Out and About: Too Much of Alfred Kazin; Eli Valley Draws His Mom
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Oy! Chicago gets fed up with the Millionaire Matchmaker.
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Mel Brooks talks to Newsweek/The Daily Beast about Jewish humour and the “cloak of gentile correctness.”
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Jeffrey Shandler writes for Zeek about utopia, nostalgia, and photographer Albert J. Winn’s pictures of abandoned summer camps.
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In Commentary, Joseph Epstein argues that the publication of Alfred Kazin’s journals tells us more than we needed to know.
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Forward artist-in-residence Eli Valley draws a comic for Saveur about his mother’s cooking.
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Eddy Portnoy appreciates rabbi, wrestler and business magnate Rafael Halperin.
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D.G. Myers has a list of American Jewish fiction that shouldn’t be forgotten.
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Did Michael Jackson learn the moonwalk from a French Jewish mime?
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Forward contributor Joshua Furst imagines the final days of Muammar Gadhafi for salon.
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The Arty Semite contributor Margaret Eby appreciates the life and work of Alabama folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham in the Paris Review.
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In the Jewish Press, Richard McBee reviews two new political art shows about Israel and terrorism.
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On the Yiddish Song of the Week blog, Itzik Gottesman introduces the ballad “Vus tisti du sheyn meydele?” (What Are You Doing Here Pretty Girl?”), sung by his mother, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman.
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Aviva Kempner, director of “Yoo Hoo Mrs Goldberg,” is working on a new documentary about Chicago business magnate Julius Rosenwald and his collaboration with Booker T. Washington to build schools in the South.
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Serge Benattar, founder of France’s premiere Jewish newspaper, has died at age 63.