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When he was 39, Menasha Skulnik was settled in Manhattan, playing Yiddish musicomedy roles in the Second Avenue Theater. At last he saved enough money to bring, his mother to New York from Poland, and one night bought her a front-row seat. It was her first reckoning with show business since her son ran away from home at eight to become an actor. After the performance, Menasha took his mother to one side. "Well, Mama, what do you think?" Said Mama, with hushed astonishment: "From this you make a living...
...truck drivers began to run Sabbath excursions for young boys and girls, packing them in for a day of swimming, ice cream, fun and games in the country. But the elders of Mea Shearim began turning up after morning prayers at the truckers' parking lots to yell "Shabbes" (Yiddish for Sabbath) at the holiday makers, often adding such insults as "sons of whores, abominations, unclean creatures." Last month Jerusalem saw a wave of violence, with orthodox Jews stopping cars and roughing up their occupants or beating up those seen smoking publicly on the Sabbath...
...1880s a series of bloody pogroms in the Russia of Czar Alexander III set off another great wave of Jewish immigration -2,000,000 came to the U.S. between 1881 and 1914. mostly from Russia and Poland. These Eastern Jews brought with them orthodoxy, Zionism, the Yiddish language and a tighter grip on their Jewish traditions than the Germans had shown...
Died. Michel Licht, 59, Russia-born Yiddish poet who translated the works of his contemporaries (T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound); of a heart attack; in New York City...
...Manhattan's garment industry. So does the title: on Seventh Avenue there are five seasons-spring, summer, fall, winter and slack. In Miss Regan's farce, things are slack to start with and touch & go all the way. Heading the cast and gamely shouldering the burden are Yiddish Theater Comedian Menasha Skulnik and Broadway Veteran Richard Whorf. Skulnik, a mournful-looking, richly accented, frequently funny comic, handles the humor; Whorf, the drama. A married man who guiltily sins with a model, Whorf makes this part of his role as convincing in itself...