by Shelley A. Sackett

(This interview originally appeared in the Jewish Journal)

When Igor Golyak, founder and artistic director of Needham’s Arlekin Players Theatre, was researching “The Merchant of Venice,” he was smacked in the face by the discovery that Jews have been on the move throughout the span of their existence.

Their constant migration reminded him of his own family, which emigrated in 2004 from Ukraine.

Then, on July 1, Brighton Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was stabbed. Golyak attended a meeting with other Jewish refugees and he remembers someone asking, “Where do we go now?”

“My family came here to escape antisemitism. What I suddenly understood is that there is no escaping antisemitism,” Golyak said.

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