Rootless Cosmopolitan

Rootless Cosmopolitan

Sunday, December 30, 2018

Unusual Jews

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Happy almost goyish New Year!   (Jump to the bottom for a couple juicy Yiddish events) Despite having a disgusting cold, I just spent a m...
Friday, December 21, 2018

Yep, It's a Thing

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My latest for Hey Alma, Yiddish Porn is Officially a Thing , is up now. My editor made me take out the best pun, though. Annie Sprinkle ha...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

My Great-Grandfather Wasn't a Bundist

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It's the end of the year and I'm shaking things up a little. I've posted two long read essays over at Medium . One is called My ...
Saturday, December 1, 2018

Kortn-shpiln iz an umglik -- and other lessons from Yiddish Communists

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Hey! It's Khanike and my new Golden City is here, all about the weirdness of everyone's favorite eight day festival of something so...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

Reincarnation of a Frog and Other Anthems

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(R ead my latest Rokhl's Golden City about transmigrations and Socalled now ) Last night Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird brought the...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

The Yiddish Tevye That Might've Been...

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There's a rumor (ahem) that the Folksbiene's smash production of Fiddler oyfn dakh is getting extended and moving to an off-Broadwa...
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Saturday, October 27, 2018

Isaac Bashevis Singer Doesn't Have a Cold

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You know that classic celebrity profile ‘ Frank Sinatra Has a Cold ’? Gay Talese spent months tailing Frank Sinatra, trying to get an inter...
Saturday, October 13, 2018

Skepticism and Yearning

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I have a new piece up over at the Lilith blog called Caught Between Skepticism and Yearning on the Holidays .  It's about that time I ...
Friday, October 5, 2018

Let's Talk About Coffee Talk

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Up now at Tablet, my first GOLDEN CITY of the fall season: two decades on, why we're still getting 'verklempt' over Linda Richm...
Saturday, September 8, 2018

Finding Happiness at the Maison du Bonheur

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Self-care can mean a lot of things: staying hydrated, meditating, saying 'no' as often as necessary... what I discovered this summer...
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Rokhl Kafrissen is a journalist, playwright, attorney, and Jewish world gadfly in New York City.
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