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Playwright Daniel Lillford Interviewed on Art & Fine Living with Jona on Radio Shalom
Playwright, actor and director Daniel Lillford made a guest appearance on Art & FineLiving with Jona to air March 23rd and 26th, 2008. In a lively conversation, the creator of The Mystery of Maddy Heisler, to premiere at the Centaur Theatre in Montreal in late March, spoke candidly about his fascination with the two great wars of the last century, about his own family’s strife in the German-occupied Channel Islands and about the making of the mystery which was already nominated for five East Coast awards.
The play is set in rural Nova Scotia during WWII, where a young local man falls in love with an older woman who arrives mysteriously and disappears in the midst of their rapturous love affair. Years later, the young man, now an aging mystery writer, is approached by a young woman carrying a small notebook, the contents of which open an unexpected door to the past.
Art & Fine Living with Jonais produced and hosted by Montrealer Jona Rapoport. The program showcases talents in theatre, music, opera, dance, literature and visual arts, with a delightful mix and commentary on fresh classical and jazz releases. The show airs on Sundays at 7pm and on Wednesdays at 3pm on Radio Shalom 1650 AM, and shows are archived on the host’s page at www.radio-shalom.ca for downloading.
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Researching the Circus Blumenfeld by Dawn Bloomfield on January 1st, 2008 My name is Bloomfield, but my surname was originally Blumenfeld.
Bernard Malamud The Complete Stories
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $18.00
This voluminous collection spans the four decades of Malamud’s career, displaying his vast range both in style (the realism of “The Grocery Store,” the absurdism of “The Jewbird”) and in subject matter. The first stories, published in minor magazines in the early 1940s, chronicle life in Brooklyn among Eastern European immigrants; the last fictionalize the lives of famous people. In between are the stories for which Malamud is best known: “The Magic Barrel,” for example, about a rabbinical student who enlists the services of a matchmaker, and “The Silver Crown,” about a teacher seeking help for his dying father.
Perhaps less well-known are the Fidelman-in-Italy stories from the mid-1950s, which serve up a pathetically laughable protagonist: Arthur Fidelman, a would-be scholar and “self-confessed failure as a painter.” In “The Last Mohican,” Fidelman arrives in Rome with a draft of a chapter from his book on the artist Giotto. When an Eastern European refugee who has been following him around disappears—along with the chapter—Fidelman ditches his high-minded labors and spends his stay searching angrily for the beggar.
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Grammy Winner James Ehnes in Candid Interview on Art & Fine Living with Jona by jona rapoport on March 11th, 2008 Canadian violinist James Ehnes was the honoured guest on radio show Art & Fine Living with Jona, produced and hosted by Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom, a mere 24 hours after receiving the coveted Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra.
From Emma Lazarus to Allen Ginsberg to Robert Pinsky, Jews have written great American poems. But is there such a thing as “Jewish American Poetry?” What makes it Jewish? What makes it American? What are its traditions, its obsessions, and its future? Reading a handful of poems each week, this course will introduce you to a wide range of engaging, accessible, and sometimes provocative texts. No previous experience with poetry required!
Eric Murphy Selinger teaches American poetry, popular literature, and Jewish American writers at DePaul University. A graduate of Harvard University and UCLA, his publications include Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections (2000) and regular reviews for Parnassus and other journals. Selinger has worked with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Poetry Foundation to promote the teaching of poetry to young people. He leads a poetry group at the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston and his blogs on teaching and literature draw readers from around the world.
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New York Foundation for Jewish Culture News by Eyal on October 21st, 2007 The Foundation for Jewish Culture congratulates the 2007-2008 recipients of the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Fund for Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Jewish Studies.
Mimouna (or Eating Bread Again) by ASFjcla on April 16th, 2008
April 29th, 2008 at 8pm
* M I M O U N A *
(or Eating Bread Again)
at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th St.
From the moment she found God, I became a local celebrity.
Nineteen years ago, in a small wedding hall in Bnei Brak, my older sister died, and she now lives in the most Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem. I spent a recent weekend at her house. It was my first Shabbat there. I often go to visit her in the middle of the week but that month, with all the work I had and my trips abroad, it was either Saturday or nothing. “Take care of yourself,” my wife said as I was leaving. “You’re not in such great shape now, you know. Make sure they don’t talk you into turning religious or something.” I told her she had nothing to worry about. Me, when it comes to religion, I have no God. When I’m cool I don’t need anyone, and when I’m feeling shitty and this big empty hole opens up inside me, I just know there’s never been a god that could fill it and there never will be. So even if a hundred evangelist rabbis pray for my lost soul, it won’t do them any good. I have no God, but my sister does, and I love her, so I try to show Him some respect.
The period when my sister was discovering religion was just about the most depressing time in the history of Israeli pop. The Lebanon War had just ended, and nobody was in the mood for upbeat tunes. But then again, all those ballads to handsome young soldiers who’d died in their prime were getting on our nerves too. People wanted sad songs, but not the kind that carried on about some crummy unheroic war that everyone was trying to forget. Which is how a new genre came into being all of a sudden: the dirge for a friend who’s gone religious. Those songs always described a close buddy or a beautiful, sexy girl who’d been the singer’s reason for living, when out of the blue something terrible had happened and they’d turned Orthodox. The buddy was growing a beard and praying a lot, the beautiful girl was covered from head to toe and wouldn’t do it with the morose singer any more. Young people would listen to those songs and nod grimly. The War in Lebanon had taken so many of their buddies that the last thing anyone wanted was to see the others just disappear forever into some yeshiva in the armpit of Jerusalem.
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Playwright Daniel Lillford Guest on Art & Fine Living with Jona by jona rapoport on March 18th, 2008 For Immediate Release
Playwright Daniel Lillford Interviewed on Art & Fine Living with Jona on Radio Shalom
Playwright, actor and director Daniel Lillford made a guest appearance on Art & Fine Living with Jona to air March 23rd and 26th, 2008.
The following poem, by my old friend (and first creative writing teacher) Henry Weinfield, originally appeared in his chapbook The Tears of the Muses (Dos Madres Press, 2005). It will be included in his forthcoming volume of new and selected poems, which Dos Madres will be publishing, probably later this year. Last night Henry read the poem at Xavier, along with selections from his new Hesiod translation and a beautiful retelling in verse of the stories about the prophet Elijah, from the Book of Kings. Weinfield is, as far as I’m concerned, one of the greatest poets writing in English today. The fact that he writes entirely in rhyme and meter, using utterly pellucid diction and straightforward grammatical structures, makes him, to say the least, a nonesuch, and one whose work may be unacceptable to readers (mostly academics) given over to what might be called the ideology of the avant-garde. Read the rest of this entry »
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Measha Brueggergosman, Elena Bashkirova and Yannick Nezet-Seguin on Art & Fine Living with Jona in April and May, 2008 by jona rapoport on May 1st, 2008 For Immediate Release
April 30, 2008
Measha Brueggergosman, Elena Bashkirova and Yannick Nezet-Seguin on Art & Fine Living with Jona in April and May, 2008
Celebrated Canadian Soprano, Measha Brueggergosman, who is currently performing the role of Elettra in Mozart’s Idomeneo in Toronto, was a guest on the radio program.
Remembering Israeli actor 'Poli' by Eyal on December 4th, 2007 Hundreds gathered last month in Tel Aviv to pay their last respects to Yisrael "Poli" Poliakov, whose coffin was placed on stage at the Cameri Theater in the city.
Last fall, the British writer and teacher won Hadassah magazine’s Ribalow Prize for her 2005 novel “The Genizah at the House of Shepher,” as well as the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Literature for “Kafka in Bronteland,”
This week, “Genizah” bagged yet another honor when it won the first Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, an award for outstanding work by an emerging writer that carries a whopping $100,000 purse. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jona Rapoport to Represent Celebrated American Composer Lori Laitman by jona rapoport on March 3rd, 2008 March 3, 2008
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Jona Rapoport to Represent Celebrated American Composer Lori Laitman
“It is difficult to think of anyone before the public today who equals her exceptional gifts for embracing a poetic text and giving it new and deeper life through music.
What are we supposed to do with Marc Chagall? Picasso admired him as a colorist, but, on the whole, Chagall is not remembered for his painterly technique. People know him for his subjects — for his off-kilter, dreamy takes on life in a Hasidic shtetl, and for his desperately serious depictions of a very Jewish Christ on the cross. Though he was obviously a Modernist magpie — he poached his compositional tricks from a number of his contemporaries —Chagall was in essence quite conservative. He was a narrative painter, an illustrator and, as Jonathan Wilson is forced to concede in this new biography, he was often an overly sentimental artist. Nevertheless — or because of this — by force of his talent and a certain degree of historical luck, Chagall was, at the time of his death more than two decades ago at the age of 97, the best-known and most widely admired Jewish artist of the 20th century. Read the rest of this entry »
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NY Foundation for Jewish Culture E-News by Eyal on April 28th, 2007
EVENTS
Monday, April 30, 2007, 5:30pm-7:00pm
Russell Senate Caucus Room, R-325, Washington, DC
Jewish American Heritage Month Inaugural Reception And Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community, the award-winning exhibit chronicling Washington's Jewish community
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington has taken a lead by partnering with United Jewish Communities and the JAHM coalition.
New Radio Show Draws Accolades by jona rapoport on February 23rd, 2008 Art & Fine Living with Jona is the brilliant initiative of producer/host Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom in Montreal.
What Israel Means to Me
By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists
Tuesday, March 6 at 12 noon
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Measha Brueggergosman, Elena Bashkirova and Yannick Nezet-Seguin on Art & Fine Living with Jona in April and May, 2008 by jona rapoport on May 1st, 2008 For Immediate Release
April 30, 2008
Measha Brueggergosman, Elena Bashkirova and Yannick Nezet-Seguin on Art & Fine Living with Jona in April and May, 2008
Celebrated Canadian Soprano, Measha Brueggergosman, who is currently performing the role of Elettra in Mozart’s Idomeneo in Toronto, was a guest on the radio program.
Researching the Circus Blumenfeld by Dawn Bloomfield on January 1st, 2008 My name is Bloomfield, but my surname was originally Blumenfeld.
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Two hours of Pure Adrenalinic Amusement. This is the 2005 Novel by Jonathan Krumecadyk that’s now available in hardcover.
Eric Murphy Selinger teaches American poetry, popular literature, and Jewish American writers at DePaul University. A graduate of Harvard University and UCLA, his publications include Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections (2000) and regular reviews for Parnassus and other journals. Selinger has worked with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Poetry Foundation to promote the teaching of poetry to young people. He leads a poetry group at the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston and his blogs on teaching and literature draw readers from around the world.
