#may his memory be a blessing

[power-chords]

Defying boundaries of taste and time, Martin Greenfield made suits for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the gangster Meyer Lansky, Leonardo DiCaprio and LeBron James. Men skilled in the arts of power projection — along with fashion writers and designers — considered him the nation’s greatest men’s tailor.

For years, none of them knew the origins of his expertise: a beating in Auschwitz.

As a teenager, Mr. Greenfield was Maximilian Grünfeld, a skinny Jewish prisoner whose job was to wash the clothes of Nazi guards at the concentration camp. In the laundry room one day, he accidentally ripped the collar of a guard’s shirt. The man whipped Max in response, then hurled the garment back at the boy.

After a fellow prisoner taught Max how to sew, he mended the collar, but then decided to keep the shirt, sliding it under the striped shirt of his prison uniform.

The garment transformed his life. Other prisoners thought it signified that Max enjoyed special privileges. Guards allowed him to roam around the grounds of Auschwitz, and when he worked at a hospital kitchen, they assumed that he was authorized to take extra food.

Max ripped another guard’s uniform. This time, it was deliberate. He was creating a clandestine wardrobe that would help him survive the Holocaust.

“The day I first wore that shirt,” Mr. Greenfield wrote seven decades later, “was the day I learned clothes possess power.”

[…]

The culmination of his hopes and efforts was his business, Martin Greenfield Clothiers. It managed the improbable feat of thriving by doing the opposite of the rest of its industry.

Local garment manufacturing had been declining for decades by the late 1970s, when Mr. Greenfield set up shop in the East Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, in a four-story building that had housed clothiers since at least 1917. He refused to manufacture overseas and never changed his standards.

As a result, Greenfield Clothiers was able to offer services that New York’s designers and wealthy suit-wearers could hardly find anywhere else. It is now New York City’s last surviving union clothing factory, Tod Greenfield said in an interview for this obituary in March last year.

#may his memory be a blessing #martin greenfield #greenfield clothiers

[journeysendinlovers]

The fact that JSTOR was able to rebrand themselves on here as a friendly nonprofit after their contributions to the legal pressure murdered the ethnically jewish hacktivist that invented RSS at 26 years old with the assistance of MIT and the united states government should continue to infuriate us all forever. They are on this fucking app pretending to care about open access like they didn't help kill a man using the threat of federal prison for downloading papers.

#jstor #aaron swartz #he deserved a long life #may his memory be a blessing #i was 17 and I remember checking reddit when the news broke about the case #and then when he hung himself I was inconsolable

[unwelcome-ephestion]

We have lost a legend today in Chaim Topol, who immortalised Reb Tevye onscreen in Fiddler on the Roof. Zero Mostel originated the role on Broadway, but Norman Jewison was keen to hire someone who did not bring a pre existing persona to the role, and so the role went to Israeli actor Topol. He was a rogue choice - only 30, a role of a man supposed to have adult daughters, and with very little English, but Jewison's casting was inspired. Tevye would become the role of a lifetime for Topol - he would play him onstage more than 3,500 times.

During the famous If I Were a Rich Man scene, he later revealed that he was fighting a horrendous toothache, claiming that he sounded odd because of it. The scene took three days because of the pain. It's still a wonderful scene - take a look below.

L'chaim, sunrise, sunset. May his memory be a blessing.

#musical theatre history #musical theatre #topol #chaim topol #may his memory be a blessing #fiddler on the roof #rip topol #zero mostel #if i were a rich man #Youtube

[courtneysmovieblog]

RIP Richard Lewis, the funniest Prince John ever

#rip #may his memory be a blessing #robin hood men in tights

[gidaryeong]

And on top of all the horrors this year, it ends with the tragic news of Lee Sun-kyun's passing. What an immense loss, to Jeon Hye-jin and their children, and to the entire world.

#lee sun kyun #this fucking year y'all. #may his memory be a blessing

[beardedmrbean]

Belzer died at his home in Beaulieu-sur-Mer on February 19, 2023, at the age of 78, from complications of unspecified circulatory and respiratory conditions. According to his friend, novelist Bill Scheft, his last words were "Fuck you, motherfucker".

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#richard belzer #detective munch #law and order #the x files #homicide life on the street #may his memory be a blessing

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

Repost from @rafternoon

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Rest in power and may your name be for a blessing Aaron Bushnell. 😔

If you’re seeing Aaron Bushnell’s bravery and helplessness in the face of horror in Gaza & thinking you should follow, I hope you realize we need you here with us. We celebrate him but we are also deeply hurt and mourning. I wish we got to know him. To organize with him. And you.

I’ve seen generational impacts of one human organizing, I’ve seen things shift, lives saved, bonds built from just a person using their turmoil, empathy, bravery to join our movements. Aaron is a hero in my eyes but so is everyone on the streets, pushing at work, taking risks.

Life is precious and beautiful and powerful. And if you can choose it, if you’re not forced to end it for whatever valid reasons, I would really celebrate you sticking around. Every day. We need everybody.

#palestine #free palestine #aaron bushnell #rest in power #Gaza #gaza genocide #free gaza #us military #us air force #us politics #us foreign policy #Israel #israeli war crimes #genocide #may his memory be a blessing #human rights

[jandjsalmon]

Rest in Peace, Matthew. 💔 (28/10/2023)

#matthew perry #may his memory be a blessing

[thatjewishzionistscout]

An Indian national was recently killed in Israel by a Hezballoh rocket.

He noting to do with what Israel is doing in Gaza, he just wanted to provide for his family and killed for it.

He left behind a five year old daughter and a seven month pregnant wife.

Fuck terror.

#israel #israel palestine conflict #palestine #jewblr #free palestine #jewish #antisemitism #i stand with israel #may his memory be a blessing #hezbollah #fuck terrorism

[mariocki]

Chaim Topol (9.9.1935 - 9.3.2023)

"What kind of advice can I give [young performers]? Someone sent me a quote that persistence wins. I have to disagree with this. It is an important ingredient. I don't think that there are any rules. Be persistent, be talented, work hard, but ninety-five percent is luck - so be lucky!"

#topol #chaim topol #haym topol #may his memory be a blessing #death ment tw #icons #fiddler on the roof #tevye #flash gordon #follow me #for your eyes only #galileo #american film theater #the house on garibaldi street #the winds of war #tales of the unexpected #war and remembrance #cast a giant shadow #is there a musical theatre lead more closely identified with a single performer than Tevye? i don't think so #whilst his screen career was comparatively modest‚ there's no doubt of the influence Topol had nor the impact of his version of Fiddler #his later work as a character actor on tv and film is full of small but superbly realised parts‚ but he was always and remained primarily a #stage actor. Fiddler was the first musical I ever loved and Topol's the first performance I ever heard (I still have the ost in fairly #heavy rotation). the sheer range of emotion and performance he goes through not just in the play but sometimes in one song #i mean If I were a Rich Man is a sort of pop culture behemoth that has a life beyond the play‚ but if you listen to it it's a man #expressing his wants and desires and then redefining them further and further to the realisation that his faith is most important to him #and that really he knows his faith is not predicated on any kind of wealth; and Topol sells every moment‚ the gradual adjustment from #flights of fancy and wild dreams of riches‚ to more modest comforts for his family and loved ones‚ to finally a simple wish to spend less #time working and more in devotion to g-d. it's a beautiful performance by a beautiful performer and one of the true greats of the stage

[spirkbitch]

thinking about how in an interview after the first season of tos came of Leonard Nimoy was asked why he got an award for a supporting role instead of a starring role and he explained how William Shatners the star and he’s just a supporting actor

he may not have been intended to be the ‘star’ but i just love how he ended up being so many peoples favorite after thinking he was just a supporting role

#leonard nimoy #may his memory be a blessing #star trek #star trek tos #spirk #tos spirk #tos spock #spock #love him with all my heart #literally

[ilovedig]

I haven't seen anyone post this yet, but Denny Laine died this morning.

#denny laine #paul mccartney #I'm kinda surprised at how much I'm not falling apart right now. I absolutely adored Denny #But I think after doing research into his wife and finding out he found god in the evangelical way and was an anti vaxxer #even though paul forced him to get it multiple times #I think I mourned his loss then #may his memory be a blessing #Instagram

[daziechane]

May his memory be a blessing.

#Pee Wee Harman #Paul Reubens #may his memory be a blessing

[breawycker]

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

#tweet #mlk #mlk day #martin luther king jr #may his memory be a blessing #vent #discourse #politics #anti capitalism #democratic socialism #black lives matter #fbi #fuck the fbi

[curiouscornfieldcryptid]

don’t mind me rapid fire reblogging harold ramis content on the 10 year anniversary of his passing. I’m very normal

#em has thoughts #ghostbusters #harold ramis #may his memory be a blessing

[rotzaprachim]

‘Stop killing innocent people’

Katsman was involved in various peace initiatives, including Mahsom Watch, which monitors the impact of government activity on Palestinian lives.

Katsman’s sibling, Noy, an activist with Standing Together, which is a grassroots movement of Jews and Palestinians, said Katsman’s death should not be used to justify retribution.

“They always tell us if we’re going to kill enough Palestinians, it’s going to be better for us,” Noy told CNN. “But of course it never brings us peace and never brings us better lives. It just brings more and more terror, and more and more people killed like my brother.”

Noy added:  “I don’t want anything to happen to people in Gaza like it happened to my brother — and I’m sure he wouldn’t want that either. That’s my call to my government: Stop killing innocent people. That’s not the way to bring us peace and security.”

Katsman “wouldn’t want innocent people to be killed,” their mother said. 

#fundamentally there isn't one death that isn't horrific right now #and no one should die. no matter what their ideology #but this one hits so hard because it's the double whammy #this man was violently murdered #and now men who want to speak in his name are calling of rmore innocient people to be killed #and there's nothing more grotesque than that #may his memory be a blessing #z''l