JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
I don’t know if it makes anyone else’s top 10, but “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” is one of the most Jewish movies I’ve ever seen. Or the most Jewish movie I’ve seen 120 times. I worked as an usher at Chicago’s Carnegie Theater when it premiered, in 1974, and still know it by heart….
Duddy Kravitz is back. Mordecai Richler’s iconic Montreal shvitzer will return to life this month in a hometown musical with all-star bona fides: Score by showbiz giant Alan Menken, book by dramatist/author David Spencer, and theater mainstay Austin Pendleton in the director’s chair. But “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,” which premiered June 7 at Montreal’s…
He won a slew of awards, had his books translated into multiple languages, and captured the soul of Jewish Montreal in novels like “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” and “Barney’s Version” — both adapted into big-budget Hollywood productions. But Mordecai Richler doesn’t merit the renaming of a street or other public place in the Plateau…
