Green to Bluegrass

2021 ◽  
pp. 124-133
Author(s):  
Lily Isaacs
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Jewish Family ◽  
Pine Tree ◽  
Greenwich Village ◽  
South Lebanon

In 1949 Lily Isaacs came to New York from Germany with her Jewish family. She met Joe Isaacs when he played a Greenwich Village folk club with Frank Wakefield and the Greenbriar Boys. Married in 1970, they moved to South Lebanon, Ohio. Joe played with Larry Sparks. After Joe’s brother died in an accident, Lily converted to Christianity. She and Joe began singing gospel, and recorded with Hamilton’s Pine Tree Records and at Jordan Studios in Covington, traveled with children Ben, Becky and Sonya as Sacred Bluegrass, then moved to LaFollette, Tennessee. After Lily and Joe divorced, Lily and her children performed as the Isaacs, earned a 2016 Grammy nomination, and Lily published her 2014 autobiography, You Don't Cry Out Loud.

scholarly journals Out of balance? ‘Konesans’ and first world knowledges in Caribbean women’s studies

1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 297-304
Author(s):  
Bill Maurer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Food Poisoning ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Caribbean Women ◽  
Greenwich Village ◽  
Howard University ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
First World

[First paragraph]We Paid Our Dues: Women Trade Union Leaders of the Caribbean. A. LYNN BOLLES. Washington DC: Howard University Press, 1996. xxxviii + 250 pp. (Paper US$21.95)Gender: A Caribbean Multi-Disciplinary Perspective. ELSA LEO-RHYNIE, BARBARA BAILEY & CHRISTINE BARROW (eds.). Kingston: Ian Randle, 1997. xix + 358 pp. (Paper n.p.)Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century. CONSUELO LOPEZ SPRINGFIELD (ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. xxi + 316 pp. (Cloth US$ 35.00, Paper US$ 17.95)Two weeks before I began writing this review essay, I had the misfortune to contract food poisoning while visiting New York. I was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village where I found myself under the capable care of a team of West Indian nurses. At the time, I didn't give this much thought; I was simply happy to be getting good care far from home. The day before I was released, my right arm swelled up from the intravenous drip that had been delivering fluids and antibiotics into my body. It was first noticed by one of the Jamaican nurses, who told me that the IV had "infiltrated" my arm and that, as a result, my "fluids were out of balance," and this was keeping me from getting well. She promptly pointed this out to another nurse, who took out the IV and stuck another one into my left arm.

Nectria galligena. [Distribution map].

1985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Prince Edward Island ◽  
Faroe Islands ◽  
Malus Pumila ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Nectria Galligena ◽  
South Lebanon ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Nectria galligena Bresad. Hosts: apple (Malus pumila) and pear (Pyrus communis). Information is given on the geographical distribution in Africa, South Africa, Asia, Afghanistan, India, Himachal Pradesh, Indonesia, Java, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Korea (South), Lebanon, Syria, Taiwan, Australasia & Oceania, New Zealand, Europe, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Channel Islands, Northern Ireland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Faroe Islands, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Irish Republic, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Rumania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, USSR, Crimea, Estonia, Latvia, White Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, North America, Canada, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Mexico, USA, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Minnesota, South America, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay.

'I chose the values I regarded as American': sexuality, ethnicity, and FBI informant Angela Calomiris

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (20) ◽  
pp. 109-135
Author(s):  
Veronica A. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Later Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Red Scare ◽  
Federal Bureau Of Investigation ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Greenwich Village ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Second World

For personal or political reasons undocumented and controversial to this day, Greenwich Village lesbian photographer Angela Calomiris joined forces with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during the Second World War to infiltrate the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA). As Calomiris rose through CPUSA ranks in New York City, espionage efforts resulted in the Attorney General's office declaring the avant-garde Film and Photo League to be a subversive communist organisation in 1947, and the conviction of communist leaders during the Smith Act trial two years later. Interestingly, despite J. Edgar Hoover's indeterminate sexuality and well-documented harassment of gays and lesbians in public life, what mattered to him was not whether Calomiris adhered to heteronormativity, but that her ultimate sense of duty lay with the US government. This article demonstrates how this distinction helped Calomiris find personal satisfaction in defiance of patriarchal conservative expectations and heteronormative cold war gender roles. This article, which utilises FBI files, press coverage, some of Calomiris's papers and her memoir, concludes with a brief discussion of Calomiris's later life in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she continued to craft her identity as a left-liberal feminist, with no mention of the service to the FBI or her role in fomenting the second Red Scare.

From Greenberg to Rahv

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-64
Author(s):  
Doris Kadish
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Jewish Family ◽  
Bolshevik Revolution ◽  
Jewish Intellectuals ◽  
Partisan Review

This chapter traces Rahv’s story of immigration and explores his psychology as an immigrant. Reaching back to his time in Russia, it considers pogroms, the notorious trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis, the use of Yiddish and Russian language, and the Bolshevik revolution. It examines his dysfunctional Jewish family, which it relates to the families of other New York Jewish intellectuals. It explores the significance of his father’s beginnings as a peddler, his mother’s Zionism, and the time he spent in Palestine. Some light is shed on the mysteries surrounding his lack of formal education. Detailed analyses of two texts are provided: “Homeless but not Motherless, Variation on a theme by L. Kwitko” by the Ukranian poet Leib Kvitko, which Rahv translated from Yiddish; “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities,” Delmore Schwartz’s modernist tour de force which appeared in Partisan Review in 1937.

Tapeworm cysts in the brain: can we prevent it happening?

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Marshall Lightowlers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Taenia Solium ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Jewish Family ◽  
Domestic Worker ◽  
The Brain

Imagine the consternation; you are a member of an orthodox Jewish family and you and another family member are diagnosed with larvae of a pork tapeworm in your brain. You have recurrent seizures as a result. Ridiculous? Not for members of a Jewish community in New York where a Mexican domestic worker harbouring a Taenia solium tapeworm had apparently contaminated the family's food with eggs from her tapeworm1.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Goyens
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Historic Preservation ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
East Side ◽  
Greenwich Village ◽  
German American ◽  
Village Society

On May 30, 2012, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation dedicated a plaque to Justus H. Schwab, who died in 1900, at the site of his Liberty Hall saloon at 50 East 1st Street on the Lower East Side.1 Born in 1847, Schwab was a German American mason by trade and one of the first anarchists in New York. He opened his saloon in 1875 or 1876, and it quickly became a “headquarters for anarchists,” as the ...

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