Please make a post or posts about a Jewish thinker, artist, activist etc. that has made you or your world better….
It’s hard to narrow this down to even one, as famous people aside, I grew up in Skokie, IL and then went to college an hour or so north of NYC, so virtually every single best friend of mine since I was four has been Jewish.
But if we’re going got talk famous people — Jewish-American culture is American culture, we’re all soaking in it — I’ll name-drop Harlan Ellison and Chris Cornell.
I realize he is a problematic figure now, but Ellison was the writer I wanted to be when I was in my teens and 20s. No other author has ever had the effect on me that he did.
Cornell is my vision of gorgeous manhood and musical genius; if there’s an album I’ve listened to more than Supeunknown, I’m not sure what it is.
Stan Lee revived and updated the superhero genre, which has been incredibly inspirational to me for decades.
Jeff Dee I would have mentioned ol’ Stan but Michael Miller beat me to it.