Jody Rosen
Journalist and New York Times critic-at-large with a large sheet-music collection; contributor to and lender for the Jewface exhibition who provides historical commentary on the songs and recordings.
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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.
