"The First Shakespeare Plays I Ever Saw Were in Yiddish": Harold Bloom on M. Schwartz as Shylock

Harold Bloom, z"l, literary critic, describes seeing the great Yiddish actor Maurice Schwartz performing in the Yiddish rewrite of Merchant of Venice at the Second Avenue Theatre in the late 1930s.

This is part of a 40-minute oral history interview recorded on September 22, 2019 as part of the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project. The full interview is not yet available online, but this comment will be uploaded when it is.

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