I can be the other side of the world music game. I can be like Paul Simon looking at some other culture and saying I want to participate. You have to grant Don Byron that right to play any music and incorporate it into his identity. When you grant him that right, you have to grant yourself that right. Baer ends the film by reaffirming his own identity, playing his grandfather's favorite klezmer tune on the violin.
Dykes are maybe more the political, radical queers as opposed to lesbians.
You're making Jewish as powerful and cool as being a dyke. Others in the film voice the difficulty of being an outsider in both worlds. In one segment evocative of the Holocaust, a Star of David is carved into Uhlmann's breast, dissolving into blood. My family got a little freaked out. My great-uncle has numbers.