Rootless Cosmopolitan

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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

From Cleveland to the New York Times

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You guys know about Bert Stratton and Cleveland's own Yiddishe Cup Band , right? But Bert isn't just a talented musician. He's a...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Psoy Korolenko and his Dialect(ic) Humor

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Hey, lookit! I wrote a profile of the incomparable Psoy Korolenko for the Forward .
Saturday, February 25, 2012

נישט אהין און נישט אהער

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Nisht ahin un nisht aher ... neither here nor there Back before he was writing the Letter from China for the New Yorker, Yiddish-surname-...
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Friday, January 20, 2012

Forwards

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Hey! I'm on the virtual pages of the Yiddish Forward . Pretty cool, huh? The English Forward also gave this blog a nice shout out the o...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Yiddisher Than Thou

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Have you seen this ? ' Mother Tongue: A passionate, crusading Yiddisher tries to keep the Eastern European language alive in the cosmopo...
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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Shane Bertram Baker via the magic of Vaudephone!

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Check out this fantastic clip of Shane Baker performing astounding feats of mesmerism most foul. If you like that (and even if you d...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Men Act, Women Watch John Berger Talk About Painting

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It's art history. It's Marxism. It's feminism. It's cultural criticism. With just a dash of fun, ironic fonts. This is John ...
Friday, January 6, 2012

Rootless Cosmopolitan, Born in the Final Days of Cut and Paste Publishing

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In late 2002 I got some news from the ed. board of a magazine called ' Heeb '. My angry letter to the editor was ...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Get On My Bookshelf!

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Hey, you guys learned about Dibbuk Boxes in Hebrew school, right? You know... haunted Jewish winebox es. (Well, we didn't call it a hau...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Straw Man

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As noted in my previous  post ,  the theme of Yiddish!Revival! is a journalistic evergreen, no matter  how long the so-called revival has be...
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Rokhl Kafrissen is a journalist, playwright, attorney, and Jewish world gadfly in New York City.
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