Uncovering the not-so-secret Jewish history of punk, from the Ramones to the Beastie Boys.
Sound clips:
- Joey Ramone interview (1991)
- Ramones – Commando (1977)
- Svengali (1931)
- Lenny Bruce – In Which The Artist Discusses Critics, Definitions, His San Francisco Bust, Courts, Juries, Cops, His Philadelphia Bust, Corruption, Obscenity, And Defines Jewish And Goyishe
- New York Dolls – Looking For A Kiss (1973)
- Suicide – Ghost Rider (1977 )
- Beastie Boys – She’s Got It (1985)
- Richard Hell & the Voidoids – Blank Generation (1977)
- Anthony Newley – Feeling Good (1964)
- Ron Moody – You’ve Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two (1968)
- Malcolm McLaren – You Need Hands (1978)
- All Saints – Black Coffee (2000)
- Ramones – The KKK Took My Baby Away (1981)
- Siouxie and the Banshees – Love in a Void (Riverside Demo) including the original lyric “too many Jews for my liking” (1977)
- Sex Pistols – Belsen Was A Gas (1979)
- Pistol (2022)
- Sid Vicious interview from The Filth and the Fury
- Sid & Nancy (1986)
- The Clash – I’m So Bored with the USA (1977)
- Karl Marx – Letter to Arnold Ruge “Reason has always existed, but not always in a rational form” (1844)
- The Believer (2001)
- Miriam Margolyes on Today (2022)
- Patti Smith – Gloria (1975)
- Television – Marquee Moon (1977)
- Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
- Sleater-Kinney – I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone (1996)
- Sex Pistols – Anarchy in the UK (1976)
- Blondie – Rapture (1981)
- Curb Your Enthusiasm – Season 8, Episode 1: ‘The Divorce’ (2011)
- Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
Reading List
- Steven Lee Beeber – Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB’s: A Secret History of Jewish Punk (2006)
- Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz – Beastie Boys Book (2018)
- Jon Savage – England’s Dreaming (1991)
- Nicholas Pegg – The Complete David Bowie (2016)
- Dee Dee Ramone – Legend of a Rock Star: A Memoir: The Last Testament of Dee Dee Ramone (2003)
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