Click Here to Read: Jan Kott Would Have Loved ‘Waiting for Godot’ in Yiddish. No, He Didn’t Speak Yiddish. I was reminded of the Polish critic and Shakespeare scholar at the New Yiddish Rep’s production of Beckett’s masterpiece By Frances Brent|November 6, 2013.
Reunion in postwar Paris: Jan Kott, Maryna Zagórska, Jerzy Zagórski (Catholic poet and translator), and Lidia Kott. During the war, Jan Kott and the Zagórskis were members of the Polish underground. (Courtesy of Michael Kott)