose!, or, The Mendel Beilis Affair on the Yiddish Stage"
EDNA NAHSHON (Jewish Theological Seminary, New York)
"The Performance of Justice: Yiddish Mock Trials"

7:30
Performance

SHIFRA LERER (NEW YORK) and BERNARD MENDELOVITCH (LONDON)
The World of Yiddish Theatre
Piano: DAVID MAZOWER

9:30-11:00 AT THE MARGINS OF YIDDISH AND OF THEATRE
Chair: EDNA NAHSHON

BEN FURNISH (BkMk Press, Kansas City)
"Echoes of the Yiddish Stage in Contemporary Jewish-American Drama"
ITSIK GOTTESMAN (University of Texas, Austin)
"The Yiddish 'Folks-retsitator"'
DAVID MAZOWER (BBC, London)
"Stories in Song: The Melodeklamatsies of Joseph Markovitch"

11:30-1:00 THE MOSCOW STATE YIDDISH THEATRE
Chair: BARBARA HENRY

JEFFREY VEIDLINGER (Indiana University)
"Socialist Realism on the Soviet Yiddish Stage"
JOSEPH SCHEIN (Yiddish Author, Paris)

"Shloyme Mikhoels and GOSET: A Firsthand Account"

1:00-2:30 Lunch and round-table
THE FUTURE OF YIDDISH THEATRE SCHOLARSHIP