Keeping Alive a Haven for Yiddish Culture in Modern Romania
BUCHAREST, Romania — Just a few minutes on foot from the bustle of downtown Bucharest, the State Jewish Theater, down a small side street in the Romanian capital, cuts a forlorn figure.
Yet the theater is one of the few vestiges of what was once a large Jewish community in Romania, and one of the few professional Yiddish-language theaters left in Europe.
In 2014, heavy snowfall literally brought the roof down, causing the theater to close for two years. It reopened to the public in November, its roof fixed, its interior freshly painted and the decades-old wiring finally replaced.
“The last two years it was difficult to survive,” said Maia Morgenstern, the theater’s manager and an actress who played Mary in Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.” “We performed here and there. Other theaters, public libraries.”'>>>
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