A Yiddish King Lear

raceb 10/15/2012 EDUCATION AND LIFE LESSONS, EUROPEAN AMERICAN/WHITES, FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD, Jewish, JEWISH AMERICAN/JEWS, Judith Heineman, Storytelling Collection

By Judith Heineman

 

Story Summary:

 A Yiddish King Lear is about hard choices, hopes, dreams, racial persecution, and love! It tells of the moment Judith realized that her grandfather, Oscar Markowitz, an actor in the Yiddish Theatre at the turn of the 20th Century was her role model as a Storyteller. Remembering her grandfather’s background, gave her the courage to pursue her dreams. A Yiddish King Lear is set in the emotional, artistic and actual geographic crossroad of Second Avenue in New York City in the early 1900’s and in the 1970’s.  (more…)