http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/jewish-arts-and-their-audiences/ Connect. Educate. Innovate. Thu, 24 May 2012 14:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/jewish-arts-and-their-audiences/comment-page-1/#comment-48578 Bob Hyfler Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:19:06 +0000 http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/?p=5154#comment-48578 As is often the case Irwin Kula gets it right. Historically Jews have often reflected our uniqueness through active artistic and intellectual engagement with the world around us and examples are too numerous to list. In addition, as the Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah has observed,in today's cross polinated small world the modern individual, regardless of background, is most often a "rooted cosmopolitan", committed to universal engagment and change, albeit from the particular rootedness of culture, values and history. Again, we Jews, trendsetters that we often are, may have just been at it a bit longer than others (and have survived probably as result of the phenmenon not despite it). As is often the case Irwin Kula gets it right. Historically Jews have often reflected our uniqueness through active artistic and intellectual engagement with the world around us and examples are too numerous to list. In addition, as the Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah has observed,in today’s cross polinated small world the modern individual, regardless of background, is most often a “rooted cosmopolitan”, committed to universal engagment and change, albeit from the particular rootedness of culture, values and history. Again, we Jews, trendsetters that we often are, may have just been at it a bit longer than others (and have survived probably as result of the phenmenon not despite it).

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