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Jennifer Bleyer, the founding editor of Heeb magazine and one of the my favorite young writers on Jewish (and non-Jewish) topics, has written a great first-person piece for Nextbook on “The Jewish Catalog,” the counterculture-era Do-It-Yourself compendium that taught her parents’ generation that Judaism “could be fun.” And she thought it was pretty cool, too.
The full article here.
אַ פּאָרפֿאָלק כּלי־זמרים, לעבן געבליבענע פֿון חורבן, לאָזן איבער אַן אַרכיוו זכרונות פֿון מוזיק און גלותדיקייט.
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