RE: Lenny Bruce (and Adrian) on Jewishness

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

You can take the boy out of New York, but (hopefully!) you can't take New 
York ...

P.S.  Adrian--Please let me know if you know of Peter and Debbie's 
performing together again, anywhere in the NEast.  (I'd heard of what you 
mention.)

>From: "Adrian Durlester" <durleste (at) home(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: RE: Lenny Bruce on Jewishness
>Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:56:19 -0500
>
>And, to add to the story, Peter has started a bit of a Jewish rediscovery
>these last few years. He appeared at the UAHC biennial in Dallas a few 
>years
>back, and then, luckily, I was able to arrange for Peter Yarrow and Debbie
>Friedman to be the opening night headliners at the CAJE conference later 
>the
>following year (1998) in San Antonio. Since then, it seems he has been 
>doing
>more and more appearances in a Jewish context.
>
>What about those of us who did grow up in NY and are Jewish, but don't live
>there anymore?
>
>Adrian
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> > [mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Robert Cohen
> > Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 1:03 PM
> > To: World music from a Jewish slant
> > Subject: Re: Lenny Bruce on Jewishness
> >
> >
> > So far as I know, it goes (from L.B.):  If you live in New York, you're
> > Jewish, even if you're not.  If you don't live in New York, you're not
> > Jewish, even if you are.
> >
> > As it happens, one of my favorite *musical* example is Mary Travers (of
> > Peter, Paul & Mary), who grew up in New York and has always
> > seemed sort of
> > an honorary Jew--did things for Hadassah (I think) and Soviet
> > Jewry, at one
> > point went out w/ a Reform rabbi (who, I believe, taught her Steve 
>Sher's
> > {"Dodi Li"), and, reportedly, used to urge Peter Yarrow, who *is* Jewish
> > (and, OK, *also* grew up in NY), to be more so!
> >
> > Just idle thoughts, on top of George's -- rlc
> >
>
>

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