Michael Croland

Oy Oy Oy Gevalt: Punks Practice Judaism with Musical Rebellion

By Michael Croland November 5, 2005

Back in the summer of 5755, four Jewish punk rockers in suburban Baltimore gathered together to play music under the name KOSHER. They screamed about Jewish foods—for example, “Farfel! Hamentashen!”—in true punk fashion. They kvetched through song: “I’m a lonesome Jewish cowboy on the range / All the shiksa cowgirls think I’m strange / I…

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