Happy Hanukkah!

[AllenLowe]

of course, let us not forget, as long as we are talking about Hanukkah, about the ancient if somewhat obscure tradition of the rabbi's performance of the mouth harp, usually played as backing to a blues-like Cantorial aria - otherwise known as the Hanukkah Harmonica -

[AllenLowe]

originally developed, I should add, by the small Jewish settlement of Sri Lanka -

[AllenLowe]

pioneered, of course, on the old Ed Sullivan show by Corbett Monica -

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[AllenLowe]

made famous, of course, by Picasso's Guernica -

[AllenLowe]

and people wonder why jazz musicians haven't gotten any further than they have -

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[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Some people wonder. But on this board we know

MG

[Guy Berger]

Reading that book was enlightening, because while it certainly was a ripping yarn, full of shining heroes and dark villains and IIRC a downbeat ending that was true to the historical facts (the revolt eventually met with defeat when Rome weighed in),

Not strictly true (I am really just picking nits***) -- the revolt itself was successful in chasing the Syrian Greeks out (with occasional setbacks) and creating a Jewish kingdom in Judea. However, about a century later the rulers of that kingdom (descended from the Macabees) fell into bickering and when Pompey the Great brought Roman legions into the Levant he "settled the dispute" by sucking Judea into the Roman orbit.

Guy

***I am sure Larry's parenthetical comment was just intended as a summary of my paragraph.

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[Harold_Z]

Happy Hanukkah to all!!

[Larry Kart]

Reading that book was enlightening, because while it certainly was a ripping yarn, full of shining heroes and dark villains and IIRC a downbeat ending that was true to the historical facts (the revolt eventually met with defeat when Rome weighed in),

Not strictly true (I am really just picking nits***) -- the revolt itself was successful in chasing the Syrian Greeks out (with occasional setbacks) and creating a Jewish kingdom in Judea. However, about a century later the rulers of that kingdom (descended from the Macabees) fell into bickering and when Pompey the Great brought Roman legions into the Levant he "settled the dispute" by sucking Judea into the Roman orbit.

Guy

***I am sure Larry's parenthetical comment was just intended as a summary of my paragraph.

Thanks for the correction, Guy. Actually, I'd clean forgotten (but am pretty sure I once knew) that that much time elapsed between the revolt that overthrew the Syrian Greeks and the Roman takeover of Judea.

[B. Goren.]