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Jewish Actor Saul Rubinek Thinks of His Zayde Every Night Before Performing “Playing Shylock”

JL;DR SUMMARY Saul Rubinek, a son of Holocaust survivors, performs his play "Playing Shylock" at New York's Polonsky Shakespeare Center, where he explores Jewish identity and antisemitism. 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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YiddishHolocaust SurvivorsJewish IdentityJewish RepresentationTheaterFamily HistoryThe Merchant Of VeniceShylockSaul Rubinek

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New York, United States
"In Playing Shylock, now showing at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in New York, Saul Rubinek walks on stage every night."
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
"I grew up with Fridish French and Yiddish in a very violent Montreal, working-class, French-Canadian, antisemitic world."
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
"Then, my father got a better job and he moved 120 miles away from Montreal to Ottawa."

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