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The Sixties and Jewish Celebrity

Historian David Kaufman’s new book, Jewhooing the Sixties, explores how Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Sandy Koufax and Lenny Bruce forged a new style of Jewish fame that reflected and helped reshape American popular culture. The author in conversation with AJHS Executive Director, Jonathan Karp.

From INSIDE NEW YORK – Frozen yogurt (colloquially called “froyo”) is quickly becoming akin to coffee through the prominence it occupies in the diets of urban dwellers, especially in summer months. Unsurprisingly, competition between froyo brands is fierce to attain a status parallel to the one Starbucks holds for coffee. Several members of the Inside New York staff sampled a recent entrant into such competition — Flavaboom (600 Sixth Ave., 212-414-0100), which opened last May in Chelsea… Read the full review at Inside New York.










When: Wed., Feb. 13, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Where: American Jewish Historical Society
15 W. 16th St.
212-294-6160
Price: $5
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Historian David Kaufman’s new book, Jewhooing the Sixties, explores how Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Sandy Koufax and Lenny Bruce forged a new style of Jewish fame that reflected and helped reshape American popular culture. The author in conversation with AJHS Executive Director, Jonathan Karp.

From INSIDE NEW YORK – Frozen yogurt (colloquially called “froyo”) is quickly becoming akin to coffee through the prominence it occupies in the diets of urban dwellers, especially in summer months. Unsurprisingly, competition between froyo brands is fierce to attain a status parallel to the one Starbucks holds for coffee. Several members of the Inside New York staff sampled a recent entrant into such competition — Flavaboom (600 Sixth Ave., 212-414-0100), which opened last May in Chelsea… Read the full review at Inside New York.
Buy tickets/get more info now