In the summer of 1939 at Camp Tamiment, a predominantly Jewish resort, a Yiddish parody of Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Mikado' was staged, featuring notable performers like Danny Kaye and Jerome Robbins.

Miriam Isaacs is the Yiddish language coach for the play "Hester Street," a drama set in the world of Jewish immigrant life in New York.

Rabbi Emanuel Feldman, the former editor-in-chief of Tradition Magazine and author of 11 books, discusses his unique writing style and motivations as a rabbi and writer in a conversation with the 18Forty Podcast.