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The Schmooze Four Poems By Alicia Jo Rabins
Each Thursday, The Arty Semite features excerpts and reviews of the best contemporary Jewish poetry. This week, Jake Marmer introduces four poems by Alicia Jo Rabins. Songwriters who are also known as poets often only become so once they receive a degree of popular acclaim for their music. Cases in point include Bob Dylan and…
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The Schmooze Bob Dylan Proves He’s Still Got It in Tel Aviv
Crossposted from Haaretz Those who cast doubt on Bob Dylan’s ability to perform were forced to eat their words after his excellent performance Monday night. What hasn’t been said about the old-timer’s performance skills? They said that he was tired, they warned that his voice has gone, they predicted a catastrophe similar to his 1987…
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The Schmooze Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan!
Seventy does not mean old or young. As Bob Dylan says in Floater: The old men ’round here, sometimes they get On bad terms with the younger men But old, young, age don’t carry weight It doesn’t matter in the end In the imagination of the Jewish sages of Late Antiquity, 70 means quality, not…
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The Schmooze At 70, Bob Dylan Remains the Reluctant Prophet
Bob Dylan turns 70 on May 24. So what? Well, for one, let’s see you continue to perform two-hour concerts 100 nights a year, as you’ve been doing practically nonstop for the past quarter-century or so, all over the world, keeping things new and fresh, while the music industry around you falls apart; your body…
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The Schmooze Out and About: Israeli Music for Syrian Protestors; The Shame of Playing Shylock
The Independent takes a look at Habonim, the Socialist Zionist youth group that was once home to Mike Leigh, David Baddiel and Sacha Baron Cohen. The Brooklyn Rail revisits the work of Russian Jewish filmmaker Dziga Vertov, on the occasion of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Israeli singer Amir Benayoun (profiled in…
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The Schmooze Out and About: Eichmann, 50 Years Later; Israel on the (Art) World Stage
Israeli authors such as David Grossman and Amos Oz are protesting their government’s decision to deport Palestinian bookstore owner Munther Fahmi. A 2,000-year-old synagogue in the Libyan town of Yefren is said to have been destroyed by government forces. On the 50th anniversary of the Eichmann Trial, Deborah E. Lipstadt looks at six of the…
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The Schmooze Gaga May Go Back to Israel!
It sounds more like a wish list than something to plan on, but Lady Gaga and some other major stars could be on their way to Israel this summer. Today’s Yediot Aharonot reports that the “Born This Way” singer is being courted by “operatives in the American and Canadian Jewish communities” about a concert that…
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The Schmooze Out and About: Elizabeth Taylor’s Best Roles; Translating Kabbalistic Poetry
The San Francisco Bay Guardian profiles Rabbi Michael Lerner on the 25th anniversary of Tikkun Magaine. Watch a selection of Elizabeth Taylor’s best roles. How Jewish playwrights adapted Shakespeare for the Yiddish stage. “The Jump Artist,” the debut novel by Austin Ratner, has won the $100,000 Sami Rohr prize. Read the Forward’s review here and…
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