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The towering Jewish critic who taught me to grok art and hate Picasso
After Max Kozloff died at 91, a New York community came together to remember and to mourn
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Tracing Galicia: A Talk With Omer Bartov
The great and yet never autonomous province of Galicia was a bridge to the East from Europe. Today, Galicia is centered in Ukraine, with a significant portion partitioned into neighboring Poland. The proper name of this phantom land was once “The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria,” named after its principal Ukrainian, or Ruthenian, cities. At…
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Hora – A History Of The Most Famous Jewish Dance
‘If you have ever been to a Jewish wedding,” New York Times science writer Natalie Angier wrote two weeks ago, “you know that sooner or later the ominous notes of ‘Hava Nagila’ will sound, and you will be expected to dance the hora. And if you don’t really know how to dance the hora, you…
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Seventh Night Yid Vid: We Are All Jelly Donuts
Israeli machismo died in Ramat Poleg.
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Sixth Night Yid Vid: Yidcore Channels Adam Sandler
For more on Australia’s greatest Jewish punk band, read this and this.
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Fifth Night Yid Vid: Al Qaeda Hanukkah
Maybe this guy was right after all.
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Lauren Redniss Draws Steven Heller
Lauren Redniss pays homage to design maven Steven Heller. Click here to view the larger image. The Masters Series: Steven Heller runs through December 8, 2007, at the Visual Arts Museum 209 East 23rd Street, New York, N.Y., 10010. Call 212-592-2145
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December 7, 2007
100 Years Ago in the forward Eight months ago, Mary Ershansky’s husband abandoned her. He left Ershansky, a young, penniless Jewish mother, and the couple’s two children with nothing. A neighbor, Mrs. Cohen, took them in after they were evicted, but Ershansky’s situation hasn’t improved. She has a 1-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy. The…
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Third Night Yid Vid: Hanukkah as an Excuse to Pester NBA Stars
It’s good to know that Hanukkah has the Ron Artest seal of approval. Here’s another video from the same guy from last year: Below is a video of a much funnier Jewish nudnik pestering NBA stars. Alas, it doesn’t have anything to do with Hanukkah:
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Spinning Into the Spotlight
Breaking news! The humble, unassuming dreidel, the four-sided top associated with Hanukkah, has finally come of age: It’s become a stamp. Now I don’t know about you, but the sight of an official American postal stamp that features a thimble-sized dreidel accompanied by bold lettering that spells out the word HAN-UK-KAH lifts my spirits. Hanukkah,…
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Rabbis and Chickens
Rabbis & Their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930 By Ira Robinson University of Calgary Press, 200 pages, $34.95. On a wintry Friday afternoon, at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital, I was taking leave of my father, who, in the last year of his life, was recovering from a severe bout…
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Where Once They Burned Books…
Most Jewish-related anniversaries in Germany are commemorations of tragedy. But this season marked 25 years since the establishment of a remarkable postwar creation — a feat of hope and foresight happily enjoying continued success. Located steps away from the shopping district on Kurfürstendamm, the Literaturhandlung is one of seven shops throughout Germany that make up…
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