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...shows,” Ingber says. But the duo already had the shows—so why not just start a club? Ingber, a former student in Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse’s Literature 166, “The Comic Tradition in Jewish Culture,” tapped into his professor’s enthusiasm when he asked Wisse to advise HSUCS. “Comedy plays an increasingly important role in American culture,” says Wisse. “Anything that is so important in the life of the country should...
Director Klein deftly balances the frenetic action of “Republic of Dreams” with the play’s contrasting moments of serenity. Her skillful use of curtains throughout the production aptly reflects the many layers of the Jewish culture the play references. One remarkably beautiful scene depicts the disrobing of Bianca and Schulz’s family maid, Adela (Jeremy Louise Eaton), behind these airy curtains...
...bellowed, "Funny's a male gene, idiot." Actually, that is funny, when you consider that the May-directed Heartbreak Kid has it all over the new version in humor, perspective and boffo laffs. Maybe Eddie should have hooked up with Sarah Silverman. Dad might have approved too: a nice Jewish girl...
...matter how controversial its films may be.As Roy Cohen ’10, an Israeli citizen, says, “I am very happy that some of the films are shown in Coolidge Corner Movie Theatre, as it is located in the center of one of the biggest Jewish communities in the Boston area. This is, to me, a symbol of hope…I hope that [the festival] will continue to return in future years and that its incorporation in local culture will become inevitable.”—Staff writer Anna I. Polonyi can be reached...
...book is told chiefly from the perspective of Antonina Zabinski, who, with her husband Jan, served as the keeper of the Warsaw Zoo under the Nazi regime. The two Polish Christians turned their war-ravaged zoo into a center of resistance against the Nazis and a safe haven for Jewish escapees. The Zabinskis managed to keep their zoo under the guise of running a pig and fur farm to supply German troops, but scores of fugitives from the Warsaw ghetto and other Nazi victims were hidden in the villa, the empty cages, and among the animals. As the Germans took...