Jake Marmer
By Jake Marmer
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Culture At 90, Stanley Moss Reflects on a Life in Poetry
At 90, poet and editor Stanley Moss is as busy as ever. Following the publication of his latest collection, “It’s About Time,” he’s readying himself for a tour of Europe, editing manuscripts for Sheep Meadow Press, and of course, continuing to write. A sardonic visionary and voracious raconteur, Moss has had a substantial influence on…
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Music How Michael Alpert Brought Klezmer Into the 21st Century
The scent of herring; owlish spectacles; dusty, tragedy-laden archives; scratchy vinyl records you wouldn’t want your friends to know about — these are the things one sometimes associates with Yiddish culture. For more than three decades, Michael Alpert has worked hard on preserving and reviving an Eastern European Jewish tradition that is precisely the opposite…
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Culture 5 Albums To Pick Up in 2015
● Yiddish Art Trio BFR Music / Pattysounds /Michael Winograd, $15 ● Songs of Zebulon Jeremiah Lockwood, Frank London, and Friends Blue Thread, $18 ● Schizophonia Yoshie Fruchter Blue Thread, $18 ● Roadsides Ayelet Rose Gottlieb Arogole Music, $13.51 ● The Fallout of Dreams Dave Liebman and Steve Dalachinsky RogueArt, $15.95 As the temperatures begin…
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The Schmooze The Best Jewish Poetry of 2014
Since 2010, it has become the Forward’s tradition to highlight five memorable poetry releases of the year — but this year we have six. Among this year’s selections are “Breathturn Into Timestead,” a collection of five final volumes of poetry by Paul Celan, newly translated by Pierre Joris, and three vastly different retrospectives by David…
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The Schmooze The Best Jewish Music of 2014
Photo: Anna London 1. Zion80, Adramelech: Book of Angels 22 (Tzadik, $13.99) Jon Madof’s 12-piece super-group Zion80, whose debut release last year was hailed enthusiastically in the Forward, The New York Times and elsewhere, has now released its second album, “Adramelech.” It’s a departure from the original concept of bringing together Shlomo Carlebach and Fela…
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The Schmooze A Delirious Interpretation of the Binding of Isaac for Yom Kippur
Writing of Kafka’s tales, Walter Benjamin pointed out that Kafka’s tangled meanings “do not modestly lie at the feet of the doctrine, as the Haggadah lies at the feet of Halakah… they raise a mighty paw against it.” Benjamin, ultimately, juxtaposed the Jewish law (halachah) with mythic storytelling (aggadah), envisioning the rise of the latter…
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The Schmooze POEM: ‘The Robe: Improvisation on a Theme’
This poem’s “head” (first three lines) are attributed to Rabbi Menachem Nachum Twerski of Chernobyl (1730-1798).
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The Schmooze POEM: ‘everywhere’
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