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GSC Films: S-Z
GSC Films: S-Z Saboteur 1942 Alfred Hitchcock 3.0 Robert Cummings, Patricia Lane as not so charismatic love interest, Otto Kruger as rather dull villain (although something of prefigure of James Mason’s very suave villain in ‘NNW’), Norman Lloyd who makes impression as rather melancholy saboteur, especially when he is hanging by his sleeve in Statue of Liberty sequence. One of lesser Hitchcock products, done on loan out from Selznick for Universal. Suffers from lackluster cast (Cummings does not have acting weight to make us care for his character or to make us believe that he is going to all that trouble to find the real saboteur), and an often inconsistent story line that provides opportunity for interesting set pieces – the circus freaks, the high society fund-raising dance; and of course the final famous Statue of Liberty sequence (vertigo impression with the two characters perched high on the finger of the statue, the suspense generated by the slow tearing of the sleeve seam, and the scary fall when the sleeve tears off – Lloyd rotating slowly and screaming as he recedes from Cummings’ view). Many scenes are obviously done on the cheap – anything with the trucks, the home of Kruger, riding a taxi through New York. Some of the scenes are very flat – the kindly blind hermit (riff on the hermit in ‘Frankenstein?’), Kruger’s affection for his grandchild around the swimming pool in his Highway 395 ranch home, the meeting with the bad guys in the Soda City scene next to Hoover Dam. The encounter with the circus freaks (Siamese twins who don’t get along, the bearded lady whose beard is in curlers, the militaristic midget who wants to turn the couple in, etc.) is amusing and piquant (perhaps the scene was written by Dorothy Parker?), but it doesn’t seem to relate to anything. -
The SS Ben Hecht
1 The S.S. Ben Hecht "The Mandate of Conscience" By Judith Rice Ben Hecht1 S.S. Ben Hecht shadowed by the British Navy She is the last ship afloat; the last man standing from the fight. She was the ship of the outcasts, the rejected, the despised. Jewish leadership, afraid to disturb, he cried out for the dying. The Aliyah Bet veterans are almost all gone now, passing under the grey waves of lapping history and forgetfulness. Peter Bergson & 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hecht 2 Ben Hecht’s struggle to save Jewish lives is still deliberately obscured, to protect the ethos, the myths of Jewish/Zionist leadership. As the blackening blood colored clouds of the coming Holocaust gathered before 1939, Europe’s Jews were desperate for refuge. No one wanted Jews, not even America. The famed words of the Jewish poetess Emma Lazarus2 on the Statue of Liberty in New York’s harbor, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest- tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" were meaningless. The American lamp was not lit for European Jewry. The door was tightly closed. The only place that did want them was the promised Jewish national home in Palestine, the Palestine of the Balfour Declaration3. The League of Nations4 British Mandate for Palestine envisioned for possible Jewish settlement encompassed 43,000 square miles. The size of the Jewish national home was massively reduced in 1922. Winston Churchill signed the severance of 32,500 square miles from the Palestine Mandate area. -
The S.S. Ben Hecht
1 Ben Hecht 1 The S.S. Ben Hecht By Judith Rice [Editorial note: following are selected parts from J. Rice’s original article The S.S. Ben Hecht - "The Mandate of Conscience" . Only the parts that are directly related to the story of the S.S. Ben Hecht are presented here; the full article was published in the June 2010 Edition of the Jewish Magazine, see www.Jashp.org] S.S. Ben Hecht shadowed by the British Navy Hillel Kook 2 was born in Lithuania in 1915, the son of Rabbi Dov Kook, the younger brother of Abraham Isaac Kook, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate in Palestine. In 1924, his family immigrated to Palestine, where his father became the first Chief Rabbi of Afula. Kook joined the pre- 2 state Haganah militia in 1930 following widespread Arab riots. In 1931, Kook helped found the Irgun, a group of militant Haganah dissidents, and fought with them in Palestine through most of the 1930s. He served as a post commander in 1936, and eventually became a member of the Irgun General Headquarters. In 1937 Kook began his career as an international spokesperson for the Irgun and Revisionist Zionism. He first went to Poland, where he was involved in fundraising and establishing Irgun cells in Eastern Europe. It was there that he met the founder of the Revisionist movement, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and became friends with his son Ari. At the founders' request, Kook traveled to the United States with Jabotinsky in 1940, where he soon served as the head of the Irgun and Revisionist mission in America, following the elder's sudden death in August. -
EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! Yiddish Survives the Millennium!
January2000 Vol 10 No.1 EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! Yiddish Survives the Millennium! Despite the vocalized nay-sayers of academia, our beloved mame-los-hn is thriving. There is a slight resurgence in Israel, the former USSR and even in the United States. There are an increasing number of colleges with Yiddish courses. There is the growth of the National Yiddish Book Center, and the increase of Yiddish conferences, institutes and festivals. We have the founding of our International Association of Yiddish Clubs, and the increase in Klezmer groups. All of this doesn't take into account the vast usage of Yiddish among the Haredi. Yiddish is alive and well!! One of the major reasons for the continued interest in Yiddish in outlying areas is the wonderful ability to communicate over the World Wide Web. Mendele, the #1 Yiddish list online, has over-2,000 members all over-the world. Having access to the highest levels of academia and being:able to ask questions makes this the true frontier-of Yiddish world-wide. Several Yiddishists stand out in the forefront of this Yiddish, cyberspace revolution. Notable among this young:group are; Iosif Vaisman, the primary moderator of the Mendele List, Mark David, who mns the-UYIP, and Rafoyel Finkel, whose web site is one of the very best. To this list must be added the wonderful work of the Paris-based newsletters and web site -truly gems. Der Bay is an acronym for Bay Area Yiddish, and starts its 10th year of continuous publication. Its growth in numbers and services are totally due to your support. -
The Lawrence Marwick Collection of Copyrighted Yiddish Plays at the Library of Congress: Introduction to the Annotated Bibliography
The Lawrence Marwick Collection of Copyrighted Yiddish Plays at The Library of Congress: Introduction to the Annotated Bibliography by Zachary M. Baker with the assistance of Bonnie Sohn Library of Congress Washington, D.C. — 2004 Contents The Lawrence Marwick Collection of Copyrighted Yiddish Plays at the Library of Congress: Introduction to the Annotated Bibliography ............................................................................v Zachary M. Baker Yiddish Plays From The Lawrence Marwick Collection.......................................................................1 Index to Yiddish Titles...........................................................................................................................172 Index to Yiddish and English Titles in Roman Characters ..............................................................188 Index to Names of Persons Other Than Primary Authors ..............................................................217 Yiddish Plays from the Lawrence Marwick Collection: Introduction – iii THE LAWRENCE MARWICK COLLECTION OF COPYRIGHTED YIDDISH PLAYS AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: INTRODUCTION TO THE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY by Zachary M. Baker Background This bibliography of one of the largest and most significant extant collections of Yiddish plays sheds light on the vibrant popular culture of Jewish immigrants to the United States. The more than 1,290 plays included here were first identified by the late Dr. Lawrence Marwick, Head of the Hebraic Section of the Library of Congress, on the basis -
JUDAICA LIST | July 2020 | [email protected] PH: +44 208 4559139
FISHBURN BOOKS | JUDAICA LIST | July 2020 www.fishburnbooks.com | [email protected] PH: +44 208 4559139 50 ITEMS: AMERICAN JUDAICA, THE ERUV, PALESTINE MANDATE, ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE HOLOCAUST, ANGLO JUDAICA AND OTHER EPHEMERA 1. [SIR HAROLD MACMICHAEL] MURDER! SIR HAROLD MAC MICHAEL, KNOWN AS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR PALESTINE WANTED FOR MURDER OF 800 REFUGEES DROWNED IN THE BLACK SEA ON THE BOAT “STRUMA” Palestine c 1942 Small hand bill 17 x 13 cm. Sir Harold Mac Michael, was the fifth High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine (1938-44). He rigidly implemented the anti-Zionist policy of the 1939 ‘White Paper,’ refusing to admit Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe to Palestine. The Struma was a ship carrying Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to Mandatory Palestine. The British authorities, led by MacMichael, refused to let it dock in Haifa. On the ship’s return to Europe, it foundered in the Black Sea and nearly 800 Jewish passengers were killed. There was only a single survivor. [ref: 19920 ] £350 2. [ANTI-SEMITISM] CAPP, AL - HENRY EDWARD SCHULTZ, HERMAN WOUK. - MAMMY YOKUM AND THE DOGPATCH MYSTERY New York Anti-Defamation League of the Bnai Brith 1956 Original wrappers, 26cm, 17 un-numbered pages mostly cartoons, there is a foreword by Henry Edward Schultz, the National Chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of the Bnai Brith. Postscript by Herman Wouk, the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist. This comic book reprints a fable about prejudice and racial harmony by Al Capp. The story first appeared in Capp's L'il Abner comic strip. -
Jacob P. Adler Family Photograph Collection, 1870'S – 1930'S
The Jacob P. Adler Family Photograph Collection 1870’s – 1930’s Finding Aid AArrcchhiivveess aanndd SSppeecciiaall CCoolllleeccttiioonnss TABLE OF CONTENTS General Information 2 Introduction 3 Biographical Sketch 4-5 Scope and Content Note 6 Series Description 7 Container List 8-13 Cover photograph: Jacob P. Adler on the cover of a song sheet Back cover photograph: Jacob P. Adler’s Grand Theatre, corner of Bowery and Grand Street, New York City, circa 1908 1 GENERAL INFORMATION Accession Number: 94-01 Size: 1.3573 cu. ft. Provenance: Lulla Adler Rosenfeld Restrictions: None. Location: Range 6 Section 8 Shelf 45 Archivist: Julio L. Hernandez-Delgado, Associate Professor Dr. Louise S. Sherby, Professor Assistant: Mr. Joel Berkowitz Date: June 1994 Revised: August 2014 2 INTRODUCTION The Jacob P. Adler Family Photograph Collection was donated to Archives & Special Collections in 1994, by Lulla Adler Rosenfeld, granddaughter of Yiddish actor Jacob P. Adler. More than half of the original 81 photographs in the collection documents Adler and his family, including his third wife, Sara, and their children, Celia, Frances, Julia, and Stella Adler. (See Scope and Content Note). Also included in the collection are portraits and production photographs of other prominent figures of the Yiddish theatre in the United States. The oldest materials in the collection date from Adler’s youth and include greeting cards which date after his demise. The bulk of the material spans from the first years of the modern Yiddish theatre in the 1870's until the 1930's, when several of Adler’s children were active in the Yiddish theatre in New York City. -
Rabbi Baruch Rabinowitz
“I had just begun to come back into such military force to help bring about 1940 the Revisionist Zionists had sent Profile the stream of the living,” Rabinowitz the creation of a Jewish state. one of their representatives, Benjamin later recalled. “I had just begun to Bergson realized early on that to Akzin (who later became the dean of think in terms of the world around me influence London, he had to go the Hebrew University law faculty), to and the problems of my people rather through Washington. With England meet with members of Congress on than my own tragedy.” desperate for US aid in its war with occasion, but they did not have the Instead of allowing his grief to break Germany, the British government resources to sustain the effort. Now him, Rabinowitz resolved to devote his would have difficulty resisting a plan Rabinowitz would try to succeed life to furthering the ideals of Jewish endorsed by the Americans. Bergson where his predecessors had failed. pride, self-defense and the forthright needed someone full-time in the In the autumn of 1941, Rabinowitz political action for which Jabotinsky nation’s capital to press the case for a began his work on Capitol Hill. “Day stood. He resigned from B’nai Jewish army. He turned to after day I visited members of Congress An Unorthodox Rabbi on Capitol Hill: Abraham in late 1940 and moved to Rabinowitz, whose plea of “I’ve never of both Houses,” he recalled. “I saw an New York to work full-time for the met a congressman in my life—I average of six congressmen a day, five The Legacy of American Friends of a Jewish Palestine, wouldn’t know how to begin,” fell on days a week.” His first and closest ally in a Revisionist faction involved in pro- deaf ears. -
Society Receives $5000 Bequest Inslde
Look Co tlre Fock EQotrr . rhich Uo'J uteae her,,rt 1lJ-9t. tv.l'it 'Jfi)rtt FORMERLY SOCIETY NEWS cl')rcoco(il1$co Je(,orsh Lrrstoptcol socrc)tJ VoluneXVI, no. 1 Fall, 1992 "A Flagis Born" PageantSought to SocietyReceives EstablishJewish State in Palestine $5000Bequest BenHecht Pageant Designed to RaiseFundsfor Long-TimeMember Irgun, Struggle against British Jurisdiction LeavesGrant to Society By Walter Roth Sylvia Brenner, a long-time Beginning December 26, 1946, The American League for a Free member of the Society, has left a Palestinepresented Ben Hecht's A Flag is Born at the Studebaker $5000 bequestto help the Soci*y Theaterat 418 SouthMichigan Avenue to a sold out audience.The continueits presentwork and plan for theater presentationwas another (and the last in Chicago) of Hecht's newundertakings. pageantsdealing with the plight of World Jewry. TheLeague had been Active in various Jewish causes formedin Americaafter the endof World War II underthe leadershipof eveninto her 90s, Ms. Brermertaught Peter Bergson,the sameperson who had organizedthe Irgun Zvai Sunday School at the North Shore Leuni organizationsin the United Statesduring World War II. Under Congregation and attended adult the auspicesof the earlier organizations,Hecht had written the educationclasses at Temple Shalom. Holocaustpageant lle Shall Never Die producedat ChicagoStadium in Accordingto former SocietyPresident Norman Schwartz, she 1943. Now, over three years later, six million Jews had been synpathetic to the exterminatedand the focus was on the remnantsof EuropeanJewry -
YIDDISH ART THEATER/YIDDISH FOLKS THEATER) BUILDING, 181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan
Landmarks Preservation Commission February 9, 1993; Designation List 249 LP-1764 LOUIS N. JAFFE ART THEATER (YIDDISH ART THEATER/YIDDISH FOLKS THEATER) BUILDING, 181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan. Built 1925-26; architect Harrison G. Wiseman. Landmark Site: Borough of Manhattan Tax Map Block 467, Lot 31. On December 12, 1989, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on the proposed designation as a Landmark of the Yiddish Art Theater and the proposed designation of the related Landmark Site (Item No. 28). The hearing had been duly advertised in accordance with the provisions of law. A representative of the owner and lessee appeared and stated that they were not opposed to the designation. Three speakers testified in favor of designation. The Commission had previously received letters in support of this designation. 1 DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS Summary The Louis N. Jaffe Art Theater (Yiddish Art Theater/Yiddish Folks Theater) Building, designed by the prolific theater architect Harrison G. Wiseman, was constructed in 1925-26 for Louis N. Jaffe, a Brooklyn lawyer and prominent Jewish civic leader, who intended it as a permanent home for the Yiddish Art Theater, one of the leading Yiddish "art theater" companies, under the direction of preeminent Yiddish actor Maurice Schwartz. Although the Yiddish Art Theater company performed in the Jaffe Art Theater for only four seasons, this theater remained a Yiddish playhouse (most often as the Yiddish Folks Theater) nearly the entire time between its opening in 1926 and 1945, and was also the site of Yiddish theater revival productions in the 1970s and '80s. The Jaffe Art Theater Building is one of the most tangible reminders of the heyday of Yiddish theater in New York City in the early twentieth century, particularly along the "Yiddish Rialto" of lower Second Avenue, when this form of entertainment was a significant part of the rich cultural heritage of the Jewish Lower East Side of Manhattan. -
Yiddish Art Theater
Landmarks Preservation Commission February 9, 1993; Designation List 249 LP-1765 LOUIS N. JAFFE ART THEATER (YIDDISH ART THEATER/YIDDISH FOLKS THEATER) INTERIOR, consisting of the main entrance lobby on Second Avenue, the lobby on 12th Street, the stairways leading to the mezzanine balcony, and the stair landing alcoves (which lead to the basement stairs) beneath these stairs; the mezzanine balcony and upper part of the 12th Street lobby, and the stairways which lead from the mezzanine balcony to the auditorium; and the main auditorium, with its proscenium, side boxes, and ceiling and dome; and the fixtures and interior components of these spaces, including but not limited to, wall and ceiling surfaces, doors, stair railings, chandeliers, exit signs, and attached decorative elements; 181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan. Built 1925-26; architect Harrison G. Wiseman; Willy Pogany, consultant for interior decoration. Landmark Site: Borough of Manhattan Tax Map Block 467, Lot 31 . On December 12, 1989, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on the proposed designation as an Interior Landmark of the Yiddish Art Theater, first floor interior consisting of the outer vestibule, lobby, the auditorium, the stage, the staircases leading from the first floor to the balcony floor and all connecting entrance areas; the balcony floor interior consisting of the balcony, the upper part of the lobby, the upper part of the auditorium and ceiling; and the fixtures and interior components of these spaces, including but not limited to, wall and ceiling surfaces, doors, stair railings, and attached decorative elements; and the proposed designation of the related Landmark Site (Item No. -
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