Word: yiddish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warrens of disheveled one-room "shops" crammed into loft buildings and slatternly tenements, the sharp whir of sewing machines stops. Workers and bosses pour onto the sidewalk and gather in clots at the curb under the glowering sun. Above the bray of automobile horns, hunched, rumpled men shout in Yiddish, Italian and English, leaning against the clogged trucks, stepping out of the way of rattling racks of dresses without missing a verb or a gesture...
Plunging from a chuckle to a shout, bellowing into a telephone in his broad Yiddish accent, flourishing an unlit cigar, Dubinsky directs this show with shirt-sleeved zest and an even hand. Says he: "You've got to be on your toes, not on your bottom...
...gotten through its four brief sections (a bright, gay solo, a duo, a meditative slow movement and a powerful recapitulation) they and Choreographer Humphrey had won an ovation. New works by other American Dance Festival regulars, including Sophie Maslow's fine but unfinished Festival, based on stories by Yiddish Story Writer Sholom Aleichem, and Jane Dudley's wispy Vagary (music by Bela Bartok), suffered by comparison...
...which in a wink of the eye might become Drabkin, B. Mikhailov, Braun or Gerhart Eisler. These were Moscow's agents. From the ninth floor the Word which they brought from Moscow was passed along to the faithful, to the party hacks on the Daily Worker and the Yiddish-language Freiheit, to the cultivators of organized labor's vineyards, to men like Christoffel in Milwaukee...
Tevye and his troubles are at the center of Sholom Aleichem's classic Yiddish tales, which in the past half century have become an integral part of Jewish folk life. Some have been translated into English in Tevye's Daughters-though with only a shade of the ironic, shoulder-shrugging spirit of the original...