The Yiddish Walk of Fame

Here is the Yiddish Walk of Fame, located at East 10th Street and Second Avenue:

And:  from Famous Ankles

Walk this way with: Jennie Goldstein and Ida Kaminska, Lillian Lux and Pesack Burstein, Joseph Buloff and Luba Kadison, Abraham Goldfaden and Michal Michalesko, Miriam Kressyn and Seymour Rexite, Abraham Goldfaden gets a second star, for being the founder of the Yiddish Theater in 1876, “Alt Raymond” and Barry Sisters, Jack Rechtzeit and Mike Burstyn,   Max Bozyk and Rose Bozyk, Boris Thomashevsky and Bessie Thomashevsky, Ed Fuchs and Rebecca Richman Shulon Seckoa (possibly Sholum Secunda) and Peretz Sandler, Molly Picon and Jacob Kalich,  Leon Liebgold and Lilly Lilyana, Mary Soreanu and Lucy Levine, Irving Jacobson and Ben Bonas/Ben Donus and Mina Bern, Ludwig Satz and Moishe Oysher, David Kessler and Zvi Scooler, Herman Yablokoff and Bella Meisel, Alexander Olshanetsky and Abe Ellstein,  Mischa Gehrman and Lucy Gehrman, Joseph Rumshinsky and Arnold Perlmutter, Jacob Jacobs and Betty Jacobs, Maurice Schwartz Henrietta Jacobson, and Julius Adler Daniel Libeskin!!

Take a look!

at the Museum of the City of New York

New York's Yiddish Theater, From the Bowery to Broadway

 "From the late 19th to the mid- 20th century, a thriving Yiddish theater culture blossomed on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, entertaining over 1.5 million first and second generation Eastern-European Jewish immigrants. Second Avenue became the “Yiddish Broadway,” where audiences of new New Yorkers celebrated their culture and learned about urban life in the city via cutting-edge dramas, musical comedies, and avant-garde political theater. As stars of the Yiddish stage gained mainstream popularity, New York’s Yiddish theater became an American phenomenon. This legacy resonates today through enduring dramatic themes, classic New York humor, and a large crop of crossover actors, directors, and designers who found work on the mainstream New York stage and in Hollywood."

And:  

Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half

the collection

marjorie-palimpsests 11/2015

marjorie-palimpsests 10/2015

at the NYC Discovery Center

Vikings - The Exhibition

Two Films

Brooklyn, in The New York Times

Carol, in The New York Times

my reviews, coming soon......

The Mews

in the NYPost  (labels coming soon)

 Oh! Those secret NYC streets are magical!

Grim Reality

"We all have a death sentence. If you get the right tests and recommended procedures.... all you really get is a stay of execution." © Marjorie J. Levine 2016

Is it not so that very early in life we know that sooner or later we will die? I think death has to be a huge designed practical joke.

What's the difference between those sitting on death row and those walking around on free side? Those walking around will also die, but they get to "play" until that unknown day comes while those on death row sit "confined" until their scheduled date of death. Same end game.

I really find so much of life totally preposterous.... the deluded masses walking around carefree while sophisticates invent ways to entertain us with made up stuff like opera, ballet, books and films while we are like sitting ducks carrying on like total lunatics on a great ball of land and water suspended in a vast universe.

Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor..... all lived great lives filled with fun and adventure and all their experiences now for them are not even a memory.

Death can be compared to jury duty in that the many postponements fill us with great glee every time... but eventually it gets us. We are cornered and there is no way out. I suppose the old saying is true: "the house wins every time."

Death: it's just such a "killjoy" concept...

Water Mill, Long Island

Snowy bright days in a summer town:

The Hudson Valley

Olana website

Olana

"Built on a hardscrabble farm in Columbia County, this mansion was the home of renowned Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church, who spent the final 40 years of his life designing the manor and its surrounding landscape."

Mount Merino Manor

Thomas Cole website

Thomas Cole House

Valley Stream, NY