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Edward Portnoy, Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University • Thursday, March 18 7:30 - 9:00 P
Although New York’s Lower East Side was known as a poor Jewish immigrant neighborhood and the heart of a sweatshop industry, it was also the center of a great Yiddish culture. Led by the Yiddish press and Yiddish theater, Jewish culture spilled out of the Lower East Side into all kinds of different cultural products from Vaudeville to popular music to film and radio. While Jewish immigrants became involved in popular culture in Yiddish, their children did the same in English, although often infusing their work with a distinctly Jewish flavor. Edward Portnoy teaches Yiddish language and literature at Rutgers University. He writes on Jewish popular culture.
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