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A chance meeting between Delia Ephron and Julianna Margulies begat a subtly Jewish Broadway play

JL;DR SUMMARY A serendipitous meeting between Delia Ephron, an author, and Julianna Margulies, an actress, both of Jewish upbringing, led to a Broadway adaptation of Ephron's memoir, "Left on Tenth." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityMemoirNew YorkBroadwayJulianna MarguliesLeukemiaBashertCultural JudaismDelia EphronLeft On Tenth

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Greenwich Village, New York, United States
"A few years ago, two well-known Jewish women serendipitously met walking their dogs in Greenwich Village and immediately connected."
Lower Manhattan, New York, United States
"Margulies, who currently serves on the board of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan, describes her own childhood in virtually the same way."

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