Half Sephardic, half Ashkenazi, a third-generation Holocaust survivor, and raised Modern Orthodox on Manhattan’s West Side, Rabbani has built a career that bridges Jewish tradition with a thoroughly modern artistic life.
While studying at the Stella Adler Studio at NYU, Rabbani met Adler’s grandson, Tom Oppenheim, who encouraged her to help carry on his family’s connection to Yiddish theater. Twenty years later, that challenge has come full circle. After appearing in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Ocean’s 8—where she shared the opening scene with Sandra Bullock while eight months pregnant—and singing everywhere from Lincoln Center to The Town Hall, Rabbani is turning her attention back to her roots.
This fall, she’ll release a new klezmer album exploring a deceptively big question: What exactly is Jewish music? For a people whose identities span cultures, languages, traditions, and generations, Rabbani explores how music carries collective memory while continuing to evolve.
She joins Robert on The Roundtable for a BroadwayWorld exclusive about Yiddish theater, motherhood, her acting and music career, Jewish identity, and bringing an old-world sound boldly into 2026.
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