We forget a lot. It is natural. It is also, at times, convenient. Here is a fascinating and inspiring bit of history, on the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, of how Jews in Palestine, in wishing to practice their religion, were treated by the occupying British because of the Arab intolerance of Jews. In a […]
James Joyce – 16 April: Portait of the Artist as a Young Man
Jazz Is: 10 – Throw It Away
We lost Abbey Lincoln a few weeks ago. Pagamaestro has put together this lovely photo collage in memoriam, and this song is so appropriate to sending her off. The musical arrangement and performance are so fine and Lincoln’s vocal just stunning. Lincoln imbues her very wise lyric with experience and passion,and maybe a bit of […]
eight cuts on the sad red earth
The other day I offered the happy report that the sad red earth has been short listed for the Christoper Al-Aswad Prize. Today, Dan Holloway’s eight cuts, administrator of the prize, is highlighting the sad red earth on the eight cuts blog, part of a month long introduction of the finalists before the announcement of […]
How We Lived on It (24) – Russia in Color, a Century Ago
I wrote yesterday of being called home from Budapest, on the way to visit the shtetl in which my father was born, because of my father’s illness, from which he soon died. Two months later, in October 2005, Julia and I completed that journey to Orinin, in the historic Podolia region of Ukraine, the Jewish […]