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Part 2 by Kenneth Kann To read Part 1, click here. I CONDUCTED hundreds more interviews in the years ahead: the children of the immigrants, the grandchildren, and the new suburban settlers who inherited the community. The immigrant children were the generation of my own American-born parents. Here was an assimilation drama. They grew up […]
Read MoreA RESOURCE FROM JEWISH CURRENTS’ SCHAPPES CENTER FOR CULTURAL JEWISH LIFE (Sponsored, in part, by the Kurz Family Foundation. Illustration [above] from Richard Codor and Lawrence Bush’s Babushkin’s Catalogue of Jewish Inventions.) KHANIKE (that’s the YIVO-style transliteration of the Yiddish pronunciation for Hanukkah, which we use to honor Yiddish culture) is one of the […]
Read MoreTHE YOM KIPPUR CANTOR — SOMEONE TO ENVY Translated from the Yiddish by Curt Leviant IN ALL of Kasrilevke’s history, there was no finer funeral than Reb Melekh the Cantor’s. Reb Melekeh was a pauper, the poorest of the poor, just like the rest of the people in the shtetl of Kasrilevke. He was given […]
Read Moreby Alessio Franko IT STREAMED live on Facebook: In protest of Texas state Senate Bill 8, which bans a reliable form of late-term abortion and piles on bureaucratic obstacles to abortion access, three young women occupied the capitol building in Austin and read aloud true stories of women who struggled to get the abortions they needed. […]
Read MorePlease take a look at Nina Paley’s brilliantly sardonic “This Land Is Mine,” the strongest statement you’ll ever see for a two-state solution in the Middle East, right now! Paley’s films include the full-length animation, Sita Sings the Blues. She is committed to freeing art, including her own, from copyright restriction. Enjoy her fantastic work […]
Read MoreTHE SUCCESS of our Autumn 2015 issue dedicated to the commemoration of Jewish resistance to Nazism has prompted us to create a traveling exhibit on the subject. “Resistance Is the Lesson” tells the details about more than twenty acts of armed resistance against Nazi oppression, in ghettos, concentration camps, and the forests and fields of […]
Read MoreJewish Currents has been running its “Off the Stage!” feature, with caricatures and one-liners of young Jewish stand-up comics, in its print edition for nearly two years. Five of these are artfully strung together in this video.
Read MoreIntroduction by Dr. Lewis R. Shurtz and Helena Day, MSW, with Lawrence Bush We all get that intuitive feeling, at one time or another, that “something’s coming, something good,” as Tony sings it in West Side Story. Never mind that he ends up getting killed by Chino; the important thing is that Tony also got […]
Read MoreROSA LUXEMBURG’S JEWISH LIFE AND COMPLICATED LEGACY by Helen Engelhardt from the Summer 2016 issue of Jewish Currents “If they expect us to murder our French or other foreign brothers, then let us tell them — under no circumstances!” A SHORT, frail woman with a clumsy limp had taken the stage at Fechenheim, a district […]
Read Moreby Mitchell Abidor Discussed in this essay: 4 3 2 1, by Paul Auster. Henry Holt, 866 pages, 2017. IT WAS SOMETIME around thirty years ago that I met and interviewed Paul Auster. He was not yet the star of world literature he now is, at the time widely known in small circles for the […]
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