What used to be the great cafeteria and now the great Greek Hall at the Met on Sunday.
On a Tel Aviv bench, photo by Max Reider
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I weep easily, but this film in Hebrew is just hard to describe. Half a century in half an hour. Lodz, Frankfurt, Auschwitz, Arkhangelsk, Samarkand, Tel Aviv, Rego Park, Paris, Sinai. This film is a heartbreaking masterpiece.
The fatal story of a family discovered with detective precision based on the photos found in a garbage container in Tel Aviv. The film is strikingly minimalist, yet hauntingly beautiful. The dramatic suspense of the biblical fate punctuating one family, one of many. The unsettling proximity of the tragic century (the video is slow to load but well worth it, pay no attention to the commercials): Ynet – תעלומה במכולה הירוקה
Liz mixes up some vegetables from the Ibn Gvirol Shook in Tel Aviv and throws them into her pressure cooker for some winter hot half dozen servings.
Zucchero performs with Rafi Adar in the Roxane Club in Tel Aviv. Judging by Zucchero’s looks, this must be in the late 80s, the time he wrote his best songs. A very nice rendition. ►►►read more
Wow, unbelievable, I didn’t even imagine I would ever hear this. The musical range is phantasmagorical. It starts with Эх Люли Люли, a traditional song of Jews recruited to Russian Army under Nicholas I (песня кантонистов), learned from Michael Alpert. The musical style is Russian “chastushka” that on occasion found its way into the Jewish folk songs (i.e. Chabad version of ehod miyodea). And finish is the stunning poetic philosophical Rap by Psoy Korolenko (Псой Короленко). From The Unternationale album presentation, Tel Aviv, “Levontin 7″, 11/05/2008. The fusion of Klezmer, rap and Russian folk songs is simply amazing [need to know Russian].
There have been so much interest in the 1948 archive, so I decided to publish another installment. Pictures do speak better than words. The following are the photos taken by John Phillips, all in June of 1948.
The Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem after Jews left
The explosive вулкан. Phenomenal rap in Russian and Hebrew has deep roots going back to the outlaw Soviet and Russian music in general and specifically to the great Vladimir Vysotzky, thematically and in the hoarseness of Vulkan’s voice. The Brooklyn gangsta, meets Tel Aviv, meets Arbat. If there ever was a cultural cocktail, this is it. ►►►read more
I continue to research the vast collection of the photos from the LIFE Magazine archive. I sort the photos by a photographer or an event. In these three posts I curate the 1948 photos from Israel.
Jewish girl, Rachel Levy, 7, fleeing from street w. burning bldgs. as the Arabs sack Jerusalem after its surrender. May 28, 1948. John Phillips
LIFE Magazine photographer Frank Scherschel took a series photographs of Jews in Tunisia. (Part 1 is here.)
As look at these photos I am overwhelmed with the beauty of this tribe. Perhaps it’s an island thing, Djerba being an island. Like Manhattan the confines created a microcosm. By you can see that these people lived intensely relating to others and the power of this community still drives the descendants, decades later in the cosmopolitan Paris or Tel Aviv. This very quality of our existence that we crave so much in the unconnected world.
The project is collaboration between the photographer Yuri Gershberg and body artist Slava Adam to commemorate 6o years to the State of Israel [reprinted with permission]. Behold the Queen in the Apple Garden, the Thirteen Petalled Rose of redemption, the land of our salvation [interview with the authors in Russian by Maxim Reider].
This photo was taken in Tel Aviv a couple of years ago (note the orange ribbons on the horse at the time of the “disengagement” from Gaza). Maxim Reider is a trilingual journalist and photographer living in the city. Maxim told me that he had to react fast when the horse carriage, on it’s way to trash the car, was galloping through the street.
