Yiddish Musical Theater
June 5, 2022
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?
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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
Remembering Maurice Sendak
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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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By JOHN LELAND , New York Times Published: March 9, 2013 At age 6, he was a budding yeshiva student, in white shirt and black hat, with little
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By Malya Levin, The Jewish Daily Forward, March 12, 2013 “How could a kosher restaurant have opened in Park Slope without my knowing about it?” I unceremoniously
Jewish Population Is Up in the New York Region
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By SHARON OTTERMANPublished: NYTimes January 17, 2013 Borough Park in Brooklyn, with its preponderance of Orthodox synagogues and kosher restaurants, is the most Jewish area in the
