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	<title>Stumbling Into Jews</title>
	<link>http://stumblingintojews.com</link>
	<description>the blog of Mark Cohen</description>
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		<title>The Basement Tapes &#8212; Allan Sherman version</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Half-century old reel-to-reel tapes stored in an East Coast basement recently surfaced, and they held three lost Allan Sherman parodies. I was tempted to say they are legendary, but they are too obscure for that. Nobody knew of them, and so no legends could be promulgated.
Two of the songs parody tunes from Porgy and Bess. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stumblingintojews.com/the-basement-tapes-allan-sherman-version/</link>
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		<title>Sephardic history, Sephardic Voices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My review of Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora. The title is an intimidating mouthful, but the voices of 16th century Sephardim, found in Inquisition records and rabbinical responsa (legal opinions and rulings), are fresh and alive.
“I thought that Jesus Christ was the same person as Moses, son of Queen Esther,” one woman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stumblingintojews.com/sephardic-history-sephardic-voices/</link>
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		<title>Saul Bellow&#8217;s Letters draws another rave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got a kick just now from a review on NPR of Saul Bellow Letters, by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. She quoted one of my favorite lines from the book,
&#8220;and then a nice police dog chained to a parking meter, wearing a cast on his broken leg and barking. He may have been asking to see the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stumblingintojews.com/saul-bellows-letters-draws-another-rave/</link>
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		<title>On Sitting Down To Read The New York Review of Books Once Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[O golden-tongued Know-It-Alls of serene learning!
Fair plumed Applebaum! Queen of baleful histories!
Breathe deep-thinking on my reveries,
Speak up Daniel Mendelsohn, it&#8217;s page turning:
Table for two! for once again the fierce communing,
Between Brooklyn and Manhattan
Must I wade through; once more tattlin&#8217;
On myself and my television tuning.
Chief Editor! and ye titans of sitzfleish,
Begetters of my unleaped eternal dream,
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stumblingintojews.com/on-sitting-down-to-read-the-new-york-review-of-books-once-again/</link>
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		<title>Letters of Saul Bellow are great</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Letters by Saul Bellow is a new book &#8212; and also probably the last new book &#8212; from Saul Bellow (unless someone issues the Bellow laundry lists, per the Woody Allen parody).
Read about it here.
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		<link>http://stumblingintojews.com/letters-of-saul-bellow-are-great/</link>
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		<title>Allan Sherman gets a nod from the Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Which made this article about him in the Forward even more timely than when I first thought of it.
Thanks, guys.
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		<link>http://stumblingintojews.com/allan-sherman-gets-a-nod-from-the-times/</link>
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		<title>Choice decides Missing a Beat is choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Choice says it is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education.
I sure hope so, because Choice likes Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim. Calls it &#8220;an excellent resource for anyone interested in journalism or in cultural or American studies.&#8221;
Plus,
&#8220;The volume [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stumblingintojews.com/choice-decides-missing-a-beat-is-choice/</link>
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		<title>Two moods: rants, or regrets about earlier rants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s how I put it in this podcast interview about Seymour Krim with Dan Friedman at the Forward newspaper.
And we talk about Krim from a Jewish angle, naturally.
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		<link>http://stumblingintojews.com/rants-or-regrets-about-earlier-rants/</link>
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		<title>Unedited thoughts on Seymour Krim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fans of Seymour Krim show up here and there, and writer and editor Ezra Glinter showed up at Zeek. He interviewed me about my new Krim collection, Missing a Beat, and I talked and talked.
Here it is.
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		<link>http://stumblingintojews.com/unedited-thoughts-on-seymour-krim/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;To find a shoe has always been my dream.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, what a sweetie.  We need a million more like her.
&#8220;To find a shoe has always been my dream,&#8221; is what Armenian doctoral student, Diana Zardaryan, told a New York Times reporter about her discovery of a 5,500-year-old leather shoe during a dig in Armenia.
How many people have their own individual dreams like Zardaryan? Too few. [...]]]></description>
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