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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)