New Yiddish Rep is celebrating Arthur Miller’s centennial (October 17) with a revival (with English supertitles) of Joseph Buloff’s Yiddish version of Death of a Salesman. Director Moshe Yassur considers the 1949 Pulitzer Prize winner a “very Jewish play.” The Yiddish version (Toyt Fun a Seylsman) takes “a more modern approach,” he says, with actor Avi Hoffman playing Willy Loman as a German Jewish immigrant and “the victim of his own dream with commercialism.”

“What we see [with Loman] is early-onset Alzheimer’s,” the 58-year-old Hoffman suggests. “It’s an important piece at the right time.”

Through November 22 at the Castillo Theatre, Off Broadway. Go to the New Yiddish Rep website for other venues, go to www.newyiddishrep.org.