Rootless Cosmopolitan

Rootless Cosmopolitan

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 ...

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...
Sunday, January 30, 2022

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day , marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the last few ye...
Friday, August 27, 2021

Kum tsu mir (or, that time I translated Jimmy Buffett into Yiddish)

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If you've ever studied a second language, you know there's a huge difference between the skills needed for passive reading comprehen...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

In Case You Missed It....

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 My Rokhl's Golden City comes out twice a month. Are you caught up? Did you see: Talking to the Dead :  A few months ago Brooklyn witch...
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Rokhl Kafrissen is a journalist, playwright, attorney, and Jewish world gadfly in New York City.
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