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GIBSON Custom Shop Firebird VII, 2015, Frost Blue, Gold hardware, Deluxe Tremolo, 3 pickups, exc+, papers, ohsc..$5500
*NATIONAL Estralita Deluxe Resonator Guitar, 2024, Sunburst wood body, curly Maple top, Walnut back & sides, single Resonator, diamond pearl fretboard inlays, 12-frets to the body, pearloid peghead overlay, near mint, ohsc.....$2900
*FENDER Champ Amp, 1959, Tweed Narrow panel, 8" original speaker, all good inside, vgc+...$2795
*NATIONAL Amp, model 1275, 12 watts, ca 1951, TV front, all original
with original 10" speaker, exc.......$850
*PEAVEY Backstage Plus amp,'80s, vgc...$200
*RICKENBACKER 660-12, recent, Fireglo with checkered binding, what's especially good good ios this one has Rickenbacker's wide neck so it's actually a pleasure for your left hand, near mint, ohsc..$2450
*PHANTOM P-Bass, dark blue, Rosewood board, vgc, hsc...$150
*OVATION Breadwinner, c 1974, Black, 2 pickups all original
*GIBSON L6-S, 1978, Natural, solid Maple body, Maple neck with Maple fretboard, 2 humbuckers, all original, 6 position Rotary dial, exc, ohsc....$1395
*GIBSON L6 Midnight Special, 1973-74, Natural, solid Maple body, Maple neck
with Maple fretboard, 2 humbuckers, bolt-on neck, satin finish w/ comfort
carve top, strings-thru-body, exc, gigbag....$995
*GIBSON SG Custom Showcase Edition, 1988, Ferrari Red, black hardware and plastic, 3 pickups- DiMarzio humbuckers but there are 2 original EMGs in the case, bound Ebony board with Pearl block inlays, exc, ohsc...$3250
*GUILD Starfire IV, 1996, Black, semi-hollow SF-4, made in Waverly Rhode Island, 2 Guild humbuckers, exc, ohsc...$1250
*GIBSON Grabber Bass, 1978, Natural Maple body,
Maple neck with Maple fretboard, 1 pickup that slides up or down for
bass or treble tones, all original, exc, ohsc..$1900
*IBANEZ Artist, made in Japan, c 1983,darkburst, set up with tunomatic and stopbar tailpiece behind which are 3 tiny plugged screw holes from the original tailpiece, Rosewood peghead overlay, 2 humbuckers, Rosewood board with Abalone and Pearl block markers, coil taps, smooth neck heel/body construction, vgc+....$1150
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*FENDER Aerodyne Bass, LEFTY, made in Japan, Red with bound top, Rosewood Board, P Bass pickup in the middle, Jazz bass pickup at the bridge, both are now replaced with Fralins, exc, gigbag...$695
*FENDER Mexican Jazz Bass, LEFTY, Fiesta Red, original pickups have been upgraded to Duncans, Rosewood board w/ dots, exc, gigbag...$495
*FENDER Jazz Bass, LEFTY, 1975, Natural, Maple neck with pearloid block inlays, pickups changed to Fralins, vgc+, hsc...on hold
*EPIPHONE Jack Cassidy Bass, LEFTY, used,
Gold, semi-hollow, double cutaway, the bridge was replaced but original
is in the case, 1 Pickup, Rosewood board with pearloid markers,
exc, ohsc...$750
*WATERLOO WL-14 Scissortail, ca 2017, Spruce top, Maple back and sides, exc, ohsc......$2750
*GIBSON J-45 Custom Deluxe Rosewood, 2000, Spruce top, Rosewood back and sides, round shoulder, scalloped bracing, Ebony board amnd bridge, multi-colored rope top purfling, pearl split diamond fretboard inlays with brass borders, LR Baggs VTC pickup, exc, ohsc...$4500 PEDALS-
*REVERBAMATE by VANAMPS, ca 2005, ASR-1 Analog Spring Reverb w/ real reverb tank, exc.....$200
*MAXON AD01, ca 1990, made in Japan, Analog Delay, purple, exc....$195
*HOMEBREW Electronics FROSTBITE Flanger, 2008, white, 6 knobs,
and an odd/even toggle, exc...$200
*DUNN Tonebender, like a tonebender Mk II, has silicon transistors, ca 2016 grey, exc......$200
*TURNIP FARMS, ca 2016, 3 different Rat circuits plus a harmonic percolator, exc...$200 gbl
*EPIPHONE Zephyr Deluxe Regent, 1951, Blonde, 17" cutaway with 2 New Yorker Epi pickups, gold hardware, all original with white octagonal knobs, Frequensator tailpiece, the only change is a large metal jack plate added, vgc, ohsc..$4900
*GIBSON Lonnie Mack Flying V, 1993, Cherry, this particular Lonnie
Mack V is from the first year of production and is in near mint
condition, just like what Lonnie wanted for his '59 V these
have the added Bigsby and mounting metal, even with all the metal
it weighs only 8.72 lbs, ohsc...$6250
*1/2 Size and 3/4 size starter guitars, by Stadium- they all have perfect playability....$89 for the half & $95 for the 3/4 size
*FENDER Mustang, 1966, Dakota Red, some checking but otherwise excellent condition and all original other than a cap change, with original grey speckle case....$2750
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ATLAS Baritone Tres conversion, made in Japan, 3 pairs of strings, whatever it is it's unique and sounds great..$395
*EPIPHONE 'Inspired by Gibson' J-45, recent, sunburst, w/ Fishman pickup, looks like a traditional Gibson round shouldered J-45, exc, gigbag...$495
*FIREFLY BASS 6 solid body, creme, 30" scale, Maple neck w/ black block markers, Jaguar style body, 2 humbuckers, exc, gigbag.....$395
*"PENN" logo on a KAY Thin Twin 'Jimmy Reed', ca 1962, Blonde curly maple body, 2 original pickups, beautiful tortoise pickguard, fine action from a recent pro neck set, vgc+, case...$1895
*GIBSON L-2,1924, Blonde Archtop with round sound hole, Snakehead peghead, adjustable truss rod, vgc+, ssc...
*NASH Tele Custom, 2014, aged black finish, bound top and back, Rosewood board,
3 intonated brass saddles, vgc+ hsc....$1850
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*MARTIN 000-21, 1951, changed tuners, oversized bridge, Brazilian Rosewood back and sides, vgc, hsc....$6500
*MARTIN D-18S, 1974, sunburst finish, 12 frets to the body, pickguard changed to tortoise, original thin-line Grover tuners, bridge has been shave down a bit, vgc, original Blue plastic Martin case..$4900 GBl
*TUBES, TUBES TUBES, NEW,
by MESA BOOGIE, FENDER and other brands
We have 6L6, 5881, EL-34, EL-84, 12AX7, 12 AT7, and others, $50/PAIR
*HUBERT SUMLIN'S Squier Telecaster, 2005, Butterscotch, Maple neck, played with many performers and autographed by guitarists he played with- Sonny Landreth, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, and Johnny Winter and Albert Lee, we bought this from Hubert's manager and caretaker of many years. As Howlin’ Wolf’s longtime guitarist from 1955 until 1976 when Wolf passed, Hubert Sumlin (1931-2011) kept to the shadows, but his sweet, subtle, sophisticated leads were the perfect foil for the big man out front. His name may not have been known in every household, but Sumlin’s playing influenced the likes of Hendrix, Clapton, Beck, Richards, Page and Robbie Robertson vgc++, gigbag....$1950
*GUILD Starfire VI, 1967, Blonde, Guild's top of the line semi-hollow
electric, this has a curly Maple body with gold hardware, a Guild
branded Bigsby, Abalone/Pearl triangle and square inlays, 100%
original with case exc+.........$6950
*EASTMAN MD615, NEW, Golden Sunburst, premo F-Style MAndolin,
all hand carved, with K&K pickup......$2049
*EASTMAN MD-515, New, F-style Mandolin with ƒ holes, hsc..$1569
*EASTMAN MD404-0BK, New, Black, A-style with Oval sound hole, w/case... gbl
*MATCHLESS Lightning '15 Combo, 1996, Green, 2x10" speakers,
2 EL-84 power tubes, Volume ,Bass, Treble & Master controls,
1 owner, exc....$2750
*TONE KING Imperial Combo, ca 1999, Black & creme, 20 watts with Tremolo and Reverb, based on a 1960 Tweed Deluxe but has exquisite clean sound, exc...$1950
*GIBSON Les Paul Standard, 2002, Amber, '60 classic neck feel, highly figured Maple top, 8.9 lbs, Duncan humbuckers, changed tuners but originals are in the original brown case, exc....$2250
*EASTMAN AC630, New, Blonde, 17"wide Jumbo, Maple Neck with Ebony
Fingerboard, 1 3/4" at the bone nut, 25.4" scale
Hand Scalloped X bracing, solid Engleman Spruce top,
solid Flamed Maple back & sides, Ebony bridge 2 5/32" Spacing
Abalone Rosette, Dual Acting truss rod, Figured Maple binding all around
Pearl Headstock logo, Pearl and Abalone Palace fretboard inlays
Gold hardware, Hardshell Case, $3629 list....$2900
*FENDER ToneMaster TWIN Reverb, recent, Creme, solid state, 35lbs, attenuation controls on back, 2-12s, near mint....$995
*HEADSTRONG Lil King, used, Black tolex, Reverb & Tremolo, exc...$2200
*JERRY JONES Single Cutaway Bass, ca 2005, Green, updated bridge, vgc+, gigbag....$1950
*FENDER Body Guard, fits Mustang, with original box, ca 1975...$100 gbl
*SEVENTY-SEVEN Albatross II, semi-hollow, Sunburst finish, solid Spruce top with ƒ holes, totally Made in JAPAN, Mahogany body, Ebony board, 6.2 lbs, stop tailpiece with tunomatic, 2 humbuckers, exc, ohsc....$1395
*TAYLOR 114CE, recent, cutaway dreadnought, vgc, ohsc...$595
* JACKSON Kelly Colored Dragon, Custom for the 2003 NAMM show 1 of 3 but the only one of this body style, made in USA, neck-thru, Ebony board with Fire Breath pearl inlay, 24 frets, Duncan Jeff Beck pickup, Art by Dan Lawrence, mint, ohsc.....$12,500
*FENDER Telecaster Deluxe, 1974, Mocha Brown, 2 Wide Range Humbuckers, Maple board, upgraded tuners, all else original, vgc++, ohsc...$3950
*GRETSCH G6129TL, Duo-Jet Reissue, ca 2008, Black, made in Japan, Bigsby, Filtertron pickups, neo-classic 1/2 moon fretboard inlays, original except now has a tunomatic bridge, aged finish, vgc+, ohsc, papers...$1895
*FURCH LJ 11-SR, NEW, Little Jane, Spruce top Rosewood back & sides, the perfect travel guitar whose neck easily is removed and stashed in the guitar while the whole thing fits into the Furch Backpack...and, it stays in tune upon the 20 second re-assembly! Solid Spruce top, solid Rosewood back and sides, 24" scale, 1 11/16" at the nut, locking tuners, zero fret with strings-thru-the-nut....$2388 https://furchguitars.com/en/instruments/travel-guitars/lj10-cm/
*JERRY JONES Sitar, ca 2010, Teal Alligator finish, near mint, ohsc...$1900
*FANO TC-6, used, made in Arizona, Blue, 2 metal clad P-90
type pickups, tortoise guard, Maple neck, 1 21/32" at the nut,
25.4" scale, 7.85 lbs, exc, gigbag.....$1900
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*GIBSON Les Paul Custom '57 Re-issue, 2001, Black, signed on top by
Les Paul with phot of Les signing it, all original with Gibson
PAF re-issue pickups without covers,
9.95 lbs, vgc, ohsc....$3650
*MARTIN 3M Ukulele, ca 1936, a beautiful no issue 3M Uke with 6 ply black/white purfling on the top and white bound top and back, has the Celluloid ornament on top behind the bridge (known as the "parend") 17 fret ebony fingerboard extends to the soundhole , 3 lines inlaid down center of fingerboard. with 3 dots to the left and 3 dots to the right, no repairs or touchups, original canvas case, exc+....$2250
*EASTMAN MDC-804 MANDOCELLO, 2021, all-solid carved Mandocello with
spruce top and flamed maple back and sides, oval soundhole, Maple neck
with a radiused Ebony Fingerboard, 1 3/4″ at the nut, 25″ scale ebony
fingerboard, cast-aluminum tailpiece, gloss reddish violin finish
with ivoroid binding, exc, ohsc....$2150
*GIBSON A-Junior, 1926, dark Brown, carved top with oval
soundhole, "The Gibson" headstock logo in script, several
solidly repaired cracks, upgraded tuners, wide ope sound,
gc, ossc...$995
*WASHBURN M6SWK, F-STYLE Mandolin, Jethro Burns model, F-style mandolin
carved solid spruce top and book-matched solid flamed Maple back
and sides, it has stand-out rope purfing on the top edge, classic
rosewood fingerboard with floral vine inlays, rosewood bridge,
gold hardware with Monteleone inspired cast tailpiece,
exc, ohsc...hold
*TAYLOR Big Baby, exc, gigbag...$350 MORE (mostly) Vintage TUBES- 7 Philips JAN 12AX7 $ 75 each 8 Svetlana eL-34 $ 35 each 8 Telefunken 12AX7. $ 75 each 4 Mullard CV4004 KQDD/K $150 each 2 Mullard 5AR4 $250 each 1 RCA 5U4 gb $ 75 1 Visseaux 6V6 $120 4 RCA 5881 $125 each 4 Phillips Jan 6V6 $50 each
* a BOB DYLAN Hohner Marine Band Harmonica, Key of D Hohner Harmonica in the key of D, with approximately a 1” square of textured opaque white tape in the middle of the top of the harmonica with the Key inked on in magic marker formerly owned by Bob Dylan. This is how Bob had his harps marked so that he could readily see the key he needed while on stage, or in the studio as Hohner identifies the key of each harp with only a tiny 1/8” impression of the key into the end of the harp, extremely difficult to see in normal circumstances let alone during a session or a concert. This one was purchased by me from a friend, who was given it as a gift by one of Dylan's techs both of whom I know personally. A similar one written in the same hand, on the exact same textured tape and was sold at auction for $4886 including the buyer’s premium: https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/343653105965280 The harmonica is in excellent condition, with case......$4500
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*Palm Trees, Senoritas... and Rocket Ships" - the illustrated History of National, Dobro, Supro, Valco and OMI Guitars A 423 page tour-de-force that explores the fascinating design world of the musical instruments produced by the Dopyera Brothers from 1923 to 1993. Famous for their 'National' guitars, they went on to pioneer electric pickups, fiberglass construction, amplifiers etc, and influenced the sound of Country Music, Bluegrass, Blues and Hawaiian music through most of the 20th Century. Entirely and lavishly illustrated with over 1100 musical instruments and amplifiers and more than 100 artists who used them - this is THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION of all the various developments, designs, colours and engraving patterns of everything produced by the Dopyera Brothers in their various companies throughout the 20th century - National, Dobro, Supro, Valco, Mosrite, Regal and OMI. It has them ALL! It also features lap steels, amplifiers and various National and Valco manufactured items for other Trade houses. The book is concluded with an updated list of the serial numbers of known and re-discovered instruments - now in excess of 4200. A MUST HAVE for anyone interested in these guitars. Leaves other books on the subject in the dust....$140 In the 1/24/13 Bergen Record, nice article- http://snipurl.com/26aujli*STORE PANORAMIC VIEW- OF SORTS ______________________________ To see Lark Street Music's Wall click here Duke Levine w/ the Roy Sludge Trio in the store the day between the Bowery and the Bell House gigs in NY last week - click here for a clip. Also check out ______________________________________________________________________
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We often get asked "where do these guitars come from" ??? or "who buys these things" ??
So here's an interesting picture of the quite rare White ES-345 (that we had for sale for about a year) with both it's original ( c. 1964), and current (April'06) owners.
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Some have complained about bad pictures. If this is happening to you or your PC, let me know. We have Macs and the pictures are large and clear, so we'd like to know figure out why this problem is happening
An answer from my brother Rick-
By default, Internet Explorer will shrink pictures to fit onto one screen. That's probably what people are complaining about. Usually, if they hold the cursor over the picture for a few seconds, a button will appear and they can click it to restore the pic to full size. I hate the feature, so I just turn it off and always see the photos full-size:
From the IE menu bar, click Tools | Internet Options
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Scroll down to the Multimedia section
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For you who don't know, we do all manner of guitar repair and restoration. We do most of it here but also give some work to Dom Ramos -repairing and building since working in Dan Armstrong's shop in the '60s. We've also been a Martin Warrantee Center since 1985 before Martin closed down all 5 NJ Centers because of a tax dispute between NJ and Martin Political sentiments Turn back before it's too late!\\ UPDATED JULY 16 https://www.facebook.com/reel/685997670609240 AND THIS TOO- https://www.facebook.com/reel/1440054026935399 and this- https://www.facebook.com/reel/3623986564575308 by David Horovitz, Editor of Times of Israel 2/11/26 It’s not remotely surprising that President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia is being met with protests by “pro-Palestinian” activists falsely alleging Israeli genocide in Gaza. After all, “pro-Palestinian” activists in Australia, and pretty much everywhere else on the planet, have been demonstrating against Israel’s resort to war from almost immediately after Hamas invaded southern Israel from a Jew-free Gaza Strip, massacred some 1,200 people amid unspeakable brutality, abducted 251 to Gaza, and vowed to keep on killing Israelis until the world’s only Jewish-majority state is destroyed. These are not demonstrations regarding Israel’s prosecution of the war, or focused on the pro-annexation policies of a hawkish Israeli government, by activists genuinely concerned for the well-being of non-terrorist Palestinians and noncombatants in any and all conflict zones. Rather, these are concerted protests transparently designed to demonize and delegitimize Israel and Israel alone, in its entirety and its essence — to render Israel a pariah state with which no decent country should interact in any field, to deny it not only the right to defend itself but the weaponry and practical capacity to defend itself, and thus to aid Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime in their declared mission to wipe us out. So the demonstrations against Herzog’s visit are anything but surprising. But they are particularly revealing, horrifying and despicable. Anti-Israel protesters gather in front of a police station in Surry Hills in Sydney on February 10, 2026. (Saeed KHAN / AFP) Twenty-seven months of orchestrated global activism have relentlessly spread a narrative in which the Jewish state, uniquely, can do no right, and calculatedly created a bedrock of empathy and support for regimes, terrorist groups, and individuals who seek to murder and maim Israelis and Jews wherever we are found. And in that deliberately created climate of murderous hostility, in Sydney, Australia, on December 14, 2025, father and son Islamic extremists Sajid and Naveed Akram massacred 15 people at a Hanukkah party on Bondi Beach. This was not a case of direct cause and effect. Naveed had links to a pro-Islamic State network in Australia dating back to 2019. But you might have wanted to believe that the deadly and terribly predictable turn of events in Australia would have given the country’s “pro-Palestinian” activists pause. The victims of the December 14, 2025, Sydney Hanukkah terror shooting: top row (left to right) – Reuven Morrison, Rabbi Yaakov Levitan, Dan Elkayam, Alex Kleytman, Rabbi Eli Schlanger; middle row (left to right) – Edith Brutman, Peter Meagher, Tibor Weitzen, Marika Pogany, Matilda [last name withheld]; bottom row (left to right) – Tania Tretiak, Boris Tetleroyd, Adam Smyth, Sofia and Boris Gurman. (Composite: Times of Israel; Images: Courtesy/social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law) Fellow Australians were gunned down on the beach for being Jewish. Now, the president of the nation-state of the Jewish people is visiting to try to bring the devastated Jewish community a little solace and comfort. And the protests are targeting him? You might have wanted to hope that, if there were to be demonstrations to coincide with Herzog’s visit, they would have been held to demand that the Australian government take more effective measures to protect the Australian Jewish community, that it take more effective measures to tackle the ongoing stream of antisemitic attacks, that it take more effective measures to prevent the dissemination of hate materials online. Israel’s President Isaac Herzog, right, and his wife Michal Herzog, second right, visit Bondi Beach, where two Islamic terrorists killed 15 people at a Hanukkah event on December 14, 2025, in Sydney on February 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft) In truth, you would not have expected anything of the kind. We all know better than to be so naive. But that’s what should have been happening on Herzog’s visit. For that matter, those “pro-Palestinian” activists who purport to care for innocent lives, in the Middle East and beyond, should also have been out on the streets demonstrating on behalf of the people of Iran, who have been risking their lives — and losing them in the thousands if not the tens of thousands — to try to bring down their repressive, misogynistic, warmongering Islamic death cult leadership. These were innocent people ruthlessly massacred by their own oppressive government, to widespread international indifference. Anti-Israel protesters gather in front of a police station in Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia, on February 10, 2026. (Saeed KHAN / AFP) But, of course, in Australia as pretty much everywhere else on the planet, the “pro-Palestinian” activists are not actually “pro” freedom for Palestinians, or Iranians or anybody else, nor “pro” the right to live peaceably, in safety, under humane leadership. They claim to be opposing ostensible genocide by the Jewish state. In fact, they are seeking to enable the destruction of the Jewish state, and championing the mass murder of Jews — even, if not especially, because it has been unfolding in their own country. 10/16/25 From "The Tablet" What are the cool kids chanting these days, what with “ceasefire now” being, like, so three days ago? We hardly expected a “Thank you, president Trump!” or a “good job there, Bibi.” We’re not crazy. But it’s the fall, and the leaves are turning colors, and everyone is enjoying pumpkin-spice-everything and dreaming about the holidays, so we hoped that maybe we’d get just a few days of basic human decency focused on sentiments like “let’s rebuild!” or “time to heal!” or “gee, it’s sure good to see the hostages back home with their loved ones.” Forget it, Jack—this is Palestine, and the cool kids have a new war cry: “Death to all collaborators.” That chant ain’t theoretical: it’s praising the very real murders of very real Palestinians, executed in the streets of Gaza by panicky Hamas terrorists in the aftermath of Trump’s deal. Just who’s doing the chanting? That would be our pals over at Students for Justice in Palestine, or SJP, America’s premiere “pro-Palestine” organization. You know SJP, right? Zohran Mamdani sure does: He founded the hate group’s local chapter at his alma mater, Bowdoin College. We know what you’re thinking: Don’t be mean! Just because someone supported something in college doesn’t mean he supports it still! I mean, it’s college, and people do stupid things in college, like grab that eighth beer, or hit on their TA, or pledge allegiance to a genocidal group dedicated to getting Jews thrown off campus, the Jewish state destroyed, and the American “empire” eradicated, by any means necessary. You know, exuberant, youthful stuff! But hard as Mamdani may try, he just can’t quit hatin’ on the Jews. This week, his own wife, the artist Rama Duwaji, took a break from her constant stream of anti-Israel screeds to post a mournful note bemoaning the death of Sale al-Jafarawi, killed this week by Palestinians in Gaza. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, perhaps you know al-Jafarawi by his nom de bullshit, Mr. Fafo: As Liel Leibovitz wrote in Tablet two years ago, al-Jafarawi emerged as perhaps Hamas’s most effective propaganda artist. He died on camera several times only to be miraculously reborn the very next moment, sired a (plastic) baby and lost it in (fake) Israeli air raids, posed as a doctor and a patient and a foreign correspondent and a combatant, always grinning widely because the grotesque, obvious lying was precisely the point. “Why do we love him so?” Leibovitz asked. “Why has he become the subject of so much attention, on social media and in the press?” The answer, he argued, was as simple as it was searing: Because he is the pure embodiment of a greater truth: We live in an age that has progressed beyond rational argument. It should be obvious by now that so many of the creeps who purport to weep for Palestine don’t really care about Palestinians, dead or alive, or about Israelis, or about the historical and moral intricacies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What they want is an excuse to indulge in something deeper, more libidinal, ancient, and indeed erotic—hating Jews. They cheer for #MrFAFO not despite the fact that he’s so obviously faking it but precisely because of it. His performances promise liberation from the annoyances of a fact-based reality whose contradictions are inherently troubling, and instead affirm that old motto coined by Hasan-i Sabbah, the 12th-century founder of the Hashashin, or the Order of the Assassins—nothing is true, everything is permitted. That this is the person the very likely next first lady of New York City mourns as her “beloved” is troubling. Just ask the young New Yorkers who opened their hearts to TV writer Yoni Weinberg this week, telling stories of how former friends and fellow progressives turned on them the moment they dared supporting Israel, and wondering whether it was time to get out of Dodge. “When I saw Mamdani win, it was really difficult,” one film director told Weinberg. “I spent time in Paris growing up and experienced hardcore antisemitism there, so I know what it looks like outside America. To see that kind of hatred reach the one place that, in my mind, was safe from it is too much to bear. It breaks my heart.” Is your heart breaking, too, when you see the largest Jewish community outside Israel littered with vile anti-Semitic slogans and about to be seized by a Third World blowhard terror enthusiast? We have the perfect prescription: Pack your bags and run right up to the Magic Mountain. As David Mikics writes in Tablet today, Thomas Mann’s classic, itself now the subject of a brilliant new book-length study, is modernism’s most humane novel, a masterwork that has a thing or two to teach anyone wondering why seemingly normal people become engrossed by absolutely crazy ideas.(All prices subject to change, up or down!)
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