Rootless Cosmopolitan
Friday, December 8, 2023
Khanike 2023 - A Few Last Minute Listings and a New Music Video!
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It's khanike/xanike/hanukah/chanuka and we all need a little more light (and a little more joy.) I've put together some very last ...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Announcing My New Fall Course on Ashkenazi Folk Magic and Ritual
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Between Heaven and Earth: Yiddish Women's Folklore, Rituals, & Magic I'm so happy to share that this fall I'll be teaching m...
Friday, July 21, 2023
Remembering Theo Bikel and the American Folk Music Revival
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July 21 is the eighth yortsayt of Theodore Bikel, at least according to the western calendar. He passed in 2015, at the age of 91. Bikel le...
Monday, April 17, 2023
Everything Returns - Upcoming Event with Black Ox Orkestar, April 20
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I'm very happy to announce that I'll be in conversation with Montreal's Black Ox Orkestar on Thursday, April 20. Last year, the...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
The Many Faces of the Dybbuk
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There’s still a few days left to put the spook in Spooktober. My latest Golden City column is up now and in this one, I look at just a fe...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye (Book Talk with Barry Trachtenberg)
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I'm happy to say that the video is now available for the book talk I did with author Barry Trachtenberg for his latest, The Holocaust &a...
Who By Fire, Who By Knight of Swords
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New at Rokhl's Golden City : Jeremiah Lockwood and the revival of traditional cantorial music ...With one holy tune, one can relay the ...
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Listening Parties & Posthumous Release of The Ginzburg Geography
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Save the Date: Listening Parties & Posthumous Release of The Ginzburg Geography Come to hear new songs, sing-along with her bandmate...
Monday, March 14, 2022
On the first yortsayt of Jewlia Eisenberg, a reflection on Sarajevo Blues
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We’re coming up on the 30 th anniversary of the opening of the Bosnian war, which began, more or less, at the beginning of April 1992, and e...
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Jewlia Eisenberg and the Sphere of the Endless
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Jewish Currents, July-August 2006 The Sphere of the Endless [New York City, summer 2006. In which your faithful columnist heads to Joe'...
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