Allan M. Jalon
By Allan M. Jalon
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	  Music How Evgeny Kissin Became a One-Man Yiddish Pride MovementIn a poem Evgeny Kissin wrote in Yiddish, he looks forward to the Jewish program he’s set to perform on December 16 at Carnegie Hall: In Kenedi-Tsenter af yidish hob ikh shoyn geshalt, / un opgeshatst hobm es hoykh i a yid, i a goy / Kh’vel es ton in kumendikn yor oykh in Karnegi… 
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	  Culture How Marlon Brando Became Godfather to the JewsShortly into “Listen to Me Marlon,” a fascinating new documentary about Marlon Brando spoken almost completely in his own voice, comes a startling glimpse of Brando’s life-changing plunge into the Jewish experience of the 20th century. Drawn largely from diaristic audio tapes he made, combined with a wide range of cinematic imagery, the ruminations start… 
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	  Culture On Alexandre, the Greatest Jewish Composer You’ve Never Heard ofWhen “Ida” received the Oscar for best foreign film, it put a global spotlight on a Polish story about that nation’s struggle to face Jewish memories from the Nazi era. Earlier this year, the Los Angeles Philharmonic gave a concert that touched on these themes in a different way. The orchestra performed the long-awaited American… 
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	  News My Opa’s story of World War I’s other fightIf the war was the 20th Century's original sin, it started in the east 
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	  Culture A New Jersey Tale of Two Alfred Doblins — and One UmlautI was dozing in front of the TV when I lifted one eyelid to see Rachel Maddow interviewing a man with a trim beard and a startling name: Alfred Doblin. They were discussing Chris Christie and the Bridgegate scandal. Maddow described her guest as the editorial page editor of the Bergen Record, a New Jersey… 
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