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Moving & Shaking: Mike Burstyn’s directorial debut, Rabbi Jon Hanish honored and more
Ryan Torok
September 14, 2017
LAJFF celebrates 50 years of Kuni Lemel
Tom Tugend
May 18, 2016
Not one but two Kuni Lemels are coming to town, hoping that a new generation of filmgoers will welcome the ultimate shtetl shlemiel as warmly as its parents and grandparents did a half-century ago.
Meyer Lansky, hero and villain, back from the dead and live on stage
Tom Tugend
June 29, 2007
When he died peacefully as a retired businessman in Miami on Jan. 15, 1983, the New York Times headlined the sizeable obituary, \”Meyer Lansky dead at 81; Financial Wizard of Organized Crime.\”\n
Yiddish curtain rises at the University of Judaism
Robert David Jaffee
February 16, 2007
In a showbiz career that has spanned nearly six decades, Israeli American actor Mike Burstyn has played everyone from Al Jolson and Tevye to Nathan Detroit and P.T. Barnum.
Yiddish theater — live on stage!
Dave Kopplin
December 14, 2006
Singer and performer Mike Burstyn — known internationally for his roles on stage, in films and on television — stars in the 40th-anniversary celebration of the groundbreaking works of Yiddish theater, \”The Megillah of Itzak Manger\” \’s premiere in Israel.
Remembering the Comedians
Peter Ephross
February 6, 2003
Walking into Lillian Lux\’s Lower East Side home in New York is like entering a museum of Yiddish theater. The apartment holds a photo of Lux and her husband — the late Yiddish actor Pesach\’ke Burstein — from an appearance in Argentina in the late 1930s. There also is a picture of Lux, Burstein and their actor-son, Mike, who now lives in Los Angeles, at a benefit for wounded Israeli soldiers.
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