Episode: 0317: Italian Opera for the Yiddish-Speaking Masses in Early 20th-Century America
On "The Shmooze," Daniela Smolov Levy and Mark Kligman talk about their five-part lecture series that reveals how popular Italian opera was aimed not only at Italian immigrants and native-born Americans but also the Yiddish-speaking public, who were then emerging as an integral part of the American cultural scene.
Episode: 0317: Italian Opera for the Yiddish-Speaking Masses in Early 20th-Century America
On "The Shmooze," Daniela Smolov Levy and Mark Kligman talk about their five-part lecture series that reveals how popular Italian opera was aimed not only at Italian immigrants and native-born Americans but also the Yiddish-speaking public, who were then emerging as an integral part of the American cultural scene.
Episode 317
January 13, 2022
Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, MA
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