John Got By With Help From Jewish Friends
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono left England in 1971, a few months after the breakup of his band, and moved to New York. They were seeking a normal life in a teeming melting-pot city, far from England's notoriously vicious press and provincial public.
Yoko was widely blamed for the demise of the Beatles, and her avant-garde art and music was slammed and dismissed in "revenge." This was the last straw for Lennon, who had long rebelled against the narrow-mindedness of his countrymen.
It's well known that Lennon abhorred injustice, but he became furious when people close to him were mistreated. Michael Epstein, the Brooklyn-based director of the fascinating documentary, "LennoNYC," notes that the musician's eyes were opened by the Beatles' Jewish manager.
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