tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post7135822864060267614..comments2024-01-21T02:58:08.208-05:00Comments on On the Main Line: A scene from the Semitic room in the New York Public Library, 1925Mississippi Fred MacDowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734864605700159687noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-76686000463558810052014-08-21T14:31:55.405-04:002014-08-21T14:31:55.405-04:00Where is this story taken from?Where is this story taken from?JOE_THE_PROFESSORnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-57937342666986381992014-08-21T05:57:09.894-04:002014-08-21T05:57:09.894-04:00The first thing this scene suggests to me is Chaim...The first thing this scene suggests to me is Chaim Potok's Reuven Malter sneaking into the NYPL to augment his chasidic education in the 1940s.Shraginoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-19485320149070234962014-08-20T14:41:34.847-04:002014-08-20T14:41:34.847-04:00Nowadays, reading "Tevye der Milkhiger" ...Nowadays, reading "Tevye der Milkhiger" in the NYPL Judaica room would be considered a suitably scholarly activity, but it might be just as surprising to see a frummer Chasid reading it. Unfortunately, Sholem Aleykhem has lost his Yiddish popular audience. I'm reminded of Herman Wouk's observation, in The Caine Mutiny, that a taste for opera was considered highbrow among everyone except for Italian Americans, for whom it was popular entertainment.Dan Kleinnoreply@blogger.com