Daniel Brook
By Daniel Brook
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Culture My New York accent problem — and ours
You Talkin To Me: The Unruly History of New York English. By E.J. White. Oxford University Press, 320 pages, $19.95 I distinctly remember the moment, around age 10, when I realized that the word “quarter” had two “r”s in it. As the great-grandson of immigrants, three generations into an American journey from the Lower East…
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Culture Jewish Gangsters Get Their Day at Museum
In the mid-20th century, a cadre of tough Jews, shedding the bookish bearing of exile, went forth to create a new society in a forbidding desert. Armed to the teeth, they lived outside the law and built their outpost by any means necessary. Against all odds, despite implacable enemies, the desert bloomed. Think you already…
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