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But some devoted Yiddish speakers have championed the language as embodying the essence of Jewish culture and a defining feature of a Jewish national identity
who were highly popular with Yiddish audiences at the end of the nineteenth century
despite the fact that he wrote in Yiddish
over the fifty-year period of its development
New York Noise: Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown Scene by Tamar Barzel eBook toasted-nut-studded grain saladsCoined in 1992 by composer saxophonist John Zorn, "Radical Jewish Culture," or RJC, became the banner under which many artists in Zorn's circle performed, produced, and circulated their music. New York's downtown music scene, part of the once grungy Lower East Side, has long been the site of cultural innovation. It is within this environment that Zorn and his circle sought to combine, as a form of social and cultural critique, the unconventional,