Description: The contextualized memoir of noted Yiddish comedian and actor, Shimon Dzigan, whose account reveals much about the experience of interwar Poland, wartime USSR and Israel.
Brief description: Diego Rotman is Head of the Department of Theatre Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the author of The Yiddish Stage as a Temporary Home: Dzigan and Shumacher's Satirical Theater (1927-1980), which received the prestigious Shapiro Prize for the Best Book in Israel Studies.