The Schmooze
Out and About
Image by Courtesy of HEEB
By Ezra Glinter March 5, 2012
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British historian Sir Martin Gilbert has won the $1 million Dan David Prize.
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The New York Oberserver was at HEEB’s 10th anniversary party.
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On the Yiddish Song of the Week blog, Itzik Gottesman writes about recording the Yiddish poet I. Berkovitch in Romania.
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Etgar Keret has a new short story, “Suddenly There’s a Knock on the Door,” in Guernica Magazine.
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Steve Dalachinsky gives a shout-out to Jake Marmer’s “Jazz Talmud” in the Brooklyn Rail.
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“Time,” the Israeli entry to the Eurovision song contest, has been released.
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Yiddish speakers are dwindling in South Florida.
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Radio host and world music impresario Erwin Frankel has died at age 76.
