Rootless Cosmopolitan

Rootless Cosmopolitan

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Political Art and the Art of Politics: Arthur Szyk and More in the Golden City

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Hey! Have you been following my new 'all things Yidd-ish' column over at Tablet? It's called, in all modesty, Rokhl's Golden...
Monday, April 17, 2017

A Night in the Old Marketplace Returns to New York City

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Holy shit. This fall will mark my 20th anniversary living here in the Big Apple. I think I'm gonna need some more time to digest t...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Accounting for the Counters: Important New Scholarship on the State of Jewish Demography

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I just saw an intriguing article in the Times of Israel, Numbers game: Do Jewish leaders manipulate existential fears with statistics?   It...
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Friday, April 7, 2017

Wishing You a Nonsense Free Springtime Festival - My Latest for Haaretz

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Last week slimy Brexit cheerleader and nasty little UKIP troll Nigel Farage trolled us once again, this time claiming (incorrectly) that Cad...
Saturday, October 29, 2016

Where Do Statistics Come From?

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The 2013 study Pew survey of American Jews served up some sobering statistics, most notably, that the intermarriage rate for American Jews w...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

How Do You Say Email In Yiddish

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How do you say 'email' in Yiddish ? I'll admit, this New York Times piece about the new Comprehensive Yiddish-English Diction...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Fierce Guardians of Memory: Female Historians of the Holocaust

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Hello friends. I just published what is probably to date  the most personally meaningful piece I've written for Haaretz . It's about...
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Monday, September 5, 2016

Fyvush

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2016 has been quite a year of loss. At times it feels like you've only just registered one when the next comes along. It's not a go...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Dress British, Think Yiddish (Theater)

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Through the wonders of social media I recently made the acquaintance of playwright/journalist/historian/mid-western Jew of all trades, Max S...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Master of Ceremonies

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Maybe you haven't heard? Joel Grey just published a memoir and it is fabulous . Being a Mickey Katz obsessive, I had a special incentive...
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Rokhl Kafrissen is a journalist, playwright, attorney, and Jewish world gadfly in New York City.
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