Stephen Whitfield
By Stephen Whitfield
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Culture West Side Storied
Exactly half a century ago, lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II went to Washington, D.C., to attend the staging of a new musical that was slated to open in New York. He knew that nothing remotely like this production had ever reached Broadway. Until September 1957, its stages had not normally presented teenage hoodlums embroiled…
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News In the Spotlight
This is the fourth in a series of special sections celebrating the 350th anniversary of the arrival of Jews in the United States. In 1932, an aesthete from Iowa named Carl Van Vechten visited Vienna and reported back home that “they don’t play Johann [Strauss] here anymore; it’s all [George] Gershwin and [Irving] Berlin.” The…
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Yiddish פֿראַגעס פֿון אַ ייִדישיסטקע צו די שאַפֿערס פֿון „לידער מיט פּאַלעסטינע“Questions from a Yiddishist for the creators of the album ‘Lider mit Palestine’
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