The Forward

Opera about a unique Yiddish dictionary to have its world premiere

It’s not every day, even in New York City, that Yiddish enthusiasts can see a live, fully-staged performance of an opera about Yiddish. “Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language” set design by Michael ...
The Forward

Opera brings to life the poignant fate of the Great Yiddish Dictionary

Most of us can relate to having unfinished projects. Imagine dedicating 25 years of your life to creating an all-encompassing dictionary — yet, never getting past the first letter. This is the story ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word - as opera

"The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language," an original chamber opera, premieres at YIVO, dramatizing the post-Holocaust effort to preserve Yiddish through language. (New York Jewish Week) — In ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews. In the hallways of New York’s YIVO ...
The Jewish Exponent

At YIVO, an Unfinished Yiddish Dictionary Gets the Last Word — as Opera

In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...