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I have seen the future of America — in a pastrami sandwich in Queens
San Wei, which serves pastrami sandwiches along with churros and biang biang noodles, represents an immigrant's fulfillment of the American dream
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Haunted by Love and Other Women
Natalie Portman can act! That’s the lesson this winter seems determined to teach us. The excruciating dead eyes of Padmé Amidala in the “Star Wars” movies are now a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. These days, Portman is poised to win an Oscar for her performance in the psychological thriller…
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Paid for Reading Tombs? It’s a Stele!
‘I’m a stelaeglyphologist,” Madaleine Isenberg writes, wanting to know what I think of the word. If you’ve never heard of a stelaeglyphologist, you’re in good company. No one has. “It’s a word,” Ms. Isenberg informs us, “that does not exist. I gave birth to it when I was really tired of trying to explain what…
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February 11, 2011
100 Years Ago in the Forward Abraham Pariz, a tailor, is in critical condition in a hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side after being shot in the neck, allegedly by his estranged, dressmaker wife. According to Mr. Pariz, his wife, with whom he has lived on and off for the past eight years, came over…
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Books Five Not-As-Terrible-As-You-Think Comedy Movies
Saul Austerlitz is the author of “Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy.” His blog posts are appearing this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog series. For more information on the series please visit: In writing my book “Another Fine Mess: A…
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Shoah: The Next Generation
Once They Had a Country: Two Teenage Jewish Refugees in the Second World War By Muriel R. Gillick University of Alabama Press, 240 pages, $19.95 Out on a Ledge: Enduring the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Beyond By Eva Libitzky and Fred Rosenbaum Wicker Park Press, 276 pages, $16.95 As the generation of Shoah survivors reaches…
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Moses: The Video Opera
To say that Yoav Gal’s “Mosheh,” playing in New York City’s HERE through February 5, is an opera about the life of Moses is to understate the exhilarating complexity of the work. Those expecting a simple linear retelling of the biblical story won’t find it here: Gal uses Exodus less as a plot blueprint than…
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Books Messing Around on Tour
Saul Austerlitz is the author of “Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy.” His blog posts are appearing this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog series. For more information on the series please visit: Being on tour for a book is simultaneously…
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The Night New York’s Chinese Went Out for Jews
On a spring evening in 1903, in New York City’s Chinatown, a line snaked down Doyers Street from the Chinese Theatre as Manhattan played host to an improbable coming together of two immigrant communities: Chinese and Jews. They were queuing up for a Chinese-organized benefit performance for victims of the Kishinev pogrom that, the previous…
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Hope in November
GOD’S OPTIMISM By Yehoshua November Main Street Rag, 80 pages, $14 By Eve Grubin Gerard Manley Hopkins stopped writing poetry because he worried that its rhythms were too sensual for a Jesuit priest. Fortunately, Hopkins’s religious superior encouraged him to write, and we now have the musical, muscular Hopkins poems that explode with awe for…
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The Woman Who Remade the Jewish Museum
After 30 years as director of New York’s Jewish Museum, Joan Rosenbaum announced in December that she would be stepping down from the post at the end of June. Few would deny that during Rosenbaum’s tenure, the Jewish Museum has become a powerhouse of art and creativity, both in the Jewish world and in the…
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Film & TV Finding New Life As a Cult Classic
Take a barefoot American hippie clad in a rabbit-skin jacket and a bowler hat, trying to run away from the traumatic memories of the Vietnam War by traveling to Israel, of all places; a sexy redheaded vixen who can’t seem to keep her shirt on for longer than a few minutes, and a naive flower…
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