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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

Punk rock

Trupa Trupa (Courtesy)
January 23, 2020, 4:13 am
Polish post-punk band rages against populism, hatred, and Holocaust denial
Trupa Trupa vocalist and songwriter Grzegorz Kwiatkowski — shaped by his ancestors’ imprisonment at Stutthof concentration camp — speaks truth to power through punk poetry
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Bram Presser, former leader of the band Yidcore, won an award from the Jewish Book Council for his debut novel. (Courtesy of Presser/via JTA)
April 12, 2019, 8:47 am
Why only a Jewish punk rocker could write this lyrical novel on the Holocaust
‘The Book of Dirt,’ a thoughtful examination of his family’s tortured past wins new author Bram Presser the Jewish Book Council’s Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction
By Curt Schleier
Ben Stiller poses for photographers upon arrival at the February 4, 2016 premiere of the film 'Zoolander No.2,' in London. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
July 14, 2018, 2:51 am
Ben Stiller’s teenage punk band to reissue debut album
Actor played drums in Capital Punishment, whose 1982 record ‘Roadkill’ will be rereleased in September
By Gabe Friedman
Moshiach Oi, a Jewish punk band. (YouTube screenshot)
October 2, 2017, 5:45 am
Punk Jews scream out to God ‘from the depths’
Since the 1980s, an iconoclastic subculture has existed on New York’s Lower East Side in parallel with the gritty rock scene — but this one has a higher spiritual calling
By Madison Margolin
Bram Presser of the band Yidcore blowing a shofar at a Judaica store in Melbourne, Australia. (Peter Haskin/via JTA)
September 12, 2017, 3:00 am
Punk bands prove shofar isn’t just for the High Holidays
Groups make mayhem while honoring the musical horn’s traditional uses, including excommunication ceremonies and danger warning
By Michael Croland
Danny Fields, center, without black jacket, with the members of the Ramones. (Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures/via JTA)
October 9, 2016, 12:14 am
How a Jewish guy from Queens made the punk scene happen
Few have heard of Danny Fields — ‘the Zelig of punk’ — but he discovered Iggy Pop, the Stooges, and the Ramones
By Gabe Friedman
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