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GROUP SHOT: Jaishri Abichandani creates dozens of portraits and sculptures of her fellow South Asian-American
feminist activists to highlight the rich diversity of her underrepresented community. Photo by Kevin Duggan
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
Check out Brooklyn’s leastknown
refugees.
A new exhibit at several
branches of the Brooklyn
Public Library highlights
the little-known, World War
II–era migration of Jewish
people from Europe to
Shanghai to the Borough of
Kings. “Jewish Refugees in
Artist salutes
South-Asian
feminists
She’s made a community collage!
A new exhibit will put a face
on New York’s community of
South Asian-American feminist
activists. Artist Jaishri Abichandani
dozen small-scale portraits of
her fellow rabble-rousers for her
show “Jasmine Blooms at Night,”
opening at Bric on April 24.
The show features 26 paintings
and four sculptures that celebrate
different women and queer people
little-known outside of activist
circles, said the artist.
“They’re not going to be visible
to people outside of my community.
we know the work they’ve done,
we love them and appreciate
them,” said Abichandani.
The prominent display of
Shanghai” — now on view
at the Central Library, and
opening at the Kensington
branch on April 20 — illuminates
an overlooked part
of the past and draws parallels
to our treatment of
refugees today, according
to one organizer.
“We want to explore the
history to see how much we
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
has produced more than two
her community’s many
pushing for change, who are
We know who they are,
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can learn from it, and how
much use it can have in
our current reality,” said
Bay Ridgite Frank Xu, who
manages the library’s languages
and literature division.
“The theme is ‘What
should people do when another
nationality is on the
verge of collapse?’ ”
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
This store serves more than just
fresh produce.
A Brighton Beach grocery
store has terrorized the local
community, according to neighbors
who alleged that the owners
have left garbage littered on the
sidewalk and cars crowding the
road.
“It’s like a war between the
community and the store,” said
Arlene Brenner. “There’s more
stuff everyday. One day there’s
a truck parked on the street
and no one can get through, the
next day there’s trash all over
the sidewalk.”
My Mandarin grocery store,
located on the corner of Ocean
Parkway and Brighton Beach
Avenue, has been fi ned by the
Department of Buildings several
times since opening last December
for a variety of Building
Codes and Zoning violations, according
to a department spokesperson.
But that has failed to deter
store owners from skirting
the law, according to Brighton
Beach resident Ida Sanoff.
“This is someone who does
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
City offi cials are investigating
an allegation that teachers
at a Coney Island school
last week left an 8-year-old
physically disabled student
alone on a school bus
after he fell asleep, and
failed to inform the boy’s
mother that he was missing,
a spokeswoman at the
Department of Education
confi rmed.
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RELIC OF THE PAST: Jewish
refugee children pose with
Shanghai locals in 1945 or
’46.
Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum
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Brighton
Beachers
Mom: My son was Exhibit on Jewish exodus
forgotten on bus
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