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19 November 2009

Shtetl shport

WARSAW SWIMMERS

Jewish guys are not wimps — never have been.

This according to shtetl shpecialist Yale Strom, a San Diego-based documentary filmmaker/photographer, leading ethnographer of klezmer music, and an unbelievably talented klezmer violinist who has taken more than sixty cultural research trips to preserve central European yiddishkeit.

In a talk at the Yiddish Cultural Institute, [...]