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“Cursing in Yiddish is part of the Latin musician’s birthright!”
So says Latin musician Arturo O’Farrill, a pianist who is one of the key figures in New York’s Afro-Caribbean scene.
There’s no cursing, per se, on ‘Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos,’ an album of Yiddish tunes given full-on Latin dance treatment. But there’s some great cross-cultural …
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As the 93-year-old pianist and the Korean singer launched into a high-octane take on “Hava Nagilah,” the sold-out crowd went wild, swaying, shimmying and stomping to the beat. Was this another one of those weird dreams I have whenever I drink too much Concord wine? No, it was the Jews On Vinyl Revue at the …
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From the opening images of an eerily serene Barry Manilow and a pelvis-thrusting Neil Diamond, the album covers in “And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl” are so perfectly dated—and hilariously kitschy—that it’s impossible to look away. The product of two men’s obsessive record collecting, the book examines 20th-century Jewish history …
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Roger Bennett and Josh Kun are the authors of “And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost.”
Our book is the product of five years of obsessively collecting vinyl from across the country — a work of passion that …
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Growing up in Liverpool, England, in the 1980s, Roger Bennett was not a traditional Jew. In his adolescence he was as likely to be found on Saturday mornings at soccer games as at synagogue, and had a bar mitzvah immediately followed by a punk-rock theme party.
But while he was being introduced to A Flock …
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