Alicia Jo Rabins

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Alicia Jo Rabins
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Alicia Jo Rabins is a performer, musician, singer, composer, poet, writer, and Jewish scholar. She lives in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. Her use of language and words is central to her work: "Words may be the closest we get to immortality as humans. Death has no power over those words. Geography has no power over them. They transmit something beyond any one, or any community's, lifetime." [1] She played violin for eight years in the rock-klezmer band Golem. [1] [2]

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Biography

She got her B.A. in English and creative writing at Barnard College, received an M.F.A. in poetry from Warren Wilson College, an M.A. in Jewish gender and women's studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and studied for two years at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem.

During the Fall 2016 session, she taught a course, "Arts and Jewish Experience: Exploring Diverse American Identities through Art", at Portland State University. [3]

In 2014, Rabins performed "A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff". [4] She has performed at: Webster Hall, New York City (October 27, 2008); [5] "A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff", Portland State University (May 2014); [4] University of North Carolina at Asheville (March 6, 2018); [6] and The Poetry Project, New York City (November 26, 2018). [7] Rabins and her work has been featured in The New York Times , Literary Mama , [8] the Jewish Women's Archive, [9] Lilith , [10] The Forward , [11] Tablet , [12] Oregon Public Broadcasting, [13] and more.

Jo Rabins is married to bassist Aaron Hartman and has two children. [6] [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Steve Duin: The lyrical wisdom of Alicia Jo Rabins". OregonLive.com. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  2. ↑ Shattuck, Kathryn (2005-06-11). "Here Strides the Bride: Catskills Kitsch in Manhattan". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  3. ↑ "Arts and Jewish Experience: Exploring Diverse American Identities through Art". PSU.
  4. 1 2 "'A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff' examines the notorious financial scandal -- and what should come from it". OregonLive.com. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  5. ↑ "Music Listings". The New York Times. 2008-10-24. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  6. 1 2 3 "The Honickman Foundation: Alicia Jo Rabins, Divinity School". www.honickmanfoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  7. ↑ "Vi Khi Nao & Alicia Jo Rabins - The Poetry Project". The Poetry Project. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  8. ↑ Welsch, Camille-Yvette. "A Conversation with Alicia Jo Rabins". Literary Mama. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  9. ↑ "Alicia Jo Rabins On Her New Poetry Collection, "Fruit Geode"". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  10. ↑ "#MeToo and the Women of the Bible". Lilith Magazine. 12 November 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  11. ↑ Marmer, Jake (18 August 2011). "Four Poems By Alicia Jo Rabins". The Forward. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  12. ↑ "Finding Timely Calls to Action in Ancient Traditions". Tablet Magazine. 24 July 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  13. ↑ Meza, April Baer | Claudia. "Tales Of The Side Hustle". Oregon Public Broadcasting. Archived from the original on 28 August 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  14. 1 2 3 4 "There's a New Girl in Town | Oregon Jewish Life". Oregon Jewish Life. 2013-04-01. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  15. ↑ Pollack-Pelzner, Daniel (2021-03-18). "What 'A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff' Taught Me About Mourning". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  16. ↑ Jo, Rabins, Alicia (2015). Divinity school. Wright, C. D., 1949-2016 (First ed.). Philadelphia. ISBN   9780986093890. OCLC   903424656.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. ↑ Jo, Rabins, Alicia (2018). Fruit geode (First ed.). Brooklyn, NY. ISBN   9780999501207. OCLC   1033563731.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ↑ "New & Noteworthy". The New York Times. 2018-10-30. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-08-03.
  19. ↑ Rabins, Alicia Jo (2019-04-10). "A Passover Story". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 2019-08-03.
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