Israel’s only Yiddish theatre group, Britain’s oldest female stand-up and a drag queen from London are among the performers confirmed for this year’s Limmud Festival.

Yiddishpiel was established in 1987 to revive Yiddish, which had almost disappeared from the Jewish state.

Ohio-born Lynn Ruth Miller, who began performing comedy 16 years ago at the age of 70, describes herself as the oldest female stand-up “on both sides of the Atlantic”.

Actor, composer and drag queen Guy Woolf will perform his show, The Chronicles of Electra, about the identity struggles of a young Jewish girl.

Also appearing at the festival, which runs from December 22 to 26 in Birmingham, will be Shais Rishon, an African-American Orthodox rabbi who writes and speaks under the name of MaNishtana.

Ben Lewis, the festival co-chair, is also delighted to be welcoming the chairman of the Jewish Agency, Isaac Herzog, who will join “our many other presenters to create what will no doubt be a memorable, unmissable event where every participant can discover something new”.