Alan Lewis Rickman
Actor, director, and performer (credited as Alan/Alan Lewis Rickman in the program) who performs classic Yiddish/English comedy routines and sketches in the event.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 1h 19min
Jewface: “Yiddish” Dialect Songs of Tin Pan Alley
Alan Lewis Rickman, actor and performer, enacts classic Yiddish/English comedy. Jody Rosen, journalist and sheet-music collector, brings historical sleuthing. Eddy Portnoy, YIVO curator, contextualizes Tin Pan Alley’s Yiddish-influenced material. They explore vaudeville Jewface origins, comic sketches and songs, bilingual humor, controversies over stereotyping, and the genre’s links to later Jewish comedy.
