aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] Ukrainians get honorable mention in New Yorker's DadvidRemnick's review of the last season of the Sopranos

["Max Pyziur" <pyz@brama.com>]

" ... The epic is peopled with every variety of twenty-first-century
character imaginable: mobsters, yes, but also shadow communities of smug
and equally troubled psychiatrists, disillusioned F.B.I. agents and cops,
neurotic priests, immigrant “caregivers,” screen-addled teen-agers,
earnestly self-indulgent Columbia students. It is an Essex County of
Italians, Irish, blacks, and Jews, but also of new immigrants: Koreans,
Russians, Ukrainians, and Arabs. ..."

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2007/06/04/070604taco_talk_remnick?printable=true

Personally, I think that it's been documented by Alan Lomax that
Ukrainians have been in Essex County/Newark, NJ at least since the 1930s.

But Remnick's review is too enjoyable of a read to challenge the
inaccuracies.

" ...
And so began Tony’s quest for a renewed sense of family, heritage,
coherent truths, mental health, and a prime cut of the Esplanade
construction projects. “The Sopranos,” the richest achievement in the
history of television, comes to an end June 10th, after eighty-six
episodes. It has been with us a long time—longer than the Bush
Administration (and nothing seems more interminable than that).
..."

fyi,

MP
pyz@brama.com