Rootless Cosmopolitan

Rootless Cosmopolitan

Thursday, March 10, 2022

Jewlia Eisenberg and the Sphere of the Endless

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  Jewish Currents, July-August 2006 The Sphere of the Endless [New York City, summer 2006. In which your faithful columnist heads to Joe...
Sunday, January 30, 2022

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day , marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the last few ye...
Friday, August 27, 2021

Kum tsu mir (or, that time I translated Jimmy Buffett into Yiddish)

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If you've ever studied a second language, you know there's a huge difference between the skills needed for passive reading comprehen...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

In Case You Missed It....

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 My Rokhl's Golden City comes out twice a month. Are you caught up? Did you see: Talking to the Dead :  A few months ago Brooklyn witch...

Yiddish in the Mountains

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EDITED TO ADD : For kids my age ('80s babies) Jews in the Catskills means one thing: DIRTY DANCING. Well, on Tuesday, September 14, DIRT...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Streets of Fire is Finally on Netflix!

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(Crosspost from my  movie blog ) A couple months ago I wrote about the neon-and-leather fairy tale flop,  Streets of Fire . It's finally...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19

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On April 19, the Congress for Jewish Culture , along with Friends of the Bund, Jewish Labor Committee and Workers Circle, will once again ob...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

Adapting Jewish Literature: Yentl and A Tale of Love and Darkness (video)

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"Without hubris you will never be an artist..." -my teacher, Ruby Namdar Last week I had the honor of joining Ruby Namdar, Fania O...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

The Lives and Legacies of Jewish Women Who Resisted the Nazis (video)

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I'm pleased to say that video is now available for the live webinar I moderated on the role of Jewish women and resistance.  Wagner Coll...
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Saturday, March 13, 2021

Jewlia Eisenberg and the Music of the Spheres

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(read more about the new-old Yiddish rituals of mourning in my latest column )  A few days ago we got the terrible news that Jewlia Eisenbe...
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