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Meanwhile, very few of the
young actors really know
fluent Yiddish. Some know
no Yiddish at all and must
_ memorize their lines
phonetically. Sandy Levitt,
who began with a better
Yiddish background than
many and has made progress
since, explains how it still
feels to him: "You're trying
to approach your role as an
actor, and here you are
, burdened with this lang-
uage."
Even Bruce Adler, for
whom "Yiddish is not a for-
eign language, it's my se-
cond language," is thinking
in English while he's speak-
ing and singing in Yiddish.
The actors' difficulties in
turn further limit the pro-
' ducers' choice of repertory.
And while people do create
new adaptations of old plays,
new dramatizations of old
Yiddish novels, and new
Yiddish translations of
Israeli comedies, it has been
many years since a young
playwright wrote a new
Yiddish play.
Yiddish language is the
crux of all the ways in which
Yiddish theater is alien to
the younger actors, even
while it exerts an emotional
pull on them. The best of
them show their skill by
expanding into traditional
repertory, stage conven-
tions, stage practices, and
style. But, as Adrienne Co-
oper observes, "Anyone who
does Yiddish theater now is
a world apart from its
origins.
I must legitimize where I
start from. I must legitimize
my own experience. I can't
replace the old ways, and I
can't imitate them. My
responsibility is to take in
the authentic sensibility, get
through our own am-
bivalence about our violated
culture and the burden of
history, and make a new
connection with song."

Still young and old, in
their own ways and for their
own reasons, keep on troup-
ing. The same refusal to give
up that animates the old
actors animates the theater
as a whole and, in fact, all of
Yiddish culture. Says the
rebellious yeshiva boy,
David Kener, "I've been
clicking into the tradition of
Yiddish theater.
If someone like me is actu-
ally here, there must be hope
> for Yiddish theater after
all." Says Avi Hoffman,
raised on Yiddish literature,
"I thought dozens of times of
leaving Yiddish theater and
going back to rock and roll."
But then he adds, "I'm glad I
stuck around."

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