Family Business
Diane Arieff
May 22, 1997
Back in the heyday of the self-made Jewish movie moguls, the studios were, to a certain degree, family businesses.
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May 22, 1997
Up Front
Rob Eshman
May 22, 1997
At the Dixieland Jubilee in Sacramento, the annual super bowl of jazz, the band that got the most ecstatic reception a couple of years ago was cradled a few thousand miles east of New Orleans.\n\nIt was the Jerusalem Jazz Band, whose members hail each other by such fine old Southern names as Boris, Mika, Shmulik, Stanislav and Aaron.
After the
Rob Eshman
May 22, 1997
The most astonishing account in Hector Feliciano\’s always-astonishing new nonfiction book, \”The Lost Museum\” (Basic Books), follows Adolf Hitler on a visit to the Paris Opera House on June 28, 1940, the Führer\’s first, and only, visit to the city.
On Strongmen and
Jewish Journal
May 22, 1997
Donald Freed is a rarity among playwrights: He is primarily an ideologue who, instead of producing documentary films or constructing journalistic accounts of the \”truth\” behind the news headlines, writes plays.
Celebrating Israel’s Independence
Jewish Journal
May 22, 1997
While it may be true that if you ask two Jews a question, you\’re likely to get three different opinions, it appears that thousands were in agreement last Sunday: The Israel Independence Day Festival at Hansen Dam was the place to be to celebrate the Jewish State\’s 49th birthday. Festival organizers said that attendance reached 10,000 for the daylong event, which featured food, live entertainment, cultural exhibits, picnic areas and a children\’s amusement park.
The Great Mulholland Divide
Tom Tugend
May 22, 1997
When I was a UCLA student, some…uh…50 years ago and lived in Hollywood, I thought nothing of picking up a date in Boyle Heights, but I wouldn\’t even consider going out with a girl from the San Fernando Valley.\n
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