User:Yid613

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Barnstar, awarded by Aminz to Yid613 for his/her contributions to the article Criticism of Islam.

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Other This user's favourite colour is blue. 這個用戶是華人。 这个用户是华人。 This user is of Chinese ethnicity. This user is owned by one or more cats. This user does not care about driving. This user is interested in his or her family history. This user enjoys reading non-fiction. This user is interested in drama and acting. This user believes that "all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players". This user observes the dietary laws of Kashrut. This user eats bagels. This user eats chicken. This user detests tobacco smoke. This user is single. This user is a Sagittarian. This user is left-handed. This user is a university student.

Music and History This user's favorite subject is Music. This user is a music composer. This user plays the trumpet. This user plays the piano. This user enjoys classical music. This user enjoys jazz music. This user enjoys klezmer. HIS This user's favourite subject is History. This user is a historian. This user is interested in ancient civilizations. This user is interested in ancient Israel. This user is interested in Ancient Iranian Civilization This user is interested in the Sassanian Dynastic Empire. This user is interested in the Romantic period. This user is interested in the Modernist period.

Beliefs, Wikipedia:Babel en This user is a native speaker of English. he-2 משתמש זה מסוגל לתרום ברמה בינונית של עברית.‏ yi-2 דער באַניצער קען בײַשטײַערן מיט אַ מיטלער דרגה פֿון ייִדיש. tmr-2 משתמש הדא ממלל ארמיא דתלמודא בבלאה בדרגא מציעא.‏ es-1 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español. This user is interested in religion. This user is interested in politics. ? This user follows his/her own political ideals. This user is interested in law. This user is a libertarian socialist. no nazis This user opposes facism in all its forms {{User Free Iran}}

My travels

Born at:	Long Beach, California
Lived at:	Cerritos, California Irvine, California
Ancestors from:
Spent lots of time at:
Been to:
Must go to:
To go when possible:

Idea and layout stolen from User:Cool Cat

Reference

Contributions:

• Yid613
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Talk:

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Current Number of Edits:

• Yid613
• 128.195.91.223
• 71.106.151.240

First edit under user name: 21:18, 20 November 2005

First edit under IP addressess: 16:55, 20 August 2005

Statement

My focus on Wikipedia is editing articles relating to secular Jewish culture, especially the Jewish contributions to Broadway theatre and classical music. I also have an interest in history, especially European history, American history and Jewish history, and in various aspects of classical music, particularly Romantic period and 20th century music, as well as all opera in general.. I am a first-year music composition student at the University of California, Irvine who is likely going to double major in history. I am nineteen years old and of half-Toisanese and half-Ashkenazi origin.

To-do list

• Write the Gurrelieder article
• Secular Jewish culture - expand the sections that either aren't summaries of main articles or haven't been expanded yet.

1. European (non-Yiddish/Hebrew) theatre
2. Hebrew theatre
3. Use citations from The Jew in Drama by M.J. Landa to write an Origins section to Theatre

   Use information from that book to also expand the classical music and other theatre sections

4. Film (there's obviously a lot to say!)
5. Television
6. Jews in popular and Jazz music (I think it could use a little more)
7. Dance

• Create Category:Jewish composers and songwriters
• Find some more stuff to add to Gahr High School
• Do more internet searching for names to add to List of Jewish American entertainers#Musicals writers
• Go over Show Boat#Racism and Controversy and see if there's anything more to say

Wisdom

אם אין אני לי, מי לי; וכשאני לעצמי, מה אני; ואם לא עכשיו, אימתיי

"If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?" - Hillel the Elder, quoted in Mishnah Pirkei Avoth 1:14

Pages I've Created

Articles

• Boris Aronson
• Gahr High School

Categories

• Broadway operas
• All-Black cast Broadway shows
• Jewish composers and songwriters
• ABC Unified School District
• Gahr High School Students

Wikiprojects I participate in

• Jewish culture
• Ancient Near East
• Classical music
• Opera
• New York Theatre
• Broadway

Significant Contributions

The four articles that I have been most involved in are in bold.

Secular Jewish culture

(which was far less than the advisable size limit (32 kilobytes) before I started working on it and is now (as of March 9) 90 kilobytes, though some of that added amount is not mine)

• Music - greatly expanded
• Theatre - greatly expanded
• Visual arts - expanded an already good draft

Lists of Jewish Americans

• Musicals writers - greatly expanded from this (63 names, though I'm not sure if I added some even earlier) to this (175 names!!!), thanks to the Internet Broadway Database and my search engine.

Other

• Show Boat#Racism and Controversy - expanded section dealing with racial controversy of the 1994 production from this to this
• In a series of healthy collaborations with Aminz, helped clean up neutrality, grammar, and content issues in Criticism of Islam.
• Worked to balance obvious and disgusting pro-Muslim bias on Islam and anti-Semitism