Max Fried of the Atlanta Braves and Joc Pederson of the San Francisco Giants were both named to the All-Star roster. Platt, who attended Jewish summer camps and has performed Jewish classics with his brothers, was not the only prominent Jew to take the field Tuesday night. Idina Menzel, another Jewish Broadway star, performed in 2014. Platten’s “Fight Song” became the theme to Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful presidential bid just a few weeks later. Coming up, Platt will star in the musical comedy movie “Theater Camp,” which is filming at a Jewish summer camp that closed in 2019, and in a revival of the Broadway musical “Parade,” about the 1915 lynching of a Southern Jew.īefore Platt, the most recent Jewish singer to perform the anthem at the All-Star game, a competition between top players from baseball’s two leagues, was Rachel Platten in 2016. national anthem since 1931-offered opportunities for reflection on patriotism, belonging, and individual position within national identity, a particularly resonant topic following a presidential election year.Platt’s appearance at the All-Star game comes amid a packed scheduled of roles with Jewish resonance. The multiple reinterpretations of this song-composed in 1814 by Francis Scott Key and the U.S. Since 2016, Collins has also examined translations of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, an ancient text of exile and homecoming, and familiarity and estrangement from one’s homeland.Īt the Frist, a new artist book featured one hundred versions of “The Star Spangled Banner,” written from the 18th to the 21st centuries in support of specific political or social causes-from temperance and suffrage to abolition and even the confederacy. Department of Justice’s report on the Ferguson, Missouri, police department-to critique the truthfulness and completeness of the official record. She alters existing documents-such as the daily Birmingham News from 1963 or the U.S. 1984) explores the intersection of language and race in her conceptually driven practice.
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