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EST 1917

Lower East Side

  Zuni Maud and Yosl Cutler met almost a century ago, but their puppets are making sure their legacy continues. Maud and Cutler were both Jews who’d fled Eastern Europe for New York City and wound up as cartoonists at a satirical Yiddish political magazine in the 1920s. They shared a love of puppets and […]

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In the summer of 1930, a Viennese Jewish immigrant named Max Fleischer created an anthropomorphized poodle named Betty Boop. The pooch waited tables and sang in a cartoon called “Dizzy Dishes.” But Betty was destined for human greatness: Soon enough, Fleischer dropped her floppy dog ears, and added earrings and pin curls — and a […]

By the time Lola Ridge really got started, most women of her era might have given up: In 1907, as a 33-year-old divorcee, she left Australia, the land of her youth, for San Francisco and then New York’s Lower East Side, where the Jewish immigrants she lived among made their way into her work. Her […]

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