"The Dybbuk"
A production still from the 2013 production of “The Dybbuk” by the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival, showing Leah watching the burial of Channon. (Photo courtesy of the Rauh Jewish Archives)
March 9, 2025, 12:26 pm
‘The Dybbuk’ returns
In the last of a three-part series, “The Dybbuk” is revived locally on stage through three community theatre productions in 1984, 1993, and 2013.
By Eric Lidji
Gabe Rubin’s Art Cinema downtown hosted the Pittsburgh premier of the film adaptation of “The Dybbuk” in September 1938. An advertisement in the local Y Weekly described the movie as “a picture that oversteps all boundaries of language.” (Image courtesy of the Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project)
February 27, 2025, 9:49 am
‘The Dybbuk’ again and again
In the second of a three-part series, “The Dybbuk” returns to Pittsburgh again and again from the late 1920s to the early 1990s through theater and film.
By Eric Lidji
The original Habima Players production of “The Dybbuk” was everywhere regarded as a stunning theatrical experience where the acting, sets, lighting, perfectly harmonized with the text of the play to create a stunning theatrical experience. The Jewish Criterion printed this production still from the third act to encourage local audiences to attend an upcoming performance in Pittsburgh in June 1927.
February 23, 2025, 7:55 pm
A dybbuk comes to Pittsburgh
In the first of a three-part series, program from a 1927 production of “The Dybbuk” reveals a century-long tradition of Jewish theater in Pittsburgh
By Eric Lidji
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