Rokhl's Golden City: No, Thank You, 'Whore From Ohio'

If I had to identify one image encapsulating the inverse of everything that is Yiddish Fiddler, it would probably be my old friend David Mandelbaum giving a (simulated) shtupping to a prostitute on stage, in Yiddish.

I’ve definitely left the Yiddish theater angry before, but I’ve never left in an “I can’t look anyone in this elevator in the eye” mood. This was last week, when I finally saw Hanoch Levin’s The Whore From Ohio, which New Yiddish Rep has been playing in Hebrew and Yiddish. There was David, with a pair of black panties over his face, and there was I, a person who was a lot more prudish than previously suspected.

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