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That time Yiddishists met extraterrestrials a short while ago in a galaxy not far away
It was a normal summer internship at the Yiddish Book Center ... until the Jedi invaded our turf
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Books Marjorie at Fifty-Five
This fall marks the 55th anniversary of the publication of Herman Wouk?s ?Marjorie Morningstar,? the novel that at its height ? what The Nation called the ?Age of Wouk? ? sold more copies than any American novel since ?Gone With the Wind.? ” photo-credit=”Image by EVELYN ROTZ (9/19/1924 – 9/6/2010) B??H,? BARA SAPIR” src=”https://images.forwardcdn.com/image/675x/center/images/cropped/grandma2-091510-1425715955.jpg”] ?Marjorie,?…
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Books Kosher, By Design
Orthodox by design By Jeremy Stolow University of California Press, 288 pages, $41.95 Despite the much-touted death of the physical book, the Orthodox Jewish publishing industry is booming. Perhaps because of the prohibition against using electricity on holidays or on the Sabbath, the ?ArtScroll revolution? is well under way. ?Orthodox by Design? by Jeremy Stolow…
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September 24, 2010
100 Years Ago in the forward Residents of Brooklyn?s East New York area have taken sides in the marriage drama of 70-year-old Marcus Ulman and 50-year-old Leah Fleisher. A mutual friend recently introduced the couple, a widower and widow, after Ulman took a shine to Fleisher. Ulman proposed marriage and even offered to throw in…
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Seeking Jazz or Sex Or Soup?
” photo-credit=”Image by COURTESY HARPER PERENNIAL” src=”https://images.forwardcdn.com/image/675x/center/images/cropped/152153-091510-1425715964.jpg”] ?Paste this on your hat, Ginsberg is the great poet of the Jews of the 20th Century in America and his position among Americans is commensurate with the extent of the importance of the position of the Jews themselves, naturally.? Thus wrote Jack Kerouac to Allen Ginsberg in…
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Homage To Fromage
Among her other achievements, Clare Burson may claim a place in history as the first composer of a song cycle inspired by a piece of cheese. Granted, the wedge in question is 117 years old, laden with family history, and imbued with near-mystical significance by Burson. Still, even she seems surprised at the power it…
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More Than Words
If Passover is the holiday of questions and answers, Yom Kippur is often the holiday of confusion and befuddlement. Why? On Passover, symbols rich in texture and history are explicitly explained within the Seder ritual; indeed, explaining is part of the point. Yet on Yom Kippur, ostensibly the holiest of days, suddenly we’re left to…
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Lost in Transmission
Each month when I sit down to write my column, the relevant facts — the who, what, when, where and why of it all — are generally arrayed before me. Not this time: Loose ends rather than tidy conclusions are destined to be the fate of this particular column. I recently came into possession of…
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B’Sha’a Tovah!
Congratulations, we’re expecting! That’s because the Jewish year 5771 that has just started is a “pregnant year,” a shana me’uberet in Hebrew. (Ubar in Hebrew is a fetus or embryo.) In other words, it’s a leap year, one in which the 12 regular months, six of 29 days and six of 30, “give birth” to…
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September 17, 2010
100 Years Ago in the Forward A tragedy occurred when a car hit 43-year-old Samuel Cohen on the corner of Delancey and Suffolk streets on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Brought to the hospital, Cohen later died from his injuries. The police dispatched an officer to inform Cohen’s family, who lives at 49 Avenue D, of…
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Bible Love
With All Thine Heart By Ilan Stavans with Mordecai Drache Rutgers University Press 2010, 21.95 MD: Why did you agree to delve into the Bible with me? IS: The Bible has been with me—or is it I who has been with the Bible?—since my early childhood. The biblical stories were ubiquitous in my Mexico City…
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Ruth Gruber 1911-2016 : A Charming Hostess and a Stickler for the Truth
Ruth Gruber, a ground-breaking journalist, woman of deep integrity and no-nonsense photographer who reported on Jewish rescues from Nazis as well as exiles in the Soviet Arctic died on November 17, aged 105. When most American reporters were stuck at home or needed a specialized photographer to make images, she doggedly bucked the trend taking…
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