BASHEVIS’S DEMONS comprises three short stories by legendary Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer and will be presented Off-Broadway direct from engagements in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. BASHEVIS’S DEMONS, which debuted in Stockholm in December 2023, will make its official Off-Broadway bow at Out of the Box Theatre, 154 Christopher Street (between Greenwich & Washington Streets), with performances beginning December 18th and running through January 5th.

The tales featured in BASHEVIS’S DEMONS serve up demons, saints, sinners, hope, despair, and at least two chickens, all in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s original Yiddish with full English supertitles projected overhead. In The Mirror, a young woman – ignored by her husband the traveling salesman – steps through a mirror into the world of demons, where she can at last be the center of attention. In The Last Demon, a Jewish demon fails to bring down a shtetl rabbi. Exiled to the small town as Satan’s punishment, he witnesses the destruction of the Jewish community, including his nemesis the rabbi, by forces far crueler than his own and remains stuck there for eternity with nothing but the Yiddish word to console him. Lastly, in Kukeriku (yes, that’s how a cock crows in Yiddish!), we hear a rooster’s tale of hope on the eve of a great slaughter.

BASHEVIS’S DEMONS will be presented by the Congress for Jewish Culture in association with ChaShaMa and Out of the Box Theatrics. Founded in 1948, the Congress for Jewish Culture is a secular organization based in New York City dedicated to enriching Yiddish culture worldwide.

The Congress for Jewish Culture was founded in 1948 to promote Yiddish language and culture. Among the founders were such luminaries as Shmuel Charney, Shmerke Kaczerginski, H. Leivick, and Yoysef Opatoshu. We believe that the printed word is the face of a language, the spoken word its beating heart, the song its soul. We join artists and individuals to the Yiddish community through live programming, web media, and print publications with resources for all levels of Yiddish understanding. Visit us at CongressForJewishCulture.org