When Sidney Lumet died in 2011, he had directed 14 films that were nominated for Academy Awards. Born in 1924, his parents were both veterans of the Yiddish language theater. Lumet himself would take to …
Linda Thao
Self-Help
The UW-Madison University Staff worker has many opportunities to improve their condition by accessing low-cost and no-cost resources here on campus. In order to educate the staff in this regard, the University Staff Communications Committee …
Irving Berlin – This Week’s Jewish American Profile in History
After his family fled the anti-Jewish pogroms of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, Irving Berlin was raised in a cold-water basement apartment on the lower east side of New York City. He would go from saloon …
The Battle is Joined
In 1920, in West Virginia, tensions were high between coal company operators and organizers of the United Mine Workers labor union. A number of incidents preceded the bloody gun battle of 19 May, including the …
May Congress Meeting
Congress assembled for their May meeting and among other business, passed their draft of the Hostile and Intimidating Behaviors Policy, heard a summary of the annual report from the Committee on Women in the University …
Billyball!
16 May marks the birthday of baseball legend Billy Martin in 1928 in Berkeley, California. Martin was raised in a poor family of Italian and Portuguese ancestry. Martin would often describe the toughness he had …
San Antonio Rose
13 May marks the day musician Bob Wills died in 1975. Wills fronted a band called, ‘The Texas Playboys’ that combined traditional hillbilly dance tunes with swing jazz music, developing a style called, ‘Western Swing’. …
Put Ons and Take Offs
12 May marks the day in 1937 on which George Carlin was born in New York to an Irish immigrant father and an Irish-American mother. He is widely viewed as one of America’s most influential …
Victory Day
9 May is recognized and celebrated as ‘Victory Day’, commemorating the day in which Nazi Germany was defeated by the Allied forces. The Badger State made a great contribution to the war effort… 332,200 Wisconsinites …
Barbara Streisand – This Week’s Jewish American Heritage Profile
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1942, her mother was a soprano singer and her father a high school teacher who was a highly respected educator with a focus on helping underprivileged and delinquent youth. …