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...sheer technical mastery of pantomime, dialect, timing and the ad lib, Caesar has a creative gift for spoofing the stuffy and the phony and for finding endless fun in universal human foibles and frustrations. His career, which began as a $10-a-week saxophonist on New York's borsch circuit, has made him a millionaire. It has brought him a $100,000 Long Island home with swimming pool and three servants; a duplex Manhattan penthouse office suite that boasts a rehearsal hall and a Rouault; seven years of psychoanalysis, and such possessions as 50 broad-shouldered suits...
...Soup: borsch...
This is an appealing little autobiographical sketch, now published in English, by a writer who was as close to the folk stream of East European Jewish life as blintzes and borsch. In countless stories (The Old Country, Adventures of Mattel) he humorously chronicled the bittersweet life of the late 19th-century eastern ghettos-pious, self-contained, but poised on the brink of a new Diaspora to Western Europe and America. Born Solomon Rabinowitz, and raised in the little village of Voronko, Russia, the hero of The Great Fair is a "pretty boy with fat red cheeks," who can convulse...
...inquisitive British sportswriter. "Always questions having to do with food. Why do you never ask about important things like culture, like museums, like art?" Exasperatedly he admitted that a cook was coming up from the Soviet embassy in London to help Mrs. Pearce prepare such delicacies as borsch and kasha...
Harry Dichter is a waiter at Philadelphia's Ambassador Vegetarian and Dairy Restaurant (pickled herring, lox salad, borsch, carp). The customers know that he is fast, polite and can instantly memorize a complicated order without making a mishmash out of it. What many do not know is that Harry, at 53, is also a man of music. He is one of the top collectors and publishers of American music in the U.S., although, as he admits, "I can't read or play a note...