a warm hug

"The neverending struggle that is life in New York City gives us a warm hug.

"'Hey Sistah, get the lead out, willya!'

"'I am not your sister and I carry no lead.'"

~~ from The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt by Ken Krimstein

The New World 1941

"Some New World! Martha and Blucher and I land in a fourth-floor walkup in a two-room flat in a West 95th Street rooming house. Down on the streets every variety of German, Yiddish, Slavic, and Greek fills the sooty air."

~~ from The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt by Ken Krimstein

The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt by Ken Krimstein

 

Fifteen Beautiful Rare Bibles

The article includes Marc Chagall, and in the comments, there's a mention of Salvador Dali.

3/29/1985: on Yom Kippur with Isaac Rosenfeld and Marc Chagall

"Thinking about [Marc] Chagall in [New York] during the [second world] war, when he once met up with Isaac Rosenfeld and me on Yom Kippur, 57th Street. I feel a comradely twinge toward a fellow Jew when I remember his speaking Yiddish to us and admitting that though he could not get himself to work on the High High Holy Day, he was sauntering on to Pierre Matisse's gallery for a look (no doubt at his own work). Chagall and Vitebsk did summon up that feeling about Jewishness being a kind of sealed treasure, so deep within oneself. . . And what is it? In my case, the sense of all those others who have gone the long, long road. Solidarity. . . especially with those who so silently died at the hands of one power mad group or another."

~~ from Alfred Kazin's Journals, Selected and Edited by Richard M. Cook