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What happens to Borscht Belt comedians when they get old? That melancholy question is the subject of the 1992 comedy film Mr. Saturday Night. Starring Billy Crystal (it was also his directorial debut) as Buddy Young, an aged Jewish comic who’s struggling to find work, the film flashes back to events throughout his life, growing up in New York during […]

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Sholem Aleichem was one of the first authors to write in Yiddish–a language that’s been around for hundreds of years, but has only had a body of literature for 150 years or so. Before Sholem Aleichem, Yiddish was thought to be a low, plebian language, used in daily conversation but never in serious literature. The new documentary Sholem Aleichem: […]

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Starting in 1975, Debbie Peagler was prostituted, controlled, and repeatedly beaten by Oliver Wilson. Eight years later, she finally managed to escape from him, by convincing two gang members to kill him. In 1984, nine-year-old Joshua Safran witnessed his mother horribly beaten by her husband. Eighteen years later, in 2002, Safran– an Orthodox Jew and a lawyer–agrees to represent Peagler. […]

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