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Writer Shalom Auslander catalogs his lifelong battle with self-contempt in 'Feh'
5 months ago

Writer Shalom Auslander catalogs his lifelong battle with self-contempt in 'Feh'

NPR  

Writer Shalom Auslander catalogs his lifelong battle with self-contempt in 'Feh' Auslander has written for decades about growing up in a dysfunctional household within an ultra-orthodox Jewish community. AUSLANDER: But when you're told that all the things that are happening to you or you're feeling are evil or wrong, it's 10 times worse, and you don't want to see yourself …

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Dealing with Holocaust trauma through music
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Dealing with Holocaust trauma through music

Hindustan Times  

Poems set to music by Jewish women who survived the Holocaust feature in the album "Silent Tears." Topping the world music charts In March 2023, "Silent Tears" climbed the charts and reached number 1 in the European World Music charts. World music award for 'impressive testimony to Jewish culture' Germany's largest folk-roots-world music festival, held in Rudolstadt, Thuringia, is now …

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How "Fiddler on the Roof" helped usher in the Jewish Pride movement of the 1960s
1 year, 5 months ago

How "Fiddler on the Roof" helped usher in the Jewish Pride movement of the 1960s

Salon  

The great Sheldon Harnick, who died June 23 at 99, was a uniquely accomplished American lyricist. Instead, Jewish pride gave rise to popular entertainment: Mel Brooks' movies, Lenny Bruce's stand-up and "Fiddler on the Roof." Not long after Jewish author Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" had launched second-wave feminism, Harnick introduced the shtetl of Anatevka and its quaint ways through …

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Yiddish course returns to University of Amsterdam
1 year, 10 months ago

Yiddish course returns to University of Amsterdam

NL Times  

From today, students can take the Yiddish course at the University of Amsterdam again. The vernacular spoken by many Jews in European cities for centuries has not been taught in the Netherlands since the death of professor Shlomo Berger, AT5 reports. “I would have been happy with ten students, but that turned out to be 53,” lecturer Daniella Zaidman-Mauer said …

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At 16, he escaped a fringe Jewish sect accused of child abuse. Now he’s fighting to get his family out
1 year, 10 months ago

At 16, he escaped a fringe Jewish sect accused of child abuse. Now he’s fighting to get his family out

LA Times  

Yoel Levy had just woken up in his apartment outside Tel Aviv one Saturday last fall when he received a long-awaited phone call. It wasn’t long before Lev Tahor moved again, dispersing to southern and central Mexico in an attempt to evade Israeli authorities who leaders said were zeroing in on the group. “It’s the only Jewish place.” :: Levy …

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Berlin's beloved (and loathed) local dialect
2 years ago

Berlin's beloved (and loathed) local dialect

BBC  

Berlin's beloved local dialect Adam Kuylenstierna/Getty Images Berliners have a reputation for being generally cold, outspoken and rude. Dr Peter Rosenberg, a West Berlin-born linguist whose familiarity with Berliner Schnauze comes from years of study and lived experience, describes it as a "schlagfertig", or quick-witted linguistic game. "In a certain sense, the Berliner Schnauze refers to taking advantage of the …

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Review: Heifetz debut blends immigrant experience, Americana
2 years, 8 months ago

Review: Heifetz debut blends immigrant experience, Americana

Associated Press  

“First Generation American,” Elliah Heifetz Singer-songwriter Elliah Heifetz’s debut album is a cheerful reminder Americana has roots in many countries. Heifetz was raised on food stamps in Philadelphia as the son of Soviet political refugees, and his melting pot musical mix ranges from Eastern European folk and Yiddish theater to Jimmy Buffett and John Prine. Heifetz’s voice could be mistaken …

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A return to vegetarian Jewish cuisine
2 years, 10 months ago

A return to vegetarian Jewish cuisine

BBC  

A return to vegetarian Jewish cuisine Lauren Volo for the Gefilte Manifesto, Flatiron Books A berry soup by modern chef Jeffrey Yoskowitz, inspired by Fania Lewando’s The Vilna Vegetarian Pastrami, schnitzel, gefilte fish: Jewish food isn't often known as plant-based. From Los Angeles, California and Cleveland, Ohio, to New York's Lower East Side and Brooklyn – where most Ashkenazi Jewish …

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Indecent review, Menier Chocolate Factory: An extraordinary, ambitious production
3 years, 3 months ago

Indecent review, Menier Chocolate Factory: An extraordinary, ambitious production

The Independent  

In 1907, Polish playwright Sholem Asch was advised to burn the manuscript for his new play God of Vengeance. This extraordinary production at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory, directed by Rebecca Taichman – which is making a triumphant return after it was shut down just two days into its run in March 2020 – charts God of Vengeance’s journey over the …

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Jackie Mason's thorny career: Once a beacon for Jewish pride, the comedian later turned to bigotry
3 years, 4 months ago

Jackie Mason's thorny career: Once a beacon for Jewish pride, the comedian later turned to bigotry

Salon  

Jackie Mason died on Saturday, and if you only learned who he was during the last five years or so, you might have thought "Good riddance." By the end of his life, Mason — an accomplished Jewish comedian with a legendarily up-and-down career — had become a Trump supporter known for cantankerous appearances on conservative talk shows. First, Carl Reiner …

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The forgiveness tour: How letting go of a grudge healed me
3 years, 11 months ago

The forgiveness tour: How letting go of a grudge healed me

Salon  

Excerpted from " The Forgiveness Tour: How to Find the Perfect Apology " by Susan Shapiro. "I can't figure out why he lied about treating my student when he promised not to," I said, still distressed about his deception six months later. I scrolled down to see his email was responding to a question I'd sent in September: "Don't head …

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