Re: The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

[Dick Rosenberg <mashke...>]

I just checked with my local library network (Minuteman, western suburbs of
Boston) and, a nekhtige tug, they had it! (At the Brookline library, where
else?) So I ordered it and am looking forward to seeing it. From the
description of the Klezmer scene, the green chewing gum scene, the FDR
scene, it sounds like a Mel Brooks film (I was going to say a Jewish Mel
Brooks film but that would have been redundant).

Thanks to all the music lovers on the list who are also film lovers :-)

Dick Rosenberg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Judith R Cohen" <judithc (at) YorkU(dot)CA>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 5:10 AM
Subject: The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob


> To change the topic, have any of you seen this old (1970's) film by
> Louis de Funès? I saw it
> at the time it came out and then found it in our local public library
> system and we watched it yesterday (in French only, no subtitles; I
> think there's a version with them, though).
> Relevant to JMD, there's a mind-boggling dance scene, at a bar mitzva
> celebration on the streets of the Le Marais area in Paris, with a Muslim
> and a Catholic disguised as Hassidim (I won't tell you why if you
> haven't seen it) dancing away in the centre of it all....
>
> Non-musically, or para-musically  - not only is it still
> hilarious, but the Jewish-Christian-Muslim interactions now seem
> touchingly innocent...
> but it also occured to us that the unparalleled green chewing gum scene
> might be used by as an alternative to, say, bombs - surely
> arranging to have the offenders dumped in vats of liquid green (or
> another colour, one can be flexible) chewing gum is less destructive to
> innocent people, and more ecological,  and possibly even
> more effective?
>
>

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