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just blame them

Tolerated guests in their own land. Israel’s main problem is to come to grips with itself as a Jewish state. Until this arrives, here will always be a self-negating ideology at work, a presumed unworthiness, a form of auto-flagellation that … Continue reading

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don’t beat him he’s only the fiddler

Joshua Bell impersonating an itinerant playing violinist in Washington DC .Its a living. It was not an original idea in that this set-up had been enacted in New York and within other contexts as well. Bell played six Bach pieces … Continue reading

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the jazz swingers

African masks. The surrealists and the fetish for the African mask. The Man Ray photographs, the Demoiselles D’Avignon of Picasso in which cubsim collapsed the figurative. The African iconography and jazz was a metaphor for the exotic and a key … Continue reading

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