Overcoming oppression, both internal and external, will be the focus when Daniel Cacho and 20 other artists perform at Doikayt, produced by the Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA) and AVADA, a Yiddishkayt Los Angeles project to engage people under 35.
\”I came to klezmer quite by accident,\” said virtuoso clarinetist David Krakauer.\n\nHe was a noted classical musician around 1987 when a chance encounter on a Manhattan bus changed the direction of his career.
\”Danny\’s sister, Michelle, asked, \’What would Danny have liked for his birthday?\” his father said. \”And the answer came naturally; he would have liked a jam session with all his friends. And where were all his friends? They were all over the world. So we began making phone calls.\”
Solid proof that Jew-hating is on the rise is the number of nonfiction titles publishers are releasing on the subject.
Speaking from his London home, the droll, precise Harwood — who won a screenwriting Oscar for \”The Pianist\” — said he tried not to take sides while writing the play and the film.
If it seems unlikely that a nice Jewish girl would become a flamenco dancer, consider her early role models. Or Nili Azulay\’s Syrian-born grandmother, Nona, defied her parents to wed the man she loved, then refused to remarry after he died several years later. Azulay\’s mother, Chaya, became one of Israel\’s first female barristers; her father died when she was a small child. \”The sadness of not having a father was tempered by growing up with these strong, independent women,\” she said.
Much has been written about Jewish talent working in the entertainment industry. But what happens when you\’re a sought-after Jewish writer who also happens to be observant?
Since it opened at Broadway\’s Imperial Theater on Sept. 22, 1964, \”Fiddler on the Roof\” with the late Zero Mostel as Tevye, the milkman trying to preserve his family\’s traditions in the face of a changing world, is still part of the tapestry of Jewish and American culture.
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