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Culture & Traditions:

Yiddish Musical Theater

Oral tradition dies never: Yiddish musical theater, from Eastern Europe to the Lower East Side Like any folk or traditional music, Yiddish music came into

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What’s in a name?

Sandra Aboulafia, interviewed May 30, 2012, Brooklyn Borough Hall: My family is both Sephardic and Ashkenazi. Aboulafia is a very, very old name. It can be

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Remembering Maurice Sendak

Brooklyn-born, Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized

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