tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7595421762878644280.post3097792279323106036..comments2023-10-22T08:04:05.400-05:00Comments on Scorchin' Torah and Strange Thoughts: Lenny Bruce Would Not Understand Vanessa Hidary, and nor do I?Ravavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927095462705375633noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7595421762878644280.post-14476696485223615422009-05-05T18:53:00.000-05:002009-05-05T18:53:00.000-05:00You ask:
"When did being Jewish stop being cool? ...You ask:<br /><br />"When did being Jewish stop being cool? Hasn't she ever heard of Lenny Bruce's neologic musings on Jewish and Goyish?"<br /><br />I doubt she has even heard of Lenny Bruce.<br /><br />The 3 writers that you name -- Phillip Roth, Saul Bellow, and Bernard Malamud -- may help to explain this. The writings of these authors portray Jews as frequently neurotic, somewhat dysfunctional.<br /><br />The Jews in their novels were generally not cool. <br /><br />And while the authors themselves emphatically were viewed as cool, those authors were only so viewed by a small number of literat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7595421762878644280.post-8765742081887266562009-05-05T00:36:00.000-05:002009-05-05T00:36:00.000-05:00I agree there's something very disturbing about he...I agree there's something very disturbing about her performance, but I'm not quite sure what it is for me. The holocaust mention is definitely part of the issue. <br /><br />You might want to embed the video in your post so everyone knows what video you're referring to - just enter the 'embed' code from the grey box on the right here to do so:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubdGjzzJiVspizzafunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12977127733913571080noreply@blogger.com