Iconic role of the actor and director of the Moscow State Yiddish Theatre (GosET) Solomon Mikhoels (1890–1948). His production of Shakespeare’s King Lear is considered one of the outstanding interpretations of the piece; it is distinctive in its ambiguity between the affirmation of socialist realism and the critique of Stalinism. Mikhoels’s roles and productions cover a spectrum from classical drama to the shtetl-film Yidishe glikn. In their diversity and ambivale…