Nahma Sandrow
Nahma Sandrow is a scholar of theater and cultural history, and author of the books "Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater"; "God, Man, and Devil: Yiddish Plays in Translation"; and "Surrealism: Theater, Arts, Ideas". She is also the author of "Kuni-Leml" and "Vagabond Stars", prize-winning Off-Broadway musicals based on Yiddish theatre material. She is Professor Emerita at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, and has lectured at Oxford University, Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, and elsewhere. Joseph Papp, writing in the "New York Times" Book Review, observed about "Vagabond  Stars": "what makes Sandrow's work distinctive is the unusual blend of impeccable scholarship and hilarious backstage anecdote." In 1984 Samuel Freedman, of the "New York Times", described the Off-Broadway success of "Kuni-Leml", based on Abraham Goldfaden's Yiddish play "The Two Kuni-Lemls", of 1880, as "largely attributable to Nahma Sandrow", noting that her work in researching, translating, and adapting the play had yielded a production with contemporary resonance.