Word: shtetl
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...speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the universe." The biblical and supernatural tales of youth provided the underpinnings of his work. As Singer's rickety Yiddish typewriter chattered away, the ghettos of the Middle Ages rose up again, with a cast of erotic shtetl dwellers and phosphorescent imps. The Jews of 20th century Europe, consumed by the Nazi death camps, were granted the powers of speech and lust...
...choreographed between 1944 and 1964. The sailors from On the Town again saunter through wartime New York, New York. The royal courtesans of The King and I restage Uncle Tom's Cabin, Siamese-style. West Side Story's Sharks and Jets strut toward one more epochal + rumble. The shtetl Jews from Fiddler on the Roof hold true to tradition...
...receive their subject matter, their grammar of signs, in childhood. He was a child of the Russian ghetto, born in the town of Vitebsk in 1887; his father was a herring packer, his grandfather a cantor and kosher butcher, his uncle an amateur violinist. The imagery of music and shtetl folklore, mingled with the face of his childhood sweetheart (and future wife), Bella Ro- senfeld, furnished the unaltering ground of his work for 80 years, long after the close-knit and weak little societies it represented had been incinerated by Hitler and Stalin. "All the little fences, the little cows...
...going too far to argue that Jewish communitarians such as Walzer and Sandel are engaged in a moving but ultimately very particular struggle to synthesize two moral languages, that of American democracy on the one hand and that of the Jewish shtetl on the other? Such an argument would account for Walzer often slipping into a language of universal human rights. But it would explain equally well why Walzer finds in textual criticism his model for social criticism. Has not the community of which he is a part survived by finding a homeland in religious texts...
...failing to stand up for the Pollards. One broadside, published in the Jerusalem Post, came from Political Science Professor Shlomo Avineri, a former director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Addressing U.S. Jews, Avineri declared, "When the going gets tough, your leaders react like trembling Israelites in the shtetl, not like the proud and mighty citizens of a free democratic society . . . America, it now appears, may not be your promised land." Days later the Post reported that U.S. Senator David Durenberger had said privately that the Pollard affair may have had its roots in a 1982 decision by CIA Director...