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Mundheim was born into a Jewish family in Hamburg, Germany in 1933, just as Adolph Hitler’s Nazi party was rising to power. In January of 1939, Mundheim’s family managed to escape Germany and immigrate to the United States...
...Even this season?s nominated musicals are not the usual load of high-kicking fluff. One of the four Best Musical contenders, Caroline, or Change, is somber meditation on race relations, focusing on a Jewish boy growing up in the South during the 1960s and his family?s black maid. The second-biggest nomination getter (after the musical Wicked) is Assassins, Stephen Sondheim?s dark musical about the killers or would-be killers of American Presidents. Even the new revival of Fiddler on the Roof has been reconceived in darker tones than many audience members (and critics) were prepared...
...forget the shows that the Tony nominators ignored. I was happy to see Sixteen Wounded, Eliam Kraiem?s drama about a Jewish bakery owner in Amsterdam who befriends a Palestinian terrorist on the lam, make a stab at Broadway, even though it bombed. Though formulaic, I thought the play had potential when I saw it at New Haven?s Long Wharf Theater in early 2003. But it went badly awry on the road to Broadway, with some misguided rewriting, recasting of the lead role (Judd Hirsch replacing the more credible Martin Landau) and a set that divided the stage into...
...vaccines are given separately. For those visiting locales where malaria is a concern, the latest antimalarial treatments have fewer annoying side effects like nightmares, nausea, sun sensitivity and headache, says Dr. Carol Singer, chief of the infectious diseases division and director of the travel immunization center at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park...
Revisiting History A dedicated group of volunteers is translating hundreds of books memorializing Jewish communities extinguished during World War II and publishing the texts online...