Actors in this weekend’s production of “Waiting for Godot” at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm performed neither in the classic play’s original English nor in Swedish translation. Rather, they were speaking Yiddish, a language spoken by few Swedes but increasingly cherished by many. The Yiddish version of Samuel Beckett’s classic absurdist play, translated by… Read More »
Though there are at most around 3,000 speakers in Sweden today, the three shows filled nearly to capacity reflect the popularity of the official minority language