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dreamy grandson.
"Those were pretty amaz-
ing years," he recalls,
"because that was the end of
when all those actors were
alive. You could still have
the atmosphere. Madame
Kaminska, for instance. Her
bearing was still that of an
aristocrat. You always felt
honored to be in her
presence, drawn to her. She
was a magnet. I was privi-
leged. I am the last link in
the goldene keyt, the golden
chain."
Mr. Rosenfeld has estab-
lished an agency called
Golden Land Connections, a
"Jewish entertainment
resource," and is currently
producing Those Were the
Days, his third successful
musical revue. He marvels
that when the show played
at the mammoth Westbury
Music Fair on Long Island,

"When I do Yiddish
theater, I feel I'm
paying homage
through my body to
my family and their
world."

Bruce Adler

more than 3,000 people at-
tended and "they loved it."
Ironically, Mr. Rosenfeld's
very determination to hold
on is leading him inexorably
to make changes in tra-
dition. He describes his
shows as a conscious "bridge
between the generations";
the majority of audiences are
older than the cast, but in
the four years that his first
show toured, the average age
of audiences did get steadily
younger. He advertised the
show in English-language
media as well as Yiddish. He
hired Eleanor Reissa and
Bruce Adler as well as vet-
erans. He chose golden oldie
show tunes, a program of
nostalgia, but choreograph-
ed in up-to-date style.
For all of its problems, the
Yiddish theater survives.
Young and old, in their own
ways and for their own
reasons, keep on trouping.
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
once-rebellious yeshiva boy,
David Kener, "I've been
clicking into the tradition of
Yiddish theater. If someone
like me is actually 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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FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1991

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