Word: dispersionism
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Image presents a candid mosaic of Jewish life in Poland. What emerges from the film's patchwork is a coherent portrait of a flourishing culture. Aspiring writers flock to Warsaw to study under Y.L. Peretz, the dean of Yiddish literature. In the town of Vilna, the Jewish community establishes schools...
"I guess the sound is three things," says Scholz. "Power guitars, the harmony vocals and the double-guitar leads." He was heavily influenced by "raunchy stuff, like Cream and Led Zeppelin." He first heard a dual-guitar harmony on an old Zep cut, How Many More Times, and expanded the...
This independence and geographical dispersion were exactly what Congress had in mind when, spearheaded by Virginia Senator Carter Glass, it created the Federal Reserve after a fight in 1913 between easy-money Westerners and hard-money Easterners. The Westerners wanted to be sure that the Fed would never be dominated...
Diaspora is a big magazine--52 pages of expression. What this briskly trotting publication needs now, in the desert that still is the Harvard-Radcliffe literary scene, is oases--Diaspora ("a dispersion as of people of a common national culture into other countries") is crying out for reading.
But there is a more crucial reason, hinted at in an earlier chapter titled "The American Response," why these contemporary survivors hardly survive as real people in Howe's book. Although Howe obviously did not have the space to cite more than a few examples, the overall impression left by...