Zayt bagrisrand

borckh habo, Rootless

Cosrnpolitans I have
so much to say to you
sometmesI can't
even sleepat night I
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Z00Z Vtl-"t47, hae- 1 toss and hrm thinkins
alnut which Jcwish
Th.Wt-t
Heroes shall get
shouts-outin the
The other day I was walking down 34'nStreetGeling pretty hot. The new bright yellow pumps I Editor's Note this
I hadjust purchasedhad a lot to do with that. As I sashayeddown the boulevard,pumps under my year. Hmnq there's
arm, I passedtwo Hasidsstoppedin the middle of the sidewailqarguing in Yiddish. Forgetting Elzet, otherwisc
known as Rabbi
myselfi,as I often do, I sloweddramatically,strainingto catchthe drift of what they were saying. Judah [,eyb Zlotnick.
I felt the briefestthrill of connection,the feeling I alwaysget when I stumbleupon Yiddish Rabbi, lawyer,
folklorist. He wrote
speakers,whoever they may be. The thrill was cut short as they looked at me strangelyand I under a pseudonym
, rememberedthe way I must look to them. I imagined that they wouldn't have any idea what my becausehis sccular
interestin them might be. But isn't it obvious?'Look pastthe yellow pumps!It's me, Rokhl, ways conflicted with
his religious beliefs.
Yiddishist, klezkamper,FolksbieneYiddish Theafie super-titlesuper-kvetcher.'But the moment Soundslike one ofus,
was over and I went home to ponderthe distancebefween"us" and "them." And to h:y on my to me. One of Elzet's
, new shoes. truJy phanomenal
cfea[ons was a book
called "Davenen."
lt often seemsas if being a Yiddishist/klezrnophile/secular bnei zion puts one behind an Within were collecterl
hundredsof Yiddish
impermeablebarrier when it comesto our more religious kin. But the truth is that if we imagine
sayings basedon thc
that barrier to be solid it's only our insecuritythat makesit so. There is an entire specftum Jewish liturgical
betweenmyself, the RootlessCosmopolitanand the WilliamsburgerHasid and it is possibleto cyclc. Just one
dclicious example:of
frnd commonnodes(and friends)at every point. a ncwly mamed lad
who dawdlcd a
For example,a lot of my friendsdo ethnographicwork in the Hasidic world. They collect tunes, Shabbcsmoming wirh
his wife (ending to
observedances,interview folks. Has no one noticed that while "we" may look to thosesheltered one duty) when he
communitiesfor raw material,it is truly the secularworld of Klerkamp and its ilk that is keeping should have been in
shul (rendingto
the traditional Jewish arts alive in any meaningfulway. Justrecently a council of Hasidic Rebbes another duty) it was
in Brooklyn declaredtlrat the numberof musiciansat any simkhe could not exceedtwo. That's said "F'adoyt er ahava
right, trvo. How will traditionalJewishsimkhemusic survive in such an ahnosphere?The Rebbes raba, kurnt er nisht tsu
shma yisroel."
haveperfectly good, humanerc:rsonsfor imposing suchhard measures.It is appropriatefor their
community. But, barukh ha-shem,thereis an enorrnouscommunity out here in my world tending I hope you'll buy
the flame of traditional simkhemusic. back issres of RC or
sead me submissions
Cr.q$lk@guprt-sels
)
Further,many of my readershave probablynoticed that Klezkamp and its imitators havegotten I hope you'lt share
your top Jewishguilry
progressivelymore accommodatingto observantfolk. You're not imagining it, I've spokenwith pleasureswith me.
peoplewho have been with this thing from the very beginningand they tell me that the tone of Mine are (rn no
theseevents,especiallycome Shabbes,was never as full with the faux-brengenspirit (pseudo- particular order):
'l
clcvised FriarsClub
Hasidicjoyousness)as they are today. And more and more religious folk come every year. It used Roasts,A&m
to be a truism that the peoplewho embracedYiddish and klezrnerwith the most zeal were the Sandler,The Red
Tent and the Nanny.
oneswho were the most alienatedfiom mainstreamreligiosity. While thosefolks are still around
(hey there!) it's no longer so easyto make such sweepingstatsments. I also want you to
know that I got the
best late Klanike
And finally, if you neededfirther proof that we truly are a spectrum, consider the fact that a present the other day
small, but significang contingentof Hasidic folk are seekingout secularYiddish culture on a when I heard Fyvush
Finkel speakng
regular basis.Being the super-titleoperatorat the Folksbienethis seasonallowed me to observe Yiddish to Al Franken
gs51hand the 2,3 or 5 young Hasidic men at every show-One night we had two couplescome during the Oy Oy Oy
and tre husbandof one of the couplescouldn't stop praisingthe show to the director, telling him Show. Oy, it was a
mekhaye.
how his wife would hear nothing but lines and phrasesfrom the show for the next two weeks.
And this was a show with a woman singrng and men and women dancing with each other! On tlrat note, I rernain
full ofobsessions,
Consider also a friend of mine who doesa secular radio show in Yiddish featuring new Jewish passronsand love for
music and other Jewishnews.[n Hasidic Brooklyn he is a celebrity. B'emes,ben emunes. my rnfrriatingly
! fabulous and stiff
I Isn't this what being a RootlessCosmpolitanis all about.The confidenceto go from faux-
necked people.

I brengento real-brengenand the love of one's peoplethat drives you to seekout the unique spirit Mit liebe,
that every different Jew has to offer. As always,peaceand irie vibes, RootlessCosmopolitans. Rokhl bas Cyprus
1 (Rachael Ka&isserl
Rootless
; Cosmopolitan and
Original Daughrer of
Zi<xr)
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By Rokhl bas Cyprus

I hadto remind myself more thanonce

while readingKiddush ha-Shemthat
thoughthe eventsof the book takeplace resentments and religioustensionisrew,
in 1648,SholemAschwrote itin 1926. theChmielnickiuprising.Zlocnov
i"s
In New York City. For all I know, he destroyedand the Jewsflee where
thev
couldhavebeensitting in his apartment can.A numberof themeventually
end
on WestEnd Avenueand writing in a up seekingrefuge within the fortifieA
cafeteriaon Broadwayduring the ya.llsoflhe city of Tulchin. There,an
aftemoon.And Yet. Despitethe skin alliancebetweenpole andJew is Ir 'sh
f"ig.a Iewjs
crawlinglybad translationof one Rufus andtogethertheyexperience ,or. "
Learsi,Kiddush ha-Shemis utterly thrillingvictoriesagainstthe Cossack f ulch
compellingandtransportsoneright into hordes.Thesevictoriesare the most :ape a
Ukraineof 1648.EvervdavJewishlife excltrngscenesin the book. :lotr gr
of the 176 century,itsie*iures, smells, :laves
andmost importantly,its everpresent Kiddushha-Shemmeans..sanctifi J0rr gll
cation
dreadjump offthe paper.Asch of the name"and it is a mitzveto
i," fo, But as
masterfullydealswith one of the themes the sanctificationof His name.Thi;-
which traditionallyhasbeenthe subject meansthat Jewsareobligatedto XC()rn
choose
of so much Jewishambivalence,self- martyrdomratherthan be forced
to
defenseand the usesof violence. commit threedifferentacts:murder
of
anotherJew, forbiddensexualrelations
TheChmielnickiuprisingof 1648has and idolatry.A Jew is alsoobligatedto
beencalled,with little exaggeration,
a die ratherthan be forced,for thi pu.por"
mini-Holocaust.One hundredthousand of religiouspersecution, to transgrestt.
Jewswere murderedby Cossacksled by l1w (any religiouslaw) publicty"One (
BogdanChmielnicki.The Cossacksand alsodiesa martyrif he or streis titteC I

Ukrainiansresentedthe way that the simply becausesheis a Jew.But *t t

ui of
Polishnoblesruled them fiom afar by the Jew who is able to defendtrimseli I
usingthe Jewsas their intermediaries. Whar is his obligarionto himsetf C
anjlo
For example,Kiddu.rhha-Shemfeatures otherJews?
a Jewishinnkeeper(and the parnossof
Thor,
Zlochov)who is also forcedby the local First we must examinethe thrilling
battle hc.roi
Polishnoblemanto hold the key to the sceneswith which we, the Jewishieader.
drsco
Ukrainianchwch. When the Ukrainians
want to openthe church for a baptism, are rewardedafter sufferingthrough so and t
much Jewishsuffering.In the fortified th<-ru
the come to the innkeeperand beg him
city of Tulchin the Jewsof Zlochov seek readir
to open the church,though they have no
refugeand enter into their alliance with coura
moneyto pay the tax imposedby the
the Poles.Asch goesinto great detail of AmI
the cunningand savagerywith which the t\hat
nobleman.The Jew is torn between transf
wanting to let the tlkrainians in to the Jews meetthe attackingCossacks.
gftenc
churchwithout payingand fearingthe
retribution to be exactedon him by the Imme,
nobleman. the pe
ustot
?- Kn-vor
 "FrequentlYthe Jewsallowedtne
Cossacks to comecloseto the
rvall and aPPIY their crowbarsfor
makinga breach.Thenthe Jews
rvouldsuddenlYhurl down
uponthema hail ofrocks and
pour down on their heads
cauldronsof seething
tallow...And more thanoncedid
the Jews,as in the ancienttimes
of Jerusalem,sallYforth out of
the citY,and with uttercontempt
ofdeath,theYfell uPonthe ranks
of the Cossacks,killed manYof
them,and drove the rest back to
theirtents..."
tt's hardnot to inwardlYcheerthe
fervrshvictoryon the fortified walls of
f ulchin.After pageafter achingpageof
i'apeand murderof innocentJews-oh
non goodit feelsto be that which we
haveso longbeendenied:a courageous,
porrerful, cunningJew.
But as the battle rages,the descriptions
Ncome moregruesome:
"With criesandblazingeYes'
theY[the Jews] tore through the
cloudsof smokewhich
belchedfrom the mouthsof the
cannon,and fell uPonthe
Cossacks,bit them with their
teeth,gougedout their eYeswith
their fingers'and with their long
knivestheYslashedthroatsand
cleavedheads."
Thoughwe are still cheeringthis new
hc'roicJerv,the readerbecomes
discomfortedwith so much eye gouging
and throatslashing.All of a suddena
thoughtoccursto the cheeringJew
readingthis tale of uniqueJewish
.ouragi' is such violence tobe savored'l
Am I injoying thisjust a little too much?
What is to follow sucha ghastlY
transformatioriof the formerly meek
ghettoJew?
Immediatelyfollowing the descriptionof
the peakof Jewishviolence,Asch brings
us to the tent of the Cossackleader
Knvonos.He is receivinga folk remedy
for his achingbones.An old woman
bringsa live kid to the warriorand tells
him to bathehimselfin its bloodand
cover his legswith the body.It's a
thoroughlydisgustingscene.The otd
womantells the Cossack,"You have
givenSatanhis due,now he will calm
himself."As if that weren'tenough,in
the next line we readthat"the Cossack
leadernow felt his pain relieved.The
young,fresh,still palpitatinglittle body
yieldeda pleasantwarmthlike the body
of an infant."Ewww.
Of course,it's easyto distanceoneself
from suchbehavior.The readeris not
madeto identifuwith the Cossackleader
Krivonos.But thejuxtapositionof the
bloodiestscenesof Jewishviolencewith
that of the Cossackbathingin the blood
of a sacrificialkid is the way that
SholemAsch forcedus to examineour
own embraceof Jewishviolence.
The final battlefinds theJewsof
Zlochov in a position wherethey can
avoid their own marryrdom.They have
joined forceswith the Polesto
successfullyfight offthe Cossacks.At
the momentthat the Jewsmight really
triumph over their enemy,it is revealed
that their Polishallies havesoldthem
out to the Cossacks.The Jewsare
summoneden masseto the castleof the
PolishDuke andtold to not only
surrendertheir valuables,but all their
weapons.The betrayalis revealed.The
first reactionof the Jewsis to massacre
the Poles:
"And there was a young man
there from Karsoon;he was thin
and tall and his eyesblazed
with the vengeanceof God. His
ear-lockstrembledand the teeth
in his jaws chattered with anger,
for the wrath of the Lord burned
strongwithin him. And he
snatchedup a long knife and
cried to the Jews:'The Gentiles
have betrayedus herejust as in
Nemirov. Let us avenge
ourselveson them with the
vengeanceof the [ord, for God
and his Torah.'
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An Essay in Dzaynglo (the iewish-ingtish
i
pinkhas
ranguage)by Rushefstcyi

Beginningin the l6n century,

RootlessCosmopolitanreadersare Polisharistocratsadoptedwhat
probablyawareof the connection
theybelievedto be the dressof this
betweenHasidicmen's dressand {
I

earlyBosphorankingdom.But
the gqb worn by Polishnobility of I

havingno ideawhat real

I
the l8b cenftry. Today,kapotes Sarmatians had lookedlike, they \
(blackcaftans)tied with gartlscan
substitutedthe costumeof the
be found in Hasidicneighborhoods Turkish and Tartar warriors that
like Williamsburg,Boro Park and ChristianEuropefacedin its
Mea Shearim.But tracingthe battleswith the Oftomans.
origin of this styletakesus on an
interestingtrip far eastof the Polishportraitureof the times
Vistula. showsmenwith shavedheads,
longwhiskers,caftansand lanciful
headware (soundfuniliar?) Often
theyareposedreclininglike
Sultans.

The milieu that gaverise to the The Polishenlightenment of the

Hasidicadoptionof the caftanwas late l8thcenturysu'eptau'a1'the
the l8h centurvPolish/Lithuanian cultof Sarmatism. the
Ironically',
Commonwealth-the land from Sarmatian aesthetic liveson in the
which the Baal ShemTov created streetsof Brooklvn.whcreultra-
a revolutionarystrainof Jewish orthodoxJewishmcn dresslike
practice.The Polisharistocracy, Catholicaristocrats rrho borrowed
calledthe Szlachta,had costumesfrom Muslirnu'arriorsin
constructeda nationalmyth to an effortto irnitatenomadic
justify their superiorstatus. pagans.

Sarmatismwas the belief that the

Szlachtawere descended from
ancientTurco-lraniantribeswho
invadedfrom the Black Seato rule
over the Slavicpeasantry.While
todaythe conceptseemslaughable, 'l'hr
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congrotu)d!es
it was consistentwith the
Izzie Letin
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times. The Arthurian legendserved on nIs,)th ll:tt,..:.f,
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It is clear from the previousvictories of

the Jewsover the Cossacks(alongside
the Poles)that, shouldthey decideto
o; l- keepfighting, they could massacrethe
'.lc Jcrrscanavengethemselves Polesand the approachingCossacks'
l.ric'>.a "rrhite beard"rebukesthe Thus the "white beard" (speakingfor
ScholemAsch himselfl)appealsnot so
.\rc thcscthe merciful sonsof
much to the halakhic imperativeof self-
'.r-'mercrtul?... Jewsare sacrifice,thoughself-sacrificeis
;r'sgrnsrblefor one another!If requiredto avoid taking the life of
r trukrll thc-Gentiles,theywill anotherJew or Jews.More convincingly,
3\ engcthemselveson the Jews Asch seeksto cultivate within his reader
i
tri othercities...We will notbe i a disgustand distrust for the violence
I
liLeuo\Gentiles...We will not I suchdefenseencompasses. Is a life
rvrth
I

;vofane revengethe I
I worth living, Asch asksus, once we
KrJdushha-ShemwhichGod t
haveallowed our enemiesto reduceus
rqurresof us." I to their level?
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An historicalreview of sarue Dfficutties
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specialreferenceto her legulposition :j- I

by L. Ilands r'i(
,--e--^4^rr-rrlr'rrri^n rql?)
(Bayswater, Bngland: print:-11:l.Pl::,f":Xj*::',1'l;1e17)^^^ -y i ::!t
Yt"i"i
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Yt"i"i;; - 6*' ::.lllt
J..*rl Enough.
rheagunahF.-
is crushed
*a"rit. r -,,-
*ight of thousands
Some whichBeset
Dfficulties theJewess *rinlr tiuiiffi"" - .r.
with SpiLial Referenceto her Legal
:l.t:.1j:"jtuPbjnf
always reflected,n..t iltr"uttil;f -,:-:
Positionis a 16-pagepamphlet;written men,and second,a lack of .&
sensitivitvt.,
tv
and privatelyprintedin tltZ Uya the-needs of women.rft"l"*"rrrr'rr 'uic
somewhatmysteriousEnglishwoman suffering-under political opp*ion, on - r-'i
named"L. Hands."SomiDrPculties the.olher is - :!
Not Jewsh !and, likely to be a victim or
doesindeeddeliveron its tiile's promise. Enough,as therei; :rr r
,,-_ .. ,, a lack of Jewishrepresentation ffi;ly ':{:
Surveyingthe Jewishlegalpositionof ,fu2*'ry* within
women,Ms. Handsu.curutily pinpoints her local gou"rnrn.nt. -'3
the "Difliculties" arisingfrom historical ,.,
With respectto the Moderately_
reasoningappliedin the all-too-here- observant and SecurarJewesses, - 't^:*
,
'^fro" I woul
and-now.First and foremostamong rr.- i^it^,,"-:,;;..*;.;:::"'.;;^:-'
oragunot(theso-ianed
theseisrhecase ;ff::::i"JHlilf;Hilil"#;H* , ,-
"chainedwomen"') Eventoday,so ''€ I
approaches introducinghimselfas
seriousis the plight of the agunohwho "cantor phil," this is a Difficulty which 't?r
cannotobtaina get that sheis not merely 'foo
is Jewish.Believeme, we haveall :''-
"Beset" but also "plagued,""harassed," .
beenBesetby Cantorphil at onetime o, -t
"distressed,"and "embittered"to saythe . --:
another,However,when your boss
least' approachesyou to put the Hebrew *o.d, t-t'
on the company"holiday card," J
carefullyiconographized without baby
If thereis a critiqueto be madeof Ms. M,r&,estwb . Jesuses or angels,but hasfailedto nolict
Hands'booklet,it is, first, that her eH that Hanukkahwas over two weeks dgo,_
Z',"qnf
examplesonly devolvearoundthe most that is a caseof Not JewishEnough.And_._.".
religioussub-groupof "Jewesses." As I when you areashamedto tell your boss
needhardlytell you, dearreader,the you don't know the Hebrewlettersor
'r'
Moderately-Observant andevenSecular how to spell"Hag Sameakh"and you .,
Jewessis aboutas Besetas it is possible simultaneously feel irritatedbeingthe -. .,1
to be. Secondly,Ms. Hands'admirable tokencompanyJewessand youreally :
summaryfails somehowto Providean wish they would put the Hebrewon the
;, 0.
overarchingprincipleor schematicby card and get it out in time for Hanukksh,
r*ri
which the AverageJewess'Diffrculties well, Dear Reader,that is a devilishcaS€s . ._
can be understood.Reviewingthe of both Too Jewishand Not Jewish _ ..,
specificsof the casessheenumerates- Enough.Sadly,Ms. L. Handsoffersno
SocialConditions,PoliticalOppression, resolutionto oneBesetbv sucha
Divorce-The Brother-in-Law'sClaim paradox. ro
UpontheChildlessWidow,andsoo* %Jb.r*gn1fu%"r* b--.-
leadsthisreaderto ofl'erherown htl
btbt**
summation: yotu A".t"g;;*"tt it Finally,to the questionof Ms. Hands' , ?- t
Besetby only two kindsof Difficulties, identity.All that is known of the frl
namely, Too Jewish and Not Jewish authoressis that in 1920shedeliveredarr... .
Enough.Whenyou really think aboutit, (ffiJfu,a*ltt&at expandedpaperbasedon this pamphlet Dr
everythingfalls into one of thosetwo i. ;.
categories.The agunah,for example,is 41t*7oue
lr
clearlya victim of Too Jewish,whereas
political oppressionis almostalwaysa
;
 (Beset,con't from previouspage)

at the Internationa FU"ttu,tWPU4

WomenZionistswhich was heldin
Londonin July 1920.It is conceivable
that she was the Lydia Handswho, in /a'y'ilot z ltt
1880,publisheda versionfor young .-
readersof the Germanmedievalepic
poem, the Nibelungenlied.But a breakof
almost40 yearsbetweenpublished Paul Celan Louis-Ferndinand Celine
works seemsunlikely,and unlessshe (Frenchpoet born in Bukovina) (Frenchnovelist
were very young at the time of her Mtttel author of the masterpiece
Deut.schphase,shewould haveto be Journeyto the End of Night,
ratherelderlyby the time of the 1920 Nazi sympathizerand
conference.The name"L. Hands"does. all around gump)
in its simplicity,suggesta pseudonym,
but arguingagainstthis is the pamphlet's Bruno Schulfz Cherles Schultz
inscription.Distributionwasprivate, (author of The (responsiblefor the
with the title pageverso marked"From SanitariumUnder entire shataof SnooPY
Miss Hands,57, PortsdownRoad, the Sign of the Hourglass) objets tn landfills
London,W-9"; and written in by handin aroundthe countrY;
virtually every extantcopy,"With
compliments."Why sendcomplimentsif
the addresseecouldn't be surewho you Sidney Hillman Sidney Wilhelm
were?Thus we must assumethat our (born in Lithuani4 (Crroundbreakingand prophetic
friend and foremotherL. Handswas yeshivarebel, radical sociologisg
simplya rank-and-fileJewessboth well- legendarylabor organissl, authorof Who Needsthe Negro)
helped found the CIO)
versedin traditionalJewishknowledqe
and amply Besetby the attendant
problemstherein.

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E6,vard Said be damned, Jews have always proudly looked
" East. In Eastern Europe they looked toward Zion. In Amerrca
: they look toward Eastern Europe. In Manhattanople they look
i to the mysterious and enticing East. As Pinkhas llushefsky
i points out in his article on Hasidic dress, Hasidic Jews came to
I
ildr"ss the way they do now becauseof the Orientalist
| rcndenciesof certain TurkophilePolish nobles.So take a
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the East'
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2. Kalustyan;s Importers of Fine Spices,LexinglonAvenueand 28d'Sfeet
:Forbidden ricefor sale,just don't ask the lady at the counterhow to make it.
J3.Turkuaz Turkish Restaurant,Broadwayat l00thStreet
, Theydo this thing with creamy eggltlant,you'll plotz
4. DaheshMuseum of Art, 580MadisonAvenue
Thefinest collection of Europeanacademicart, much ofwhichfeatures Orientalist themes
5. East-West Books, 5* Avenue at l2t,, Steet
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by A. Meydl, Anonymous Correspondent to Rootless Cosmopolitan
If I had a nickel for every time I am asked
why I becameso involved with Yiddish I
would be rich. Halevay! The reality is that I
am strugglingto survive financially by
working with the Yiddish languageon a
daily basis.Over severalyears,it has
evolved from a firn project to a languagethat
I mutter in my sleep.
When I beganstudying Yiddish for fiur, I
never imaginedthat it would becomemy
profession(meshteynsgezogt).I simply
liked the languageand the soundof it. I
liked how a few words were familiar and
how many were not. I becamefluent over a
period ofseveral years,through a
combinationof intensiveacademicstudy,
reading music, and spendingtime with
native speakers.I immersedmyself further
and further in the culture until I realizedthat
I could only go deeper. I love the facesof
older peoplewho talk abouttheir youth in a
place and time that is completelydifferent
from my own- I love the soundof the
Yiddish languagein the kitchen and on the
stage,hearinga song aroundthe table as the
sun goesdown. This is not only the Yiddish
of nostalgiaand badjokes - this is my own
heritage.
In 2003, I moved to New York - the heartof
today's Yiddishlmd - to work as a
Yiddishist. The life I lead now is a far cry
from the boring (but stable)job, brutal
winters, and cheaprents that I left behind in
the Midwest. In New York, I have patched
togethervarious part-timesjobs, all
involving Yiddish. The resulting experience
is frequentlymaddeningand occasionally
rewarding.
How did it happen?No strategy,really. I
beganby seekingout work involving the
Yiddish language,without any concrete
goals other than learning,improving my
languageskills, and promoting the language
d t R^,,^5Y,J/;qlql' A f?*i .a Po"gtttt
and culture. I found a variety ofjobs -
administrativework in Yiddish
organizations,cataloging archiving,
teaching,performing, child care.At one
point last year, I realizedI had eight jobs. I
was running betweentwo or three different
jobs in one day, skipping dinner, trying to
balancethe needsof many dernanding
employers.Sincethen, it has stabilized
somewhat yet I often still feel like a
yeshive-bokher;eatingdays at different jobs
in orderto ekeout a living.
My day-to-daywork is often mundane-
exceptfor the fact that it's canied out in a
languagethat many insist is alreadydead.
Composingand banslatingbilingual
correspondence and articles; organizing
cultrual eventsand meetings;plodding
throughpiles of books - literary
masterpieces,obscureself-publishedpoets,
grisly Holocaustmemoirs,translationsof
classics,and new (yes, new) novels and
poetry; preparingnew literary and linguistic
projects,strugglingwith cryptic handwritten
entriesand pageafter page of Yiddish text;
tediouslycatalogingarchivesand databases.
I even care for Yiddish-speakingchildren -
playing in the snow,cooking noodles,
readingbooks in Yiddish and English, and
learningfrom eachother. I also perfonn as a
Yiddish singer and songwriter,sometimes
evenas an actor. It is especiallyexhilarating
to perform for an audiencewho understands
the language.
I'm thrilled just to be in New York and to be
working with Yiddish, but like the fresh-
facedyoung artist who comesto the big city
to make it, I have also becomeolder and
wiser - some might say cynical and
disillusioned.It's a tazy life, and the
instability really grateson me. I neverknow
if onejob will be theretomorrow, if the
organization'smoney will run out or if
someonemore aggressivewill shouldertheir
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publicity

YiJC.ftf^nA, workers in Yiddish 1r urxlatec-mail Chcc agatn'you'vefarledto m{l cven

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to.acceptan \F So, you sh<rckedAbe liouran tsrg fuckrng
o.**irutlons are often expe{ted
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I tfunk AF wrote me a similar lefter when I showed
work envkollment where low kr shul in a sleevelessblouse uethout shaung under my
arrns
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delicate
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I say that sensibilitiJs.The man smells anti-semitism wtren the Poles
rp."Jf", othsrs as woll when below me are making Pierogtes'
becomerict\ I do
i,ir"tgft I don't expect to a
have Frar*Iy Heeb, you're awfully proud aboul' what? Shockrng
;;;" be able to PaYthe rent' to a tallls
to t{ bunch of peopleby portrayrng a nakel Chnst weanng
lr"ul,h in***ce, and to be able I
aftendYiddish and Jewish - I
like a locier ioorn towel? That's really a no-brainrx ln
sh<rckdepartment,if you usk me Editor in Chief Jtxhu
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eventswithout feelinglike Poor
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spread isn't a drrect reaction to the moqe' rn
that the photo
,o*rP"r*n at a lavish wedding' fact, he iasn't even seenThe Passion The spread
isn't about
and
the movie, he says,it's about the hype around the mon-e
Listen'
ho*' rareit is Jeflatrng Mel's d'ivinely inspirel pretensions6otcha.
Peopledon't seemto realize no on. i'ot", to deflate pomposity more than I do
lt's an
wlth
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with mc. Buiyou know what I think is pompous?
and skills who are commrttee Deciding that yoru audience just can't handle a challengtng
it'
Lk" on Ir" movie iseti as well as thc hype surroundrng
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with
isn't this photo play (rather than a written piece) is thst "Our
;;;iltil;" is and who sets it Yiddish g*"ruti.tiitn't one thal is going to pay so much a(tenlronlo
mainstream '
*O- scteenof most in edrtonal and wc wantql people to pay shcntton to ttus
general the
i"*ittt ..g-izations' let alone
"",f." Yeah and their tips probably move wtren reading
captions. Taking a page lrom modem advertising' Ncunm
funders.But even (and somehmes a
Yiddish orgBnizationsconhnue es that when you message is too imporlant-to be
".o""iuffyl
il;;"dil"n. wherethe worker's don't say it with wonls' say it with tic. And
what are
is exploited in order (its savrnc,?"What I think thc sprearldoes is articulatc ottr
commiEnent a causeto
iew and;-mbivalenc€about the campaign" What t
thtnr
worker
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as
through-bad (he Passton
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and the causeare sacrificed ,*,". u ,f,**f,rn f and thought provoking way?
I
*nditions, what's the takhles?
;;il;g guyr. if you have to do so much explaining as to
;*p"T*on
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just give up and
SometimesI think I should I've yet to sec l{eeb spark a genuine, intellectual
debate-about
t1 it th: '-",g1t1
]"ii"",. I could just get ajob fideasr. l've yet to seea Senurnelyradical thought put forth
orgaruzanon:u rJewish Press' may say'
*norl{ or evenin theJewish in your pages,despitewhat the
your eldersdoesn't
aresuppos€dlv
iurt"r"Midwesterners Berng a-b;ct of bad assesand shrcking
i;;;il enter^the really count for much.
;; fo, tn",' workethic'I could
if I
."ulm *h"t" I will beprized
rn a
il"J"*" We all know that getting Abe Foxman's boxer bricfs
li"i--Jvr" literature (in English).Ifr:u . t*irt irn't all that drffrcult- t low about pnn(rrg something ^
AIJL Hq t
that would rcally causehea( palpitations over-at
: f"ili"'"se I w.ould':'YY:i1f,"t:.0^
I would have-a
What about an appreciation ofthe late Jewish histonan
tutu*i"* Su**tt He wrote about the endurance of antr-
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rl
onthisheYmish if
haditioru i"r,,it sm at a t" structural and conceptual incompatibilities
to wnt€ a
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of Judaism and Christianity. He had the chutzpah
o'J,o a small group of students book about it called "You Gentiles' in 1924'
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Maybe they've
money.Yet manY qot something substantiveto add to the dialogLre l".{" . .
as a spoken I'licontinue bidding on vrrtage copiesof Jewish
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RokN bas cYPrus
to a few?

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BY Rokhl bas CYPrus

David Mandelbaumhasbeenmany things,from a battlarei rl,hts

youth, to a professionalYiddish actor with the FolksbieneYiddish
Theatre.He is also the ne plus ultra of Yiddish soul in Washington
Heights,itself a bastionof Yekkitude and little old ladiesnamedGsrt
and Dot (God blessthem.) David is a beaconto me, with his
beautiful Yiddish, rich family history, and almost inexplicable
devotion to residing here in the lofty Heights.You can keepyour
Henry Kissingers,your Ruth Westheimers,even your JacobJavitzs i

(hometown"heros" all.) I'm proud to saythat David Mandelbaumis

my neighbor.Here, for the first time in print is the story of David I
and his family as they traveledthroughJewish time and space.

Cl:,|,;^,p"Lal
David's parentsfall in love and marry,
though not without somefamilial resistance'
While his paternalgrandfatherwas the
mayor of Chibin (the only Jewishmayor in
Poiand) he was also a misnagid'David's
maternalgrandfather,on the other hand was
a BresloverHasid and the town shoykhet'
Differenceswere overcomeand true love
prevailed,through deportationto Siberia a i

iojourn in Kazakhstan' brief repatriation to I

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potanO,a spell in Stuttga( Germany' and .l

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frnally, a home in WashingtonHeights'

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The ultimate Yekke yeshiva. Young
David sometimeswent there to hearthe
19' 9"rA ,^l E+*f, Auqa, Dr.r.l^dat Stl;U
The Dombrover Ruv was fhe brotherof the
Chibiner Ruv. The elder Mandelbaumhad
studiedat the Chibiner Ruv's misnagdish
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choir. By himself.

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1gE"tl".l r'il B^.J"//.V The Mandelbaumsmove to this
shtiblewhen they move into an
The first video storeis openedin WashingtonHeightsby apartnent in nearbyLafayette
recentlvarrivedRussianJews. Gardens.

Ctl,4:.; A*nu t4J nT Shtd. lk Ultt tl*l

WhenRabbi Weinstein'scongregation at l6l"
Steetmoved, they were absorbedinto the Bridge A^4fu"1.*^Ar,rnu:'" lk'f70't
Shul.
In a little brownstonethe son of Rabbi Judah
Turnauerusedto blow the shofarlike
nobody's business.David madea point to hear
him wheneverhe could.

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g''nt/rt/.,
This is where the Mandelbaumslived in
their fust apartrnent. 16f tl"rrl k14'.r^B4.J4t 'f . l
Aru*,rla
Rabbi Weinstein'scongregation. Also
the homeof Rabbi Weinstein'sBoy
Scout troop. This is the first
synagoguethe Mandelbaumsattendin
WashingtonHeights. Purelyan
interim measure,as Mr. Mandelbaum
$f S$.r4.+l Fc,lWala* searchesfor a more intimate shtibl.
A nearbyGerman-Jewishsynagogue.
RelationsbetweenYekkes and polish
Jewswere "cordial" but also ..non-
existent."
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The ftrst shtibl where the
elder Mandelbaum feels
comfortable' having found a
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ignoramuscan come as close to God as
Black Hat, White Rior is the name of a the greatestrabbinic scholar. He made
recentlyreissuedalbum by a little Judoism meoningful for the mossesat a
rememberedfirst wave punk band called time when its humanqualities were
the Misnagdimr. The fact that a bunch of being neglectedby its rabbinic leaders.
Satmaryeshivabokherswould call Punk rock showedthat, similarly, any
guitar and a
themselvesMisnagdim gives you an idea lignoramus with accessto a
of the "fuck you" factor at work here. iminimum of chordscould changethe
Originally releasedin 1979,Black Hat, music world forever if possessedof the
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airplay in the UK. The Misnagdim even lworld cheered.
supportedDesmondDekker on his I
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and Wales2.This was mostly due to the !g"*" of punk nevertook off. For
fact that the Misnagdim and Dekker iexample,one of the best songson the
sharedthe samemanagement,Leslie ialbum, Get the hell of my bima you
Kong, a ChineseJamaicanwho owned !bloody skinheadsQ"kiah) would seem
'to
the famousBeverley's Ice Cream and be in the vein of the popular anti-
RecordShop in Kingston. The racist genre.But the song is actuallya
Misnagdim eventuallydroppedKong rarity for punk rock, an instrumental
after being wooed to the managementof featuringa 33 secondshofar solo.
Sir Lew Grade.Sir Lew saw the
potentialin punk rock and envisioned The rest of the album is made up of
himself a JewishMalcolm Mclaren-3 clumsy diatribesand not one but two
It's not clear if the move to Sir Lew's circumcisionprotestsongs:Pieceof V
managementis what promptedthe Thing and OrelaArgument.The low
band'sabrupt implosion in May 1979, point probablycomeswith the
but forcing the band to don Beatleswigs Misnagdim's attemptto deal with the
during their appearanceon Top of the touchy subjectof inter-marriage."Dea
Popscouldn't havehelped band morale. to my family" containsthe memorable
refrain
The great historian Jacob Rader Marcus "l married a shiksas/rebbewat
saysthat "Hasidism was not a revolt to fix her/ I'm deadto my family/dead
againstthe Jewish religion but againstits my familyidead to my family/ but hap
leadersand their interpretation of it. The in bed6."
Besht[Ba'al ShemTov] taughta new
wayto worshipGod...He insisted While the Misnagdim's one and only
spiritualperfectioncomesnot through releaseis interestingto us as a curious
learningbut throughpersonal reflectionof a very specific time and
devoutness, andthusthe humblest place,it is also a reminderof the
challenge,and limitations, of permanent

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Merlin Shepard
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Samuel Goldwyn and a Jewish David O. with a hole cut in it
Selznick, even as Jewish versions of Goldwvn
and Selznick were alreadv extant.