Comments on: Sheldon Harnick, lyricist for FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

By: joe dorinson

joe dorinson — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:53:37 +0000

With great humility and no sense of hubris, I blieieved for many years that I was a product of immaculate conception because I only saw my mother and father kissing each other once–: when they were drinking at some affair. So, Shelden Harnick’s insight struck a deep resonant chord. Their typical response to Tevye’s question in my parents generation–steeped in the Great Depression and European exile– was: “Love, shmove. Out of necessity, we got used to each other .” How sad; how true! Laughter and tears: azoi is gegagn dos leybn. Joe aka Yusl Dorinson

By: sheldon s. cohen

sheldon s. cohen — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:13:30 +0000

This poem hits the mark!!The real danger to Israel comes from self-hating Jews, and the folks
at Tikkum, New Israel Fund, and J Street. Despite their claims of good intentions, I regard them, in
religious terms, as, “saint seeming deceivers”. Their unspoken objective is to put Israel “on the course of ultimate extinction”. I regard such people as “Uncle Isaacs and “Aunt Sadies.” They also remind me of the folks in the late 1940s who long and loud hailed the
Soviet Union as really, “peace-loving” under the” benign” leadership of Joe Stalin whom they declared, really “loved” the Jews . We learned later that Uncle Joe was not so nice.
Sheldon S. Cohen

By: Michael Greengard

Michael Greengard — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:46:02 +0000

The Merry Middle Eastern Minuet (with apologies to Sheldon)

They’re rioting in Syria
There’s strife in Bahrain
There’s fighting in the Lebanon
Qadafi’s insane.

The Middle East is festering with unbalanced jerks.
The Arabs hate the Persians, the Greeks hate the Turks.
Egyptians hate Libyans, the Maronites hate the Druze.
On one thing they all agree – to hate the Jews.

But we can be thankful, and need have no fear.
Our leaders waste billions of dollars each year.
And thus, it may happen that some lovely day
Israel may be foreclosed, and we will have to move away.

They’re striking in the hospitals.
And I’ve got the blues.
What our enemies don’t do to us
Will be done by our fellow Jews.

By: jan descoteaux

jan descoteaux — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:49:52 +0000

my maiden name is harnick – my grandfather was makar and grandmother was eurine – just wondering if we are related as the harnick name is not exactly a common name – don’t exactly know what he means by mirroring his own life as a jew – i was lead to believe that my heritage was russian – don’t really expect you to answer but i had to ask…..

By: Terry Greenberg

Terry Greenberg — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:22:09 +0000

Is there a transcript available for someone who does not hear well?

By: Dr. Amy Eisenberg

Dr. Amy Eisenberg — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:56:22 +0000

Wonderful
Shabbat Shalom
Chazak chazak v’tit chazek
may you go from strength to strength