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The other day I was walking down 34'nStreetGeling pretty hot. The new bright yellow pumps I I hadjust purchasedhad a lot to do with that. As I sashayeddown the boulevard,pumps under my arm, I passedtwo Hasidsstoppedin the middle of the sidewailqarguing in Yiddish. Forgetting myselfi,as I often do, I sloweddramatically,strainingto catchthe drift of what they were saying. I felt the briefestthrill of connection,the feeling I alwaysget when I stumbleupon Yiddish speakers,whoever they may be. The thrill was cut short as they looked at me strangelyand I that they wouldn't have any idea what my , rememberedthe way I must look to them. I imagined interestin them might be. But isn't it obvious?'Look pastthe yellow pumps!It's me, Rokhl, Yiddishist, klezkamper,FolksbieneYiddish Theafie super-titlesuper-kvetcher.'But the moment was over and I went home to ponderthe distancebefween"us" and "them." And to h:y on my , new shoes. lt often seemsas if being a Yiddishist/klezrnophile/secular bnei zion puts one behind an impermeablebarrier when it comesto our more religious kin. But the truth is that if we imagine that barrier to be solid it's only our insecuritythat makesit so. There is an entire specftum betweenmyself, the RootlessCosmopolitanand the WilliamsburgerHasid and it is possibleto frnd commonnodes(and friends)at every point. For example,a lot of my friendsdo ethnographicwork in the Hasidic world. They collect tunes, observedances,interview folks. Has no one noticed that while "we" may look to thosesheltered communitiesfor raw material,it is truly the secularworld of Klerkamp and its ilk that is keeping the traditional Jewish arts alive in any meaningfulway. Justrecently a council of Hasidic Rebbes in Brooklyn declaredtlrat the numberof musiciansat any simkhe could not exceedtwo. That's right, trvo. How will traditionalJewishsimkhemusic survive in such an ahnosphere?The Rebbes haveperfectly good, humanerc:rsonsfor imposing suchhard measures.It is appropriatefor their community. But, barukh ha-shem,thereis an enorrnouscommunity out here in my world tending the flame of traditional simkhemusic. Further,many of my readershave probablynoticed that Klezkamp and its imitators havegotten progressivelymore accommodatingto observantfolk. You're not imagining it, I've spokenwith peoplewho have been with this thing from the very beginningand they tell me that the tone of theseevents,especiallycome Shabbes,was never as full with the faux-brengenspirit (pseudoHasidicjoyousness)as they are today. And more and more religious folk come every year. It used to be a truism that the peoplewho embracedYiddish and klezrnerwith the most zeal were the oneswho were the most alienatedfiom mainstreamreligiosity. While thosefolks are still around (hey there!) it's no longer so easyto make such sweepingstatsments. And finally, if you neededfirther proof that we truly are a spectrum, consider the fact that a small, but significang contingentof Hasidic folk are seekingout secularYiddish culture on a regular basis.Being the super-titleoperatorat the Folksbienethis seasonallowed me to observe gs51hand the 2,3 or 5 young Hasidic men at every show-One night we had two couplescome and tre husbandof one of the couplescouldn't stop praisingthe show to the director, telling him how his wife would hear nothing but lines and phrasesfrom the show for the next two weeks. And this was a show with a woman singrng and men and women dancing with each other! Consider also a friend of mine who doesa secular radio show in Yiddish featuring new Jewish music and other Jewishnews.[n Hasidic Brooklyn he is a celebrity. B'emes,ben emunes. !

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Isn't this what being a RootlessCosmpolitanis all about.The confidenceto go from fauxbrengento real-brengenand the love of one's peoplethat drives you to seekout the unique spirit that every different Jew has to offer. As always,peaceand irie vibes, RootlessCosmopolitans.

Zayt bagrisrand borckh habo, Rootless Cosrnpolitans I have so much to say to you sometmesI can't even sleepat night I toss and hrm thinkins alnut which Jcwish Heroes shall get shouts-outin the Editor's Note this year. Hmnq there's Elzet, otherwisc known as Rabbi Judah [,eyb Zlotnick. Rabbi, lawyer, folklorist. He wrote under a pseudonym becausehis sccular ways conflicted with his religious beliefs. Soundslike one ofus, to me. One of Elzet's truJy phanomenal cfea[ons was a book called "Davenen." Within were collecterl hundredsof Yiddish sayings basedon thc Jewish liturgical cyclc. Just one dclicious example:of a ncwly mamed lad who dawdlcd a Shabbcsmoming wirh his wife (ending to one duty) when he should have been in shul (rendingto another duty) it was said "F'adoyt er ahava raba, kurnt er nisht tsu shma yisroel." I hope you'll buy back issres of RC or sead me submissions

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I hope you'lt share your top Jewishguilry pleasureswith me. Mine are (rn no particular order): 'l clcvised FriarsClub Roasts,A&m Sandler,The Red Tent and the Nanny.

I also want you to know that I got the best late Klanike present the other day when I heard Fyvush Finkel speakng Yiddish to Al Franken during the Oy Oy Oy Show. Oy, it was a mekhaye. On tlrat note, I rernain full ofobsessions, passronsand love for my rnfrriatingly fabulous and stiff necked people. Mit liebe, Rokhl bas Cyprus (Rachael Ka&isserl Rootless ; Cosmopolitan and Original Daughrer of Zi<xr)

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I hadto remind myself more thanonce while readingKiddush ha-Shemthat thoughthe eventsof the book takeplace in 1648,SholemAschwrote itin 1926. In New York City. For all I know, he couldhavebeensitting in his apartment on WestEnd Avenueand writing in a cafeteriaon Broadwayduring the aftemoon.And Yet. Despitethe skin crawlinglybad translationof one Rufus Learsi,Kiddush ha-Shemis utterly compellingandtransportsoneright into Ukraineof 1648.EvervdavJewishlife of the 176 century,itsie*iures, smells, andmost importantly,its everpresent dreadjump offthe paper.Asch masterfullydealswith one of the themes which traditionallyhasbeenthe subject of so much Jewishambivalence,selfdefenseand the usesof violence.

resentments and religioustensionisrew, theChmielnickiuprising.Zlocnov i"s destroyedand the Jewsflee where thev can.A numberof themeventually end up seekingrefuge within the fortifieA ya.llsoflhe city of Tulchin. There,an alliancebetweenpole andJew is f"ig.a andtogethertheyexperience ,or. " thrillingvictoriesagainstthe Cossack hordes.Thesevictoriesare the most excltrngscenesin the book. Kiddushha-Shemmeans..sanctifi cation of the name"and it is a mitzveto i," fo, the sanctificationof His name.Thi;meansthat Jewsareobligatedto choose martyrdomratherthan be forced to commit threedifferentacts:murder of anotherJew, forbiddensexualrelations and idolatry.A Jew is alsoobligatedto die ratherthan be forced,for thi pu.por" of religiouspersecution, to transgrestt. l1w (any religiouslaw) publicty"One alsodiesa martyrif he or streis titteC simply becausesheis a Jew.But *t ui of the Jew who is able to defendtrimseli Whar is his obligarionto himsetf anjlo otherJews?

TheChmielnickiuprisingof 1648has beencalled,with little exaggeration, a mini-Holocaust.One hundredthousand Jewswere murderedby Cossacksled by BogdanChmielnicki.The Cossacksand Ukrainiansresentedthe way that the Polishnoblesruled them fiom afar by usingthe Jewsas their intermediaries. For example,Kiddu.rhha-Shemfeatures a Jewishinnkeeper(and the parnossof Zlochov)who is also forcedby the local Polishnoblemanto hold the key to the Ukrainianchwch. When the Ukrainians want to openthe church for a baptism, the come to the innkeeperand beg him to open the church,though they have no moneyto pay the tax imposedby the

First we must examinethe thrilling battle sceneswith which we, the Jewishieader. are rewardedafter sufferingthrough so much Jewishsuffering.In the fortified city of Tulchin the Jewsof Zlochov seek refugeand enter into their alliance with the Poles.Asch goesinto great detail of the cunningand savagerywith which the Jews meetthe attackingCossacks.

nobleman.The Jew is torn between wanting to let the tlkrainians in to the churchwithout payingand fearingthe retribution to be exactedon him by the nobleman.

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"FrequentlYthe Jewsallowedtne to comecloseto the Cossacks their crowbarsfor aPPIY rvall and makinga breach.Thenthe Jews rvouldsuddenlYhurl down uponthema hail ofrocks and pour down on their heads cauldronsof seething tallow...And more thanoncedid the Jews,as in the ancienttimes of Jerusalem,sallYforth out of the citY,and with uttercontempt ofdeath,theYfell uPonthe ranks of the Cossacks,killed manYof them,and drove the rest back to " theirtents... tt's hardnot to inwardlYcheerthe fervrshvictoryon the fortified walls of f ulchin.After pageafter achingpageof i'apeand murderof innocentJews-oh non goodit feelsto be that which we haveso longbeendenied:a courageous, porrerful, cunningJew. But as the battle rages,the descriptions Ncome moregruesome: "With criesandblazingeYes' theY[the Jews] tore through the cloudsof smokewhich belchedfrom the mouthsof the cannon,and fell uPonthe Cossacks,bit them with their teeth,gougedout their eYeswith their fingers'and with their long knivestheYslashedthroatsand cleavedheads." Thoughwe are still cheeringthis new hc'roicJerv,the readerbecomes discomfortedwith so much eye gouging and throatslashing.All of a suddena thoughtoccursto the cheeringJew readingthis tale of uniqueJewish .ouragi' is such violence tobe savored'l Am I injoying thisjust a little too much? What is to follow sucha ghastlY transformatioriof the formerly meek ghettoJew? Immediatelyfollowing the descriptionof the peakof Jewishviolence,Asch brings us to the tent of the Cossackleader Knvonos.He is receivinga folk remedy

for his achingbones.An old woman bringsa live kid to the warriorand tells him to bathehimselfin its bloodand cover his legswith the body.It's a thoroughlydisgustingscene.The otd womantells the Cossack,"You have givenSatanhis due,now he will calm himself."As if that weren'tenough,in the next line we readthat"the Cossack leadernow felt his pain relieved.The young,fresh,still palpitatinglittle body yieldeda pleasantwarmthlike the body of an infant."Ewww. Of course,it's easyto distanceoneself from suchbehavior.The readeris not madeto identifuwith the Cossackleader Krivonos.But thejuxtapositionof the bloodiestscenesof Jewishviolencewith that of the Cossackbathingin the blood of a sacrificialkid is the way that SholemAsch forcedus to examineour own embraceof Jewishviolence. The final battlefinds theJewsof Zlochov in a position wherethey can avoid their own marryrdom.They have joined forceswith the Polesto successfullyfight offthe Cossacks.At the momentthat the Jewsmight really triumph over their enemy,it is revealed that their Polishallies havesoldthem out to the Cossacks.The Jewsare summoneden masseto the castleof the PolishDuke andtold to not only surrendertheir valuables,but all their weapons.The betrayalis revealed.The first reactionof the Jewsis to massacre the Poles: "And there was a young man there from Karsoon;he was thin and tall and his eyesblazed with the vengeanceof God. His ear-lockstrembledand the teeth in his jaws chattered with anger, for the wrath of the Lord burned strongwithin him. And he snatchedup a long knife and cried to the Jews:'The Gentiles have betrayedus herejust as in Nemirov. Let us avenge ourselveson them with the vengeanceof the [ord, for God and his Torah.'

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Beginningin the l6n century, Polisharistocratsadoptedwhat theybelievedto be the dressof this earlyBosphorankingdom.But havingno ideawhat real had lookedlike, they Sarmatians substitutedthe costumeof the Turkish and Tartar warriors that ChristianEuropefacedin its battleswith the Oftomans.

RootlessCosmopolitanreadersare probablyawareof the connection betweenHasidicmen's dressand { the gqb worn by Polishnobility of I the l8b cenftry. Today,kapotes (blackcaftans)tied with gartlscan be found in Hasidicneighborhoods like Williamsburg,Boro Park and Mea Shearim.But tracingthe origin of this styletakesus on an interestingtrip far eastof the Vistula. I

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Polishportraitureof the times showsmenwith shavedheads, longwhiskers,caftansand lanciful (soundfuniliar?) Often headware theyareposedreclininglike Sultans.

The milieu that gaverise to the Hasidicadoptionof the caftanwas the l8h centurvPolish/Lithuanian Commonwealth-the land from which the Baal ShemTov created a revolutionarystrainof Jewish practice.The Polisharistocracy, calledthe Szlachta,had constructeda nationalmyth to justify their superiorstatus.

of the The Polishenlightenment late l8thcenturysu'eptau'a1'the the Ironically', cultof Sarmatism. liveson in the aesthetic Sarmatian streetsof Brooklvn.whcreultraorthodoxJewishmcn dresslike rrho borrowed Catholicaristocrats costumesfrom Muslirnu'arriorsin an effortto irnitatenomadic pagans.

Sarmatismwas the belief that the Szlachtawere descended from ancientTurco-lraniantribeswho invadedfrom the Black Seato rule over the Slavicpeasantry.While todaythe conceptseemslaughable, it was consistentwith the nationalisticmythologiesof the times. The Arthurian legendserved a similarpurposefor the monarchs of England.

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It is clear from the previousvictories of the Jewsover the Cossacks(alongside the Poles)that, shouldthey decideto keepfighting, they could massacrethe Polesand the approachingCossacks' Thus the "white beard" (speakingfor

.\rc thcscthe merciful sonsof '.r-'mercrtul?... Jewsare ;r'sgrnsrblefor one another!If r trukrll thc-Gentiles,theywill 3\ engcthemselveson the Jews tri othercities...We will notbe liLeuo\Gentiles...We will not rvrth revenge the ;vofane KrJdushha-ShemwhichGod rqurresof us."

ScholemAsch himselfl)appealsnot so much to the halakhic imperativeof selfsacrifice,thoughself-sacrificeis requiredto avoid taking the life of anotherJew or Jews.More convincingly, Asch seeksto cultivate within his reader a disgustand distrust for the violence suchdefenseencompasses. Is a life worth living, Asch asksus, once we haveallowed our enemiesto reduceus to their level?

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with SpiLial Referenceto her Legal Positionis a 16-pagepamphlet;written and privatelyprintedin tltZ Uya somewhatmysteriousEnglishwoman named"L. Hands."SomiDrPculties doesindeeddeliveron its tiile's promise. ,,-_ .. ,, Surveyingthe Jewishlegalpositionof ,fu2*'ry* women,Ms. Handsu.curutily pinpoints the "Difliculties" arisingfrom historical reasoningappliedin the all-too-hereand-now.First and foremostamong

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(Beset,con't from previouspage) at the Internationa WomenZionistswhich was heldin Londonin July 1920.It is conceivable that she was the Lydia Handswho, in 1880,publisheda versionfor young readersof the Germanmedievalepic poem, the Nibelungenlied.But a breakof almost40 yearsbetweenpublished works seemsunlikely,and unlessshe were very young at the time of her Mtttel Deut.schphase,shewould haveto be ratherelderlyby the time of the 1920 conference.The name"L. Hands"does. in its simplicity,suggesta pseudonym, but arguingagainstthis is the pamphlet's inscription.Distributionwasprivate, with the title pageverso marked"From Miss Hands,57, PortsdownRoad, London,W-9"; and written in by handin virtually every extantcopy,"With compliments."Why sendcomplimentsif the addresseecouldn't be surewho you were?Thus we must assumethat our friend and foremotherL. Handswas simplya rank-and-fileJewessboth wellversedin traditionalJewishknowledqe and amply Besetby the attendant problemstherein.

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Sidney Hillman (born in Lithuani4 yeshivarebel, legendarylabor organissl, helped found the CIO)

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and culture. I found a variety ofjobs administrativework in Yiddish organizations,cataloging archiving, teaching,performing, child care.At one point last year, I realizedI had eight jobs. I was running betweentwo or three different jobs in one day, skipping dinner, trying to balancethe needsof many dernanding employers.Sincethen, it has stabilized somewhat yet I often still feel like a yeshive-bokher;eatingdays at different jobs in orderto ekeout a living. My day-to-daywork is often mundaneexceptfor the fact that it's canied out in a languagethat many insist is alreadydead. Composingand banslatingbilingual correspondence and articles; organizing cultrual eventsand meetings;plodding throughpiles of books - literary masterpieces,obscureself-publishedpoets, grisly Holocaustmemoirs,translationsof classics,and new (yes, new) novels and poetry; preparingnew literary and linguistic projects,strugglingwith cryptic handwritten entriesand pageafter page of Yiddish text; tediouslycatalogingarchivesand databases. I even care for Yiddish-speakingchildren playing in the snow,cooking noodles, readingbooks in Yiddish and English, and learningfrom eachother. I also perfonn as a Yiddish singer and songwriter,sometimes evenas an actor. It is especiallyexhilarating to perform for an audiencewho understands the language. I'm thrilled just to be in New York and to be working with Yiddish, but like the freshfacedyoung artist who comesto the big city to make it, I have also becomeolder and wiser - some might say cynical and disillusioned.It's a tazy life, and the instability really grateson me. I neverknow if onejob will be theretomorrow, if the organization'smoney will run out or if someonemore aggressivewill shouldertheir

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Reviewed byRokhtbas Cyprus ignoramuscan come as close to God as the greatestrabbinic scholar. He made Judoism meoningful for the mossesat a time when its humanqualities were being neglectedby its rabbinic leaders. Punk rock showedthat, similarly, any guitar and a lignoramus with accessto a iminimum of chordscould changethe of the music world forever if possessed dgfit kavonah. Ignoramusesaround the lworld cheered. I I

I Unfortunately,the Misnagdim'ssub!g"*" of punk nevertook off. For iexample,one of the best songson the ialbum, Get the hell of my bima you !bloody skinheadsQ"kiah) would seem 'to be in the vein of the popular antiracist genre.But the song is actuallya rarity for punk rock, an instrumental featuringa 33 secondshofar solo. The rest of the album is made up of clumsy diatribesand not one but two circumcisionprotestsongs:Pieceof V Thing and OrelaArgument.The low point probablycomeswith the Misnagdim's attemptto deal with the touchy subjectof inter-marriage."Dea to my family" containsthe memorable refrain "l married a shiksas/rebbewat to fix her/ I'm deadto my family/dead my familyidead to my family/ but hap in bed6."

The great historian Jacob Rader Marcus saysthat "Hasidism was not a revolt againstthe Jewish religion but againstits leadersand their interpretation of it. The Besht[Ba'al ShemTov] taughta new

While the Misnagdim's one and only releaseis interestingto us as a curious reflectionof a very specific time and place,it is also a reminderof the challenge,and limitations, of permanent

wayto worshipGod...He insisted spiritualperfectioncomesnot through learningbut throughpersonal devoutness, andthusthe humblest

revolution as an artistic mode. rI1eD. Opponents ' A leading exporterofhyphenated namesand

Merlin Shepard ' He also apparentlyfanciedhimself a Jewish Samuel Goldwyn and a Jewish David O. Selznick, even as Jewish versions of Goldwvn and Selznick were alreadv extant.

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