Di Goldene Kallah (“The Golden Bride”) premiered on New York’s Lower East Side in 1923 to a packed audience and remained a staple of the Yiddish stage until after World War II. The New York-based National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene now has plans to revive it. Joshua Barone writes:

In the operetta, a beautiful young woman named Goldele, who was abandoned as a child, receives an unexpected inheritance and sets off on a journey to claim her estate, find her mother, and offer her hand to the man who can help.

[The play] dropped out of the New York theater scene after 1948. The main reason: “People just stopped speaking Yiddish,” said Michael Ochs, a musicologist who discovered the remnants of the operetta’s score and libretto about 25 years ago, . . . while working at the Harvard Library.

Israel will likely respond directly against Iran after yesterday’s attack, and has made known that it will calibrate its retaliation based not on the extent of the damage, but on the scale of the attack. The specifics are anyone’s guess, but Edward Luttwak has a suggestion, put forth in an article published just hours before the missile barrage: cut off Tehran’s ability to send money and arms to Shiite Arab militias.

In practice, most of this cash comes from a single source: oil. . . . In other words, the flow of dollars that sustains Israel’s enemies, and which has caused so much trouble to Western interests from the Syrian desert to the Red Sea, emanates almost entirely from the oil loaded onto tankers at the export terminal on Khark Island, a speck of land about 25 kilometers off Iran’s southern coast. Benjamin Netanyahu warned in his recent speech to the UN General Assembly that Israel’s “long arm” can reach them too. Indeed, Khark’s location in the Persian Gulf is relatively close. At 1,516 kilometers from Israel’s main airbase, it’s far closer than the Houthis’ main oil import terminal at Hodeida in Yemen—a place that was destroyed by Israeli jets in July, and attacked again [on Sunday].