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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
 * 1) Film (there's obviously a lot to say!)
 * 2) Television
 * 3) Jews in popular and Jazz music (I think it could use a little more)
 * 4) 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
 * Go over Show Boat 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

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 - 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