Nahma sandrow biography definition

American cultural historian (born 1940)

Nahma Sandrow is an American scholar of theater and cultural history,^[1] 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.^[2] She is also the author of Kuni-Leml and Vagabond Stars, prize-winning Off-Broadway musicals based on Yiddish theatre material.^[2] She is Professor Emerita at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York,^[2] 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."^[3]

In 1984 Samuel Freedman, of the New York Times, described the Off-Broadway success of Kuni-