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📽️ The Royalty Cinema, Harbourne, Birmingham. A grand and lavish Art Deco venue built in the 1930s, witness the golden age of cinema. Lost to arsonist flames, now only a memory.
#Birmingham #ArtDeco #Architecture #Photography #History #Cinema #1930s #BuildingsAtRisk
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📽️ The Royalty Cinema, Harbourne, Birmingham. A grand and lavish Art Deco venue built in the 1930s, witness the golden age of cinema. Lost to arsonist flames, now only a memory.
#Birmingham #ArtDeco #Architecture #Photography #History #Cinema #1930s #BuildingsAtRisk
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Some pre-Baby Teeth lettering from 1932: https://picpile.stewf.com/626314/37992776
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Some pre-Baby Teeth lettering from 1932: https://picpile.stewf.com/626314/37992776
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Lucille Ball's Early Hollywood Breakthrough in 'Roman Scandals' (1933)
📰 Original title: Roman Scandals
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I came across this fascinating essay on photomontage by Gustavs Klucis (Gustav Klutsis). It reminded me how vital the visual culture of the USSR could be before its stultification as Stalinism deepened. I'll have to find out when Klutsis wrote this piece.
The mugshot near the foot of the text reminds us that in 1938 Klutsis was put to death in one of Stalin's purges.
The page includes about fifty montages.
#Art #Photography #PhotoMontage #SovietArt #GustavKlutsis #LatvianArtists #1920s #1930s
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I came across this fascinating essay on photomontage by Gustavs Klucis (Gustav Klutsis). It reminded me how vital the visual culture of the USSR could be before its stultification as Stalinism deepened. I'll have to find out when Klutsis wrote this piece.
The mugshot near the foot of the text reminds us that in 1938 Klutsis was put to death in one of Stalin's purges.
The page includes about fifty montages.
#Art #Photography #PhotoMontage #SovietArt #GustavKlutsis #LatvianArtists #1920s #1930s
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Chauffer’s Lodge, Miramonte, Coombe, Kingston upon Thames
1936
Maxwell Fry
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Chauffer’s Lodge, Miramonte, Coombe, Kingston upon Thames
1936
Maxwell Fry
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I have first hand acquaintance with the works of eight of the ten authors thought by 1936 readers of "The Colophon" to be writers of books that would be esteemed as classics long into the future. This familiarity of mine is not unusual; most educated Americans will have at least some knowledge, even if only at second hand, of Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Eugene O’Neill, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Robert Frost.
Dreiser might be less well known. In spite of his importance in US literary history, his themes will seem distant and dull to many readers today and his prose wordy and clumsy.
I've never read anything by the popular historian James Truslow Adams, although I was aware that he coined the phrase "The American Dream" for a 1931 book.
George Santayana has fallen into obscurity today outside the ranks of historians of American philosophy. I have read a little by him; I should read more. My guess is that he earned his place in this poll not on account of his philosophical works but by virtue of his 1935 bestseller "The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel", which I have not yet read but is on my To Be Read List.
James Branch Cabell achieved fame with his comic fantasy "Jurgen" in 1919. Subsequently he churned out a large number of fantasies, historical novels, essays, and poems, but his popularity was waning by the 1930s. I have never read anything by him and have no interest in doing so.
I've read a lot of Sinclair Lewis, who topped the poll. He was a witty observer not only of the peculiarities of America life in the early decades of the 20th century but also of forces and habits that continue to shape the culture of the USA. Nor was he simply a chronicler of social mores; his best novels, like "Dodsworth" and "Arrowsmith", while deeply rooted in US culture, also speak to human dilemmas and passions that transcend the time and place of their setting.
I would like to echo the article's question "Who would you put on a list of authors read today who will still be read into the year 2080 and beyond?"
I can't give an informed answer because I do not read that much contemporary literature, so I am eager to see who might be nominated by those better read in this area than I am.
#Literature #AmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #20thCenturyLiterature #21stCenturyLiterature #1930s #Classics #LiteraryReputation
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I have first hand acquaintance with the works of eight of the ten authors thought by 1936 readers of "The Colophon" to be writers of books that would be esteemed as classics long into the future. This familiarity of mine is not unusual; most educated Americans will have at least some knowledge, even if only at second hand, of Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Eugene O’Neill, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Robert Frost.
Dreiser might be less well known. In spite of his importance in US literary history, his themes will seem distant and dull to many readers today and his prose wordy and clumsy.
I've never read anything by the popular historian James Truslow Adams, although I was aware that he coined the phrase "The American Dream" for a 1931 book.
George Santayana has fallen into obscurity today outside the ranks of historians of American philosophy. I have read a little by him; I should read more. My guess is that he earned his place in this poll not on account of his philosophical works but by virtue of his 1935 bestseller "The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel", which I have not yet read but is on my To Be Read List.
James Branch Cabell achieved fame with his comic fantasy "Jurgen" in 1919. Subsequently he churned out a large number of fantasies, historical novels, essays, and poems, but his popularity was waning by the 1930s. I have never read anything by him and have no interest in doing so.
I've read a lot of Sinclair Lewis, who topped the poll. He was a witty observer not only of the peculiarities of America life in the early decades of the 20th century but also of forces and habits that continue to shape the culture of the USA. Nor was he simply a chronicler of social mores; his best novels, like "Dodsworth" and "Arrowsmith", while deeply rooted in US culture, also speak to human dilemmas and passions that transcend the time and place of their setting.
I would like to echo the article's question "Who would you put on a list of authors read today who will still be read into the year 2080 and beyond?"
I can't give an informed answer because I do not read that much contemporary literature, so I am eager to see who might be nominated by those better read in this area than I am.
#Literature #AmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #20thCenturyLiterature #21stCenturyLiterature #1930s #Classics #LiteraryReputation
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...this volume of essays by Camus first published in 1938.
I don't follow IVE closely enough to know if Liz is actually reading this book. It could well just be a prop, although I would be delighted to discover that the book is hers.
Book or no book....
#Kpop #AlbertCamus #Noces #Books #FrenchLiterature #20thCenturyLiterature #1930s
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...this volume of essays by Camus first published in 1938.
I don't follow IVE closely enough to know if Liz is actually reading this book. It could well just be a prop, although I would be delighted to discover that the book is hers.
Book or no book....
#Kpop #AlbertCamus #Noces #Books #FrenchLiterature #20thCenturyLiterature #1930s
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August 4, 1933 and Grover Whalen Slanders Our City at Vintage Edmonton:
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August 4, 1933 and Grover Whalen Slanders Our City at Vintage Edmonton:
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"Named In Chicago Racket Indictment"
August 4, 1933
#OTD #AlCapone #AaronSapiro
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"Named In Chicago Racket Indictment"
August 4, 1933
#OTD #AlCapone #AaronSapiro
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Avshalomov -- Hutongs of Peking -- Yu Long & Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
https://youtu.be/dlI-VGJLTWc?si=9mYiGMA-TGkQBFVDThis is the first time I've heard of Aaron Avshalomov, let alone the 1931 "Hutongs of Peking"; of course, this might reflect ignorance or at least parochialism on my own part rather than any obscurity of Avshalimov.
Oddly enough, I was reminded of another piece of orchestral topographic programme music composed only a few years before, Resphighi's "Pines of Rome".
I wonder how popular or well known this piece is amongst Chinese music lovers today.
The notes by DW in the description section provide helpful biographical information on Avshalimov.
#ClassicalMusic #Avshalomov #HutongsOfPeking #ChineseMusic #Beijing #20thCenturyMusic #1930s #ProgrammeMusic
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Avshalomov -- Hutongs of Peking -- Yu Long & Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
https://youtu.be/dlI-VGJLTWc?si=9mYiGMA-TGkQBFVDThis is the first time I've heard of Aaron Avshalomov, let alone the 1931 "Hutongs of Peking"; of course, this might reflect ignorance or at least parochialism on my own part rather than any obscurity of Avshalimov.
Oddly enough, I was reminded of another piece of orchestral topographic programme music composed only a few years before, Resphighi's "Pines of Rome".
I wonder how popular or well known this piece is amongst Chinese music lovers today.
The notes by DW in the description section provide helpful biographical information on Avshalimov.
#ClassicalMusic #Avshalomov #HutongsOfPeking #ChineseMusic #Beijing #20thCenturyMusic #1930s #ProgrammeMusic
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17 Great Depression recipes people still use during hard times https://www.diningandcooking.com/2754386/17-great-depression-recipes-people-still-use-during-hard-times-2/ #19291939 #1930s #AshCakes #Cooking #food #FrugalMeals #GreatDepression #GreatDepressionCake #GreatDepressionFood #GreatDepressionMeals #GreatDepressionRecipe #GreatDepressionRecipes #GreatDepressionSoup #GreatestGeneration #HooverStew #RecipeTopics #Recipes #RivelSoup #SoupRecipes #StewRecipes #TheGreatDepression #TomatoSoupCake #WackyCake #WaterPie
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17 Great Depression recipes people still use during hard times https://www.diningandcooking.com/2754386/17-great-depression-recipes-people-still-use-during-hard-times-2/ #19291939 #1930s #AshCakes #Cooking #food #FrugalMeals #GreatDepression #GreatDepressionCake #GreatDepressionFood #GreatDepressionMeals #GreatDepressionRecipe #GreatDepressionRecipes #GreatDepressionSoup #GreatestGeneration #HooverStew #RecipeTopics #Recipes #RivelSoup #SoupRecipes #StewRecipes #TheGreatDepression #TomatoSoupCake #WackyCake #WaterPie
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https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibition/encounters-1930s
"Encounters with the 1930s"
As soon as I spotted the catalogue for this exhibition at Half Price Books this afternoon, I pulled it off the shelf to join works on Prohibition, the 1933 Business Plot, and John Dewey.
Perhaps I'm being careless both in money and shelf space, yet I know through bitter experience that if I hadn't bought these books today, I would have returned a few days later to see gaps on the shelves where they had been.
I suspect somebody else in town shares my interests and is also a regular at HPB; does s/he splash out at times so as to preempt me?
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https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibition/encounters-1930s
"Encounters with the 1930s"
As soon as I spotted the catalogue for this exhibition at Half Price Books this afternoon, I pulled it off the shelf to join works on Prohibition, the 1933 Business Plot, and John Dewey.
Perhaps I'm being careless both in money and shelf space, yet I know through bitter experience that if I hadn't bought these books today, I would have returned a few days later to see gaps on the shelves where they had been.
I suspect somebody else in town shares my interests and is also a regular at HPB; does s/he splash out at times so as to preempt me?
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As an impecunious teenager in the UK years ago, I was delighted to pick up this recording of the 5th Symphony of Shostakovitch for 50p at W. H. Smith.
I had already heard and been delighted by the 1st Symphony, so I spent my money on the strength of the composer's name alone.
It's a very different work, of course -- dramatic, bleak at times, but also lyrical and perhaps ironic too. I've never tired of it.
I've listened to some of the other symphonies since then (not the 2nd or 3rd) but come back to the 1st and the 5th as my favourites.
It might not be obvious from the garish album cover that this recording is in fact a reissue of....
#ClassicalMusic #Shostakovitch #5thSymphony #RussianMusic #SovietMusic #20thCenturyMusic #Symphonic #1930s #Stalinism
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As an impecunious teenager in the UK years ago, I was delighted to pick up this recording of the 5th Symphony of Shostakovitch for 50p at W. H. Smith.
I had already heard and been delighted by the 1st Symphony, so I spent my money on the strength of the composer's name alone.
It's a very different work, of course -- dramatic, bleak at times, but also lyrical and perhaps ironic too. I've never tired of it.
I've listened to some of the other symphonies since then (not the 2nd or 3rd) but come back to the 1st and the 5th as my favourites.
It might not be obvious from the garish album cover that this recording is in fact a reissue of....
#ClassicalMusic #Shostakovitch #5thSymphony #RussianMusic #SovietMusic #20thCenturyMusic #Symphonic #1930s #Stalinism
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17 Great Depression recipes people still cook today during hard times
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17 Great Depression recipes people still cook today during hard times
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The Evolution of 1930s Swimwear: From Modesty to Style
📰 Original title: Vintage Beach Fashion of the 1930s: Glamorous Swimwear Photos From the Pre-Bikini Era
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Spirituality & Religious Studies @spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com@spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com ·Ashkenazi Jews
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Also known as Ashkenazic Jews, Ashkenazis, or Ashkenazim.
This is a form of distinct ethnic subdivision of the Jewish Diaspora. Emerging from the Jewish communities that consolidated during the 10th century in the Rhineland (Western Germany) & northern France. They migrated there from centers such as the Italian peninsula & the Southern Levant. This includes present-day Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, & Jordan.
After numerous massacres of Jews during the Crusades (11th-13th centuries), they began a gradual eastward migration due to mounting restrictions within the Holy Roman Empire & the favorable policies of Casimir the Great & others.
This diaspora ramped up after the persecution during the Black Death of the 14th century. The bulk of the Ashkenazi Jews had migrated to the Kingdom of Poland (which includes modern-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, & parts of Russia). This area became the main center of Ashkenazi Jewry until the Holocaust.
Ashkenazim adapted their traditions, rites, & customs to Europe. They traditionally followed the German rite synagogue ritual & until the Holocaust primarily spoke Yiddish, an offshoot of Middle High German written in a variety of the Hebrew script, with significant Hebrew, Aramaic, & Slavic influences.
The Yiddish language progressively declined in prestige, in favor of national languages & Hebrew, being stigmatized by assimilationists & later also Zionists. Though it was spoken by over 11 million people worldwide before the Holocaust. The Yiddishist movement, which sought to preserve & revive the language, faded through the 20th century. Including Duolingo adding Yiddish as a language.
As a proportion of the world Jewish population, Ashkenazim were estimated to be 3% in the 11th century, rising to 92% in 1930, near the population’s peak. The Ashkenazi population was significantly diminished by the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany during WWII, which killed around 6 million Jews. Before WWII, the estimated worldwide Jewish population was 15.3-16.7 million, with 92% being Ashkenazi. As of 2023, the population of Ashkenazim was estimated to be around 10-13 million out of 15.8 million total Jews.
The name Ashkenazi comes from the biblical figure of Ashkenaz. He’s the 1st son of Gomer, grandson of Japhet, great-grandson of Noah, & a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations. The name for Gomer has often been linked to the Cimmerians.
The Biblical Ashkenazis are usually derived from Assyrian Askuza, a people who expelled the Cimmerians from the Armenian area of the Upper Euphrates. The name Askuza is identified with the Scythians.
In Jeremiah 51:27, Ashkenaz figures as 1 of 3 kingdoms in the far north, the others being Minni (or Mannaea), an ancient kingdom that flourished in northwestern Iran, & Arrat (corresponding to Urartu), called on by God to resist Babylon.
Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia (usually identified with Scandinavia), viewed as the cradle of Germanic tribes, in the 6th-century gloss to the Historia Ecclesiastica of Eusebius. In the 10th century, in the History of Armenia of Yovhannes Drasxanakertci, Ashkenaz was associated with Armenia.
As it was occasionally in Jewish usage, where its denotation extended at times to Adiabene, Khazaria, Chimea, & areas to the east. They’re also identified with the Slavim or Slavs. In keeping with the custom of designating areas of Jewish settlement with biblical names, Spain was called Sefarad (Obadiah 20), France was called Tsarefat (I Kings 17:9), & Bohemia was called the Land of Canaan.
Given the close links between the Jewish communities of France & Germany following the Carolingian unification, the term Ashkenazi came to refer to the Jews of both medieval Germany & France.
In later times, the word Ashkenaz is used to designate southern & western Germany, the ritual of which sections differs somewhat from that of eastern Germany & Poland. Thus, the prayer book of Isaiah Horowitz (a prominent rabbi & mystic), & many others, give the piyyutim (a Jewish liturgical poem), according to the Minhag of Ashkenaz & Poland. A Minhag is an accepted tradition or group of traditions in Judaism.
In a religious sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is any Jew whose family tradition & synagogue ritual follow Ashkenazi practices (German rite). Until the Ashkenazi community 1st began to develop in the Early Middle Ages, the centers of Jewish religious authority were in the Islamic world, at Baghdad & Islamic Spain. German Ashkenaz was so geographically distant that it developed a minhag of its own.
The counterpart of Ashkenazi is Sephardic. Since most non-Ashkenazi Orthodox Jews follow Sephardic rabbinical authorities, whether or not they’re ethnically Sephardic. By tradition, a Sephardic or Mizrahi (a.k.a. Oriental Jews; Jews who lived in the Muslim world) who married into an Orthodox or Haredi (a.k.a. ultra-Orthodox) Ashkenazi Jewish family raises her kids to be Ashkenazi Jews.
On the other hand, an Ashkenazi woman who married a Sephardi or Mizrahi is expected to take on Sephardic practices & the kids will “inherit” a Sephardic identity. Though in practice, many families do compromise. A “convert” usually follows the practice of the rabbinical court (beth din) that converted them.
Culturally, an Ashkenazi Jew can be identified by the concept of Yiddishkeit, which means “Jewishness” in the Yiddish language. Before the Haskalah (a.k.a. the Jewish Enlightenment) & the emancipation of Jews in Europe, this meant the study of the Torah & the Talmud for men, & communal life governed by the observance of Jewish Law for men & women.
From the Rhineland to Riga (the largest city in Latvia) to Romania, most Jews prayed in liturgical Ashkenazi Hebrew, & spoke Yiddish in their secular (worldly) lives. But with modernization, Yiddishkeit now includes not just Orthodoxy & Hasidism, but a broader range of movements, ideologies, practices, & traditions in which Ashkenazi have participated & somehow kept a sense of Jewishness. Although pockets of Jews still speak Yiddish, Yiddishkeit can be identified in manners of speech, styles of humor, & in patterns of association.
As Ashkenazi Jews moved away from Europe, mostly in the form of aliyah to Israel. Or immigration to North America, South Africa, Europe (particularly France), & Latin America, the geographic isolation has given way to mixing with other cultures, & with non-Ashkenazi Jews who, similarly, are no longer isolated in distinct geographic locales.
Hebrew has replaced Yiddish as the primary Jewish language for many Ashkenazi Jews. Although many Hasidic & Hareidi groups still use Yiddish in daily life. Aliyah is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographic Land of Israel or the Palestine region, where the State of Israel was established.
France’s blended Jewish community is typical of the cultural recombination that’s going on among Jews throughout the world. Although France expelled its original Jewish population in the Middle Ages, by the time of the French Revolution, there were 2 distinct Jewish populations.
One consisted of Sephardic Jews, originally refugees from the Inquisition (which no one expects! Sorry, we’re Monty Python fans here.) & concentrated in the southwest. While the other community was Ashkenazi, concentrated in formerly German Alsace, & mainly speaking a German dialect similar to Yiddish.
The 3rd community of Provencal Jews living in Comtat Venaissin was technically outside France, & was later absorbed into the Sephardim. Comtat Venaissin (called Comtat, for short) was a part of the Papal States from 1274 to 1791.
But after emancipation, a sense of a unified French Jewry emerged, especially when France was wracked by the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890s. (We’ll be doing a post about the Dreyfus Affair.) In the 1920s & 30s, Ashkenazi Jews from Europe arrived in large numbers as refugees from antisemitism, the Russian Revolution, & the economic turmoil of the Great Depression.
By the 1930s, Paris had a vibrant Yiddish culture, & many Jews were involved in diverse political movements. After the Vichy years & the Holocaust, the French Jewish population was augmented once again, 1st by Ashkenazi refugees from Central Europe, & later by Sephardi immigrants & refugees from North Africa, many of them francophone. Francophone refers to people/organizations who use French (language) regularly.
Ashkenazi Jews didn’t transmit their traditions or achievements by text. Instead, these traditions were passed down orally from one generation to the next. The desire to maintain pre-Holocaust traditions relating to Ashkenazi culture has often been met with criticism by Jews in Eastern Europe.
In an ethnic sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is a descendant of the Jews who settled in the Central European region of “Ashkenaz.” For roughly 1,000 years, the Ashkenazim were a reproductively isolated population in Europe.
Despite living in many countries, with little inflow or outflow of countries from migration, conversion, or intermarriage with other groups, including other Jews. Since the mid-20th century, many Ashkenazi Jews have intermarried, both with members of other Jewish communities & non-Jews.
Religious persecution of the Jews in Western & Central Europe led to a significant migration of the Ashkenazi Jews into Eastern Europe. This resulted in a major cultural divide between Western/Central & Eastern Ashkenazi communities. In particular, this was reflected in the division of Yiddish into Western & Eastern Yiddish dialects. As well as in other cultural distinctions: traditions, food, dress, etc.
Initially, the Jews of Eastern Europe enjoyed relative freedom in terms of movement, being invited by the kings of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Over time, the situation was reversed. By the 19th century, the Jews in the West had gradually been integrated into the general society.
While the Eastern Ashkenazi maintained their strict Jewish traditions & were mostly confined to ghettos, especially in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire, which incorporated a considerable amount of land where the Eastern Ashkenazi lived: Poland & Lithuania.
Well-known differences in practices include:
- Observance of Passover (Pesach)
- Ashkenazi Jews traditionally refrain from eating legumes, grain, millet, & rice. Quinoa has become accepted as a food grain in North American communities. Sephardi Jews typically don’t prohibit these foods.
- Notwithstanding stricter requirements for the ACTUAL slaughter, Sephardi Jews permit the rear portions of an animal after proper Halakhic removal of the sciatic nerve. While many Ashkenazi Jews don’t.
- Ashkenazi Jews often name newborns after deceased family members, not after living relatives. Sephardi Jews often name their kids after their grandparents, even if those grandparents are still living. An exception to this is among Dutch Jews, where Ashkenazi for centuries used naming conventions otherwise attributed exclusively to Sephardim, such as Chuts. Chuts is the name given to Jews who immigrated to London from the Netherlands in the 1850s-1860s.
- Ashkenazi tefillins are wound toward the body, not away from it. Ashkenazim put on the tefillin while standing up. Other Jews generally do so while sitting down. A tefillin(s) is/are sets of small black leather boxes with leather straps having scrolls of parchment written with verses of the Torah inside.
- The prayer shawl (tallit/tallis) is worn by all Ashkenazi men AFTER marriage. Except for Western European Ashkenazi men who wear it from the bar mitzvah. In Sephardi or Mizrahi Judaism, the prayer shawl is commonly worn from early childhood.
The term Ashkenazi also refers to the Nusach Ashkenaz, the liturgical tradition used by Ashkenazi Jews in their siddur (prayer book). A nusach is defined by a liturgical tradition’s choice of prayers, the text of prayers & melodies used in the singing of prayers. 2 other major forms of nusach among Ashkenazi Jews are Nusach Sefard (not to be confused with the Sephardic ritual), which is the general Polish Hasidic nusach, and Nusach Ari, used by those in Chabad.
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BUtterfield 8 -- John O'Hara
Although there has been small revival of interest in John O'Hara in recent years, as can be seen by the 2019 appearance of a Library of America edition of four of his novels, he is never going to regain the attention he enjoyed in the thirties, when he was a regular in the "New Yorker" and both the 1934 "Appointment in Samarra" and the 1935 "BUtterfield 8" were best sellers.
Amongst the many reasons for this decline is his stylistic weakness compared to his now more highly esteemed contemporaries; his prose cannot match the lyricism of Fitzgerald, the allusive brevity of Hemingway, or the distinctive modernist idioms of Faulkner or Dos Passos.
Nevertheless, his ability to create convincing dialogue is one of the strengths of "BUtterfield 8" and his acute ear is of a piece with the other observational powers at work is this novel of New York in the early years of the Depression. O'Hara had a sharp eye for the markers of social class and status, racial and ethnic prejudice, and the power of alcohol with Prohibition still in force. Notably, an unprurient candor about sex might surprise the reader of today and probably accounted at least in part for strong sales in the past.
The novel, revealing as it is about the Depression and the cafe society component of the metropolitan middle classes, is more than a document in social history. At its heart is the search of its young protagonist Gloria Wandrous for both love and freedom and her uncertainty about what these might be. This search and uncertainty are shown at work in her adulterous and abusive relationship with the older businessman Weston Liggett and the unconsumated yet deeper romance with commercial artist Eddie Brunner. She never finds what she is looking for, and these unresolved tensions are perhaps mirrored in the novel's conclusion, which has struck many critics as clumsily unsatisfying.
Although I recognize the literary weakness of the abrupt ending of the narrative, I found myself impressed by "BUtterfield *" both in regard to its social observation and psychological insight. I would recommend it to readers with an interest in the twenties and thirties and to those who would like to understand better how the rapidly changing role of women was portrayed at that time.
Many years ago I enjoyed "Appointment in Samarra". Now that I've read "BUtterfield 8", I'm going to give some of his short stories, his 1938 "Hope of Heaven", and 1940 "Pal Joey" a try.
#Books #BUtterfield8 #JohnOHara #Fiction #Novels #Realism #AmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #1930s
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BUtterfield 8 -- John O'Hara
Although there has been small revival of interest in John O'Hara in recent years, as can be seen by the 2019 appearance of a Library of America edition of four of his novels, he is never going to regain the attention he enjoyed in the thirties, when he was a regular in the "New Yorker" and both the 1934 "Appointment in Samarra" and the 1935 "BUtterfield 8" were best sellers.
Amongst the many reasons for this decline is his stylistic weakness compared to his now more highly esteemed contemporaries; his prose cannot match the lyricism of Fitzgerald, the allusive brevity of Hemingway, or the distinctive modernist idioms of Faulkner or Dos Passos.
Nevertheless, his ability to create convincing dialogue is one of the strengths of "BUtterfield 8" and his acute ear is of a piece with the other observational powers at work is this novel of New York in the early years of the Depression. O'Hara had a sharp eye for the markers of social class and status, racial and ethnic prejudice, and the power of alcohol with Prohibition still in force. Notably, an unprurient candor about sex might surprise the reader of today and probably accounted at least in part for strong sales in the past.
The novel, revealing as it is about the Depression and the cafe society component of the metropolitan middle classes, is more than a document in social history. At its heart is the search of its young protagonist Gloria Wandrous for both love and freedom and her uncertainty about what these might be. This search and uncertainty are shown at work in her adulterous and abusive relationship with the older businessman Weston Liggett and the unconsumated yet deeper romance with commercial artist Eddie Brunner. She never finds what she is looking for, and these unresolved tensions are perhaps mirrored in the novel's conclusion, which has struck many critics as clumsily unsatisfying.
Although I recognize the literary weakness of the abrupt ending of the narrative, I found myself impressed by "BUtterfield *" both in regard to its social observation and psychological insight. I would recommend it to readers with an interest in the twenties and thirties and to those who would like to understand better how the rapidly changing role of women was portrayed at that time.
Many years ago I enjoyed "Appointment in Samarra". Now that I've read "BUtterfield 8", I'm going to give some of his short stories, his 1938 "Hope of Heaven", and 1940 "Pal Joey" a try.
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Anthony Powell -- Afternoon Men
One might think of Anthony Powell as a quintessentially British novelist, so the importance of the USA in his first novel, the 1931 "Afternoon Men", might come as a surprise.
The USA makes itself felt both in the novel's content and in its style. The publisher Scheigan is the stereotyped American abroad, while the USA itself is mentioned continually throughout the novel as a place where people can go to either make or hunt fortunes. Making up the bulk of the text, the clipped dialogue of the novel seems indebted both to Hemingway and the new American popular culture form, the talkie.
I also noted Powell's depiction of Jews in the novel. Although "Afternoon Men" does not promote antisemitism as a central theme, a current of unfriendly suspicion is nevertheless detectable.
Although the novel was published in 1931, the social, romantic, and occupational misadventures of the mostly youthful characters smacks of the decade preceding the great depression. Comparing it to Waugh's "Decline and Fall" and "Vile Bodies", I found the comedy less broad but more perceptive about British society and individual ambition and romantic aspiration.
Decades have passed since I last read "A Dance to the Music of Time". I wonder how that cycle would strike me now that I am acquainted with Powell's 1931 novel of comedy and class.
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Anthony Powell -- Afternoon Men
One might think of Anthony Powell as a quintessentially British novelist, so the importance of the USA in his first novel, the 1931 "Afternoon Men", might come as a surprise.
The USA makes itself felt both in the novel's content and in its style. The publisher Scheigan is the stereotyped American abroad, while the USA itself is mentioned continually throughout the novel as a place where people can go to either make or hunt fortunes. Making up the bulk of the text, the clipped dialogue of the novel seems indebted both to Hemingway and the new American popular culture form, the talkie.
I also noted Powell's depiction of Jews in the novel. Although "Afternoon Men" does not promote antisemitism as a central theme, a current of unfriendly suspicion is nevertheless detectable.
Although the novel was published in 1931, the social, romantic, and occupational misadventures of the mostly youthful characters smacks of the decade preceding the great depression. Comparing it to Waugh's "Decline and Fall" and "Vile Bodies", I found the comedy less broad but more perceptive about British society and individual ambition and romantic aspiration.
Decades have passed since I last read "A Dance to the Music of Time". I wonder how that cycle would strike me now that I am acquainted with Powell's 1931 novel of comedy and class.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33972802
I want to read Ambler's 1939 "The Mask of Dimitrios" not only as part of my contuing quest to make sense of the twenties and thirties but also because of its reputation as a first rate novel of espionage.
#Books #EricAmbler #TheMaskOfDimitrios #LiteratureInEnglish #BritishLiterature #Espionage #Thriller #1930s
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https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33972802
I want to read Ambler's 1939 "The Mask of Dimitrios" not only as part of my contuing quest to make sense of the twenties and thirties but also because of its reputation as a first rate novel of espionage.
#Books #EricAmbler #TheMaskOfDimitrios #LiteratureInEnglish #BritishLiterature #Espionage #Thriller #1930s
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https://tcupress.tcu.edu/9780875659695/
I'm very much looking forward to the reissue of this hard to find novel of 1940.
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https://tcupress.tcu.edu/9780875659695/
I'm very much looking forward to the reissue of this hard to find novel of 1940.
#Books #TheInheritors #Novel #Texas #AmericanLiterature #1930s #FortWorth #LiteratureInEnglish #PhilipAtlee #JamesYoungPhillips
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Natalie Paley in evening dress and three quarter length coat by Lucien Lelong -- Studio Dorvyne -- 1934
I love those giant fur sleeves.
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Natalie Paley in evening dress and three quarter length coat by Lucien Lelong -- Studio Dorvyne -- 1934
I love those giant fur sleeves.
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🧵 1/3
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh -- Franz Werfel
I read this 1933 novel a little while ago. It's a long, one might almost say sprawling, fiction of an Armenian community's 1915 resistance to the genocide enacted by the.Young Turks.
The narrative of a community under siege is gripping, but the novel also deals with complex themes of identity, community, and nationality. As one might expect from a German speaking Jew who grew up in the capital of the Czech lands of Austria-Hungary, Werfel's treatment of the themes of nationalism and cosmopolitanism are, thankfully, never simplistic.
Obviously , much of the book's significance rests on it being an early literary response to the Armenian genocide. I'm sure that a horrified desire to learn about this campaign of persecution, exile, and killing accounts for much of the success that this book achieved in the US market on its publication in 1934. A readiness to learn about a gruesome episode in the "war to end all wars" probably played a part too in boosting sales.
I would also hazard a guess that for many readers in the thirties, the novel's story of a community's survival, albeit at a terrible price, could be seen as a parallel for the survival by individuals,families, and cities of the unprecedented hardships and upheavals of the Great Depression. The success of "Gone With The Wind" comes to mind.
Another parallel that now seems eerily prescient is that of...
#Books #Fiction #Novels #FortyDaysOfMusaDagh #FranzWerfel #LiteratureInGerman #ArmenianGenocide #20thCenturyLiterature #1930s #GreatDepression
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🧵 1/3
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh -- Franz Werfel
I read this 1933 novel a little while ago. It's a long, one might almost say sprawling, fiction of an Armenian community's 1915 resistance to the genocide enacted by the.Young Turks.
The narrative of a community under siege is gripping, but the novel also deals with complex themes of identity, community, and nationality. As one might expect from a German speaking Jew who grew up in the capital of the Czech lands of Austria-Hungary, Werfel's treatment of the themes of nationalism and cosmopolitanism are, thankfully, never simplistic.
Obviously , much of the book's significance rests on it being an early literary response to the Armenian genocide. I'm sure that a horrified desire to learn about this campaign of persecution, exile, and killing accounts for much of the success that this book achieved in the US market on its publication in 1934. A readiness to learn about a gruesome episode in the "war to end all wars" probably played a part too in boosting sales.
I would also hazard a guess that for many readers in the thirties, the novel's story of a community's survival, albeit at a terrible price, could be seen as a parallel for the survival by individuals,families, and cities of the unprecedented hardships and upheavals of the Great Depression. The success of "Gone With The Wind" comes to mind.
Another parallel that now seems eerily prescient is that of...
#Books #Fiction #Novels #FortyDaysOfMusaDagh #FranzWerfel #LiteratureInGerman #ArmenianGenocide #20thCenturyLiterature #1930s #GreatDepression
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Kangaroo Jumps Rebound Shoes From the 1930s.
Kangaroo jumps (or rebound/jumping shoes, also called “moon shoes” or spring-heel shoes) from the 1930s era refer to early spring-loaded footwear toys or devices, precursors to modern rebound boots like Kangaroo Jumps.
https://www.vintag.es/2026/07/kangaroo-jumps-rebound-shoes.html #globalmuseum #shoes #footwear #Fashion #1930s -
July 20, 1931 and a City Woman Has A Strange Experience On City Streets at Vintage Edmonton:
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Horst P. Horst -- Still Life --1937
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