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This Jewish Punk Band Existed to Spite Neo-Nazis

What’s a Jewish punk fan to do about all that skinhead punk out there? Some choose to ignore it, while others choose mockery instead. Take the spoof band Jewdriver, whose guiding motivation was to make fun of Skrewdriver, the 1970s British neo-Nazi punk band. According to a tongue-in-cheek bio written in German on the band’s Facebook […]

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This Jewish Punk Heroine Died Tragically Young

The early ‘80s were an exciting time in New York’s music scene, and a young Jewish woman stood at the center of it all. Ruth Polsky was a prominent club promoter on the vanguard of the coolest new post-punk and New Wave music, introducing America to legendary bands like The Smiths and New Order at some […]

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Oy Oy Oy Gevalt! A New Book All About the Jews of Punk

The cover of Oy Oy Oy Gevalt! Jews and Punk (Praeger, 2016), Michael Croland’s new nonfiction history of Jews in punk culture, depicts a bearded Hasid with his eyes squeezed shut and his mouth thrown open in a deep-throated scream. After digging through articles, defunct websites, and old cassette tapes, Croland compiled this absorbing ethnography […]

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