Wanted: The Next Herman Rosenblat
By Eleanor Goldberg
Herman Rosenblat certainly wasn’t the first to fake a Holocaust memoir, and since it’s unlikely that he’ll be the last, Heeb magazine is soliciting such “talent” before Oprah inadvertently gets her hands on them.
The magazine recently unveiled its Fake Holocaust Memoir Competition — soliciting would-be authors to pen their very own faux first person Holocaust tale. The panel is accepting submissions until April 1; the winner will be announced on April 21, which, not coincidentally, is Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The winning entry will be published in the subsequent issue of the quarterly magazine. Not quite “Oprah,” but still…
July 10, 2008, 2:38pm
Heeb-ish, Not Jewish
By Daniel Treiman
The hipster humorists at Heeb Magazine are taking their cool cultural gestalt out West, organizing a music festival in Oakland, Calif. But, they want to be clear, it’s not a Jewish music festival.
San Francisco’s always informative (albeit unfortunately named) Jewish newsweekly J. reports that the “Heeb fest won’t include any Jewish programming or content, nor will attendees be hearing traditional Jewish tunes.”
“We really could care less whether the people in the bands are Jewish or not — though we promise not to hold it against them if they are,” Heeb editor Joshua Neuman tells J. “Our goal isn’t to showcase Jewish musicians or ‘Jewish music’ — a murky moniker that generally signifies some sort of backwards gaze at a mythical, ‘authentic’ past. We’re interested in creating an amazing festival for our magazine’s community, many of whom happen to be Jewish.”
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