From Billy Graham to the Baal Shem Tov

Applebaum-Driker Theater From Billy Graham to the Baal Shem Tov: A Jewish Boy’s Flight from the South in the Time of Sputnik Benjamin Feldman, New York City historian, author, raconteur, and "New York Wanderer" blogmaster delights the mind’s eye of history, riding the tall-tale bus with stories of growing up Jewish in a small Southern city in the time of Sputnik. Immersed among foot-washing Baptist neighbors and their revival-tent summers, Benjamin Feldman found his Yiddishkayt by fleeing to New York, first with his nose in a book of Damon Runyon, then off at age 17 to Jewish Gotham for the next 40 years. His love of Yiddish and stories of growing up down South are filled with delicious idioms and elegiac endings -- tartly observing the treasures of life