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Listening In to the Field of Jewish Pop, High and Low
In music, as in life, there are cool kids and misfits. And in music, as in life, you sometimes find yourself rooting for the underdog. At least that’s what I found myself doing one recent afternoon, as I alternated between “Let’s Go Shleppin’!” a new CD by Meshugga Beach Party, out of Southern California, and…
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April 4, 2008
100 Years Ago in the forward On Monday night, the New Atlantic Dance Hall, located on Manhattan’s Lower East Side on Delancey Street between Forsyth and Chrystie Streets, was packed with hundreds of young Jews, all having a fine time, dancing the night away. At about 10 p.m., the manager, Isadore Weissman, noticed the presence…
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Myths and Facts
A common belief that turns out to be a myth, and an assumed myth that might be true: This is the balance sheet of my March 14 column, “Last Names, Lost In Translation.” For believing in the myth, I have been properly chastised by Arthur S. Abramson of Mansfield, Conn., and the novelist Dara Horn….
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Film & TV David’s the Singer, He’s the Rapper
Oded Turgeman, director of the new short film “Song of David,” doesn’t do things the easy way. As a burgeoning film director, he applied to Jerusalem’s most prestigious film school, with a commander in a combat unit as his only prior life experience. Then he moved to America to attend the American Film Institute —the…
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Unterzakhn, Part 4
Read this week’s installment of Leela Corman’s new graphic novel, “Unterzakhn,” which is being serialized in the Forward. (Or, to start at the very beginning, click here). CLICK FOR LARGER VIEW
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Yid Vid: Two Ways of Celebrating Purim
The Nahariya way: The Bobover way:
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Are There Israeli Palestinians?
We may be through with my columns on “Arab Jews,” but not with some of the issues raised by them. Here’s a letter from Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld of Carlsbad, Calif.: “I have another, similar conundrum. A pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel lady with whom I wasted several months in fruitless correspondence referred in one of her communications to…
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Marvel’s Mavens
Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero By Danny Fingeroth Continuum, 183 pages, $24.95. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America By David Hajdu Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 448 pages, $26. The history of comics has been big recently, and there’ve been a number of…
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The Eye, And I, of the Ethnographer
Ashantee By Peter Altenberg Translated by Katharina von Hammerstein Ariadne Press, 128 pages, $15. In 1896, a group of people from the Ashanti tribe was displayed in an ethnographic exhibit in Vienna’s Prater, huts erected amid its Tiergarten, or zoo. There, to the delight of 5,000 to 6,000 visitors a day, they sang, danced the…
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Just Say ‘Nu?’: Latrine Detail
‘Inter faeces et urinam nascimur,” wrote Saint Augustine, who just became the first Church Father ever quoted in a guide to Yiddish conversation. “We are born between feces and urine,” he says, so let’s not get carried away with ourselves; the birth canal through which all of us enter this world is located between the…
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The Virtues of the Unaffiliated
It’s all about the unaffiliated. Ask anyone who runs a Jewish not-for-profit, and she’ll tell you: Success is measured in terms of how many “unaffiliated” Jews you get to “affiliate” — whether with Jewishness, Judaism or, at the very least, the latest program, trend or synagogue-outreach initiative. Organizations that don’t focus on the unaffiliated have…
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