Gordin

Gordin was the first, though certainly not the last, professional Yiddish dramatist to create thoughtful and intelligent female characters.

Yiddish Theater in the United States. 2009

Gordin is supposed to have written his popular play of thwarted love, The Kreutzer Sonata, because once, as he sat in her dressing room, she flirted with him, brushing her long dark hair and coaxing, “Write a play for my hair.”

Yiddish Theater in the United States. 2009

Gordin wrote the role of Etty in The Kreutzer Sonata and the title role of his Sappho especially for Kalich.

Bertha Kalich. 2009

Note 34: Gordin, A Well-Ordered Thing (2004). back

Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna 2007

Note 37: Nye, The Question of the Atom (1986), 430; Gordin, A Well-Ordered Thing (2004), 226. back

Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna 2007

Over the years, Kalich played in many other Gordin roles.

Bertha Kalich. 2009

Keni Liptzin, bertha kalich, and Sara Adler remained permanently associated with Gordin roles.

Yiddish Theater in the United States. 2009

Especially on Mendeleev's work on radioactivity, see Gordin, A Well-Ordered Thing (2004). back

Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna 2007

“King Lear,” Gordin declared, “will never work as well in English.”

Dreaming of a Yiddish Christmas, with Sugarplums and a Klezmer Soundtrack 2008

“King Lear,” Gordin declared, “will never work as well in English.”

Dreaming of a Yiddish Christmas, with Sugarplums and a Klezmer Soundtrack 2008