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<\/a><\/p>\nYiddishe Cup<\/strong><\/span> calls its act \u201cneo-Borscht Belt klezmer comedy.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s been done before —\u00a0 the Borscht Belt schtick. \u00a0 For starters, about 60 years ago.<\/p>\n Yiddishe Cup can fill a golden age center in Miami. Then what?\u00a0 Take it on the road to the Bronx Hebrew Home for the Aged. Then return to Miami and stay there.\u00a0 And don\u2019t forget your<\/em> meds, guys.\u00a0 You’re not getting any younger.<\/p>\n Has Yiddishe<\/strong><\/span> Cup ever toured for weeks, developing a solid groove, establishing decent ensemble chops?<\/p>\n No.<\/p>\n On weekends the band collects inflatable guitars at bar mitzvahs, eats baked salmon, and watches “reflections” videos.<\/p>\n Does Yiddishe Cup research old Yiddish tunes at YIVO?\u00a0 Does anybody in Yiddishe Cup know where YIVO is?\u00a0 [New York.]\u00a0 Or what YIVO means?\u00a0 Does anybody? [Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut.]<\/p>\n One more<\/strong><\/span> thing: dynamics<\/em>. Ever heard that word, Yiddishe Cup?<\/p>\n —–<\/p>\n \u00a0Klez bandleaders, please submit your recordings for review here.\u00a0 You have nothing to gain.<\/small> — This post is a rerun (from 4\/20\/11). No, I’m not running out of material. I just like this one. Happy Passover.<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n NOT A PASSOVER STORY<\/big><\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n Bialy’s Bagels<\/strong><\/span> in University Heights, Ohio, was my bagel supplier for years. I would go swimming; go to Bialy’s and buy 15 bagels; eat two; drive to my mother’s; give her three; and take the rest home. I was on a bagel diet. I thought eating sesame and poppy seed bagels was a smart weight-control maneuver.<\/p>\n My back-up bagel purveyor was Amster’s at Cedar Center. The counter woman there, Marilyn Weiss, volunteered for school levies, racial integration projects, and did a ton of schlep work at my shul<\/em>. Amster’s was all about Marilyn’s personality. Unfortunately she died in 2000, and the place closed a few years later.<\/p>\n I also went<\/strong><\/span> to Better — as in “Better Bagel” — on Taylor Road. The owners were New Yorkers who wore <\/em>yarmulkes and Brooklyn Dodgers shirts. I figured they knew bagels.<\/p>\n They didn’t. Their bagels were too doughy and not crispy enough on the outside. Better Bagel eventually changed its name to Brooklyn Bagel.<\/p>\n No better.<\/p>\n Go to<\/strong><\/span> Bialy’s. If Bialy’s ever closes, we’re in bagel trouble in Cleveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yiddishe Cup calls its act \u201cneo-Borscht Belt klezmer comedy.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s been done before —\u00a0 the Borscht Belt schtick. \u00a0 For starters, about 60 years ago. Yiddishe Cup can fill a golden age center in Miami. Then what?\u00a0 Take it on the road to the Bronx Hebrew Home for the Aged. Then return to Miami and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13640"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14274,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13640\/revisions\/14274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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