Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the most obvious dark horses had fallen by the wayside in the marathon balloting, when the name of Jacob Meyer, the popular mayor of Minneapolis, emerged out of nowhere: a Jew! Dare we nominate a Jew? Can a Jew be elected? The 40th ballot began. Suddenly. Jacob Meyer received an urgent note asking for an immediate private meeting with the leaders of the American Jewish Human Relations Council. (Three other Jewish organizations were waiting in three other rooms with three different views to express, but he didn't know.) The head of the organization said: "Jacob, we urge...
Forbes again demonstrated his excellent taste with two American folk songs arranged by John Jacob Niles and J. Colman and an Irish ballad done by the late Archibald Davidson. Emily Romney sang The Gambler's Wife with a freedom that never became hackneyed...
Today three of the most illustrious zaddikim live in the U.S., notably the Rabbi Jacob Joseph Twersky, from the Ukrainian town of Skvir and known as "the Skvirer Rabbi," who came to Brooklyn in 1948.* Six years ago, deciding that the city pressed too hard on community piety and godly raising of children, the Skvirer Rabbi moved with his followers about 40 miles from Manhattan to a 130-acre farm near the heavily Jewish village of Spring Valley. Here they planned a Hasidic haven of five-room cottages and laid out streets named for Presidents of the U.S. They intended...
...bright a palette or so bold a brush and still achieve so sorrowful a mood. Purplish blues lie alongside acid greens; reds and yellows vie for attention yet do not seem to clash. Nor do the ragged rhythms of the paintings ever get out of control. Tension mounts in Jacob Lawrence's paintings, but the threatened disorder never takes place...
When an obscure Brooklyn composer named Sholom Secunda was writing songs for the Yiddish theater in the '303, he and Lyricist Jacob Jacobs would peddle the copyrights to music publishers for $15 apiece, and they were happy to get the money. One day in 1937, Secunda heard a familiar sound coming out of the jukeboxes of Flatbush. The Andrews Sisters had picked up one of his tunes, cut a record for Decca with new lyrics, and all over the U.S. people were dancing...