Transported to South Florida, I contend with racist bullies and kosher wine. A portal to an enchanted world opens, and I cavort through various promised lands with Mel Brooks and other 2,000-year-old men. We conclude with a drama entitled “Death in the Catskills.”

For episode notes and resources, and a comments thread where you can express your opinion about this episode, please visit noahdiamond.com/pintele.

The Pintele Haggadah is now available at noahdiamond.com/pintele. I hope you’ll consider buying a copy and incorporating it into your Passover tradition, or using it to start one.

Music heard in this episode includes “Hello, Schmendrik!” by Morris Goldstein, “Hava Nagila” and “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen” from Tikvah Records, “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen” by Emil Stern, “Florida, The Moon and You” by Carl Fenton’s Orchestra, and George Gershwin's “Rhapsody in Blue” performed by Jason Weinberger and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony. Also: "Hava Nagila Sly Violin" by Musical Production, “Broadway Bigwig” by Art and Robin Munson, “Me and My Mullet” by Felipe Adorno Vassao, “Brookline Chair Lift” by Steve Rice, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” recorded by Mike Fielding, “Back to the Forties” by Andrea Damiano, and other selections licensed from the Pond5 Media Collection.

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What follows the family to America at the end of Fiddler on the Roof? In this discussion of tradition, precariousness, and the mystical concept of the pintele yid, we consult such sacred texts as The Jazz Singer, Abie’s Irish Rose, and the work of the Marx Brothers.

For episode notes and resources, and a comments thread where you can express your opinion about this episode, please visit noahdiamond.com/pintele.

The Pintele Haggadah is now available at noahdiamond.com/pintele. I hope you’ll consider buying a copy and incorporating it into your Passover tradition, or using it to start one.

Music heard in this episode includes “Dos Pintele Yid” by Jacob Fuchs and the Jewish Theatre choir, “Blue Skies” by Sam Lanin’s Orchestra, “Mir fohren kein America” by Hymie Jacobson and Fanny Lubritsky, “Dos Pintele Yid” by Pepi Litman, “On the Road to Calais” by Al Jolson, “My Mother’s Eyes” by George Jessel, “Manhattan” by Harry Reser and the Night Club Orchestra and by Ruth Tester and Allan Gould, “My New York” by Dave Kaplan and His Happiness Orchestra, and “The Monkey Doodle Doo” by Busse’s Buzzards. Also: “Jewish Comedians” by Alon Marcus, “Sholom Aleichem Rhapsodies” by David-Ezra Okonsar, “Brookline Chair Lift” and “Hava Nagila” by Steve Rice, and other selections licensed from the Pond5 media collection.

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Come with me to Bloomfield, Connecticut in 1980-something, to attend a Passover seder at the home of my great aunt and uncle, Sarah and Joe Brody. Then, stay for some after-dinner perspective on the Exodus story, and thoughts on the future.

For episode notes and resources, and a comments thread where you can express your opinion about this episode, please visit noahdiamond.com/pintele.

The Pintele Haggadah is now available at noahdiamond.com/pintele. I hope you’ll consider buying a copy and incorporating it into your Passover tradition, or using it to start one.

Music heard in this episode includes “Dayenu” by Cantor David Putterman, “Da-Ye-Nu” by the Burton Sisters, “Kiddush” by Cantor Edgar Mills and the Oheb Shalom Quartet, “Ma Nishtana” by the Orquesta de Camara and the Zimra Quartet, “Longing For Home” by the International Concert Orchestra, and “Mazel Tov” by Emil Stern. Also: “Brookline Chair Lift” by Steve Rice, “Jewish Comedians” by Alon Marcus, “Shalom Aleichem Rhapsodies” by David-Ezra Okonsar, “Lament for Jerusalem” by David Hollandsworth, “Go Down Moses” by the Andy Warner Band, “Hava Nagila Sly Violin” by Musical Production, and other selections licensed from the Pond5 media collection.

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