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George Takei (/ təˈkeɪ /, tə-KAY; born Hosato Takei (武井 穂郷, Takei Hosato); April 20, 1937) is an American actor, author and activist known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Takei was born to Japanese American parents, with whom he lived in Tule Lake Segregation Center ...
9781603094504. They Called Us Enemy is a 2019 graphic novel that is a collaboration by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker. It is about his experiences during the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II. It is published by Top Shelf Productions. The writing was done by Takei, Eisinger, and Scott, with Becker ...
Joshua Braff, novelist [17] Abraham Cahan, journalist, author and editor of Yiddish newspaper Jewish Daily Forward[18][19] Hortense Calisher, novelist and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters [20] Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal, colonial era rabbi who published the first Jewish sermons in America [21] Melvin Jules Bukiet ...
PN2287.T138 A3 1994. To the Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu is an autobiography by actor George Takei, first published by Pocket Books in 1994. Takei describes his early childhood and the time his family spent in Japanese American internment, and experiences which shaped his motivation towards political activism.
Liturgical Jewish poetry (Piyyut) flourished in the Byzantine Palestine in the seventh and eighth centuries with the writings of Yose ben Yose, Yanai, and Eleazar Kalir. [ 1 ] Later Spanish, Provençal, and Italian poets wrote both religious and secular poems. Particularly prominent poets were Solomon ibn Gabirol and Yehuda Halevi.
Aurora Levins Morales, poet, and Jewish Voice for Peace advisory board member [22] Howard Nemerov, poet [23] Alicia Ostriker, poet and scholar [24] Charles Reznikoff, poet [25] Adrienne Rich, poet, essayist [26] Morris Rosenfeld, poet [27] Jerome Rothenberg, poet, anthologist, essayist [28] Muriel Rukeyser, poet [29] Delmore Schwartz, poet and ...
Allegiance is a musical with music and lyrics by Jay Kuo and a book by Marc Acito, Kuo and Lorenzo Thione. The story, set during the Japanese American internment of World War II (with a framing story set in the present day), was inspired by the personal experiences of George Takei, who starred in the musical. It follows the Kimura family in the ...
Jewish culture. Jewish American literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States. It encompasses traditions of writing in English, primarily, as well as in other languages, the most important of which has been Yiddish. While critics and authors generally acknowledge the notion of a distinctive corpus and practice ...