The Chanukah show has been a staple in Los Angeles, which, before its first airing in 1978, had been missing this classic blend of Yiddishkeit: folk music, readings of Isaac Bashevis Singer\’s stories, memorials to Holocaust victims, Second Avenue \”hit parade\” songs.
\”I Killed\” features headliners like Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Jonathan Winters and Shelley Berman for the first time telling tales away from the \”comedy caravans\” and \”yuk-yuks\” and even yuckier joints they endured while perfecting their craft.
Welcome to fall: The time of High Holidays, contemplation, repentance and really, really long services.
And did I mention TV?
This is not your grandmother\’s Jewish music. Like other recent Jewish parody CDs, \”Meshugeneh Mambo\” carries on the tradition of Jewish humor popularized by such forbearers as Mickey Katz and Allan Sherman.
\”A lot of people went to Israel when the country was new and bought Yemenite art, but they didn\’t tell you it was Yemenite,\” said the museum\’s director and founder, Norma Kershaw. \”Ancient or modern, whatever people have\” would be welcomed.
Block\’s father owned the lithograph collection, because he was a childhood friend of Abraham Rattner\’s publisher, New York art dealer Bill Haber.
In her multimedia show, Marisa Carnesky examines the Jewish tattoo taboo by fusing elements of Yiddish melodrama, Victorian sideshows and Grand Guignol theater.
Is Jewish the new gay? That\’s how it\’s looking this season on NBC\’s \”Will and Grace.\”
If RockFour comes bearing an agenda, it is decidedly more in tune with the Beach Boys\’ Brian Wilson than with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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