Alicia Jo Rabins

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 8 years in the rock-klezmer band Golem.[1][2]

Alicia Jo Rabins
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPoet
Scholar
Musician

Rabins and her work has been featured in The New York Times, Literary Mama,[3] the Jewish Women's Archive,[4] Lilith,[5] The Forward,[6] Tablet,[7] Oregon Public Broadcasting,[8] and more.

Education

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.

Performance works
  • A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff (2014)[9]

Music albums
  • Girls in Trouble (2009)[10]
  • Half You Half Me (2011)[10]

Books

Writings
  • A Passover Story[14]

Teaching
  • Portland State University, Fall 2016: Arts and Jewish Experience: Exploring Diverse American Identities through Art[15]

Family

Jo Rabins is married to bassist Aaron Hartman and has two children ages 5 and 7.[16][1]

Performances

Awards
  • 2015 Honickman Book Prize Winner[16]

References
  1. "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. Welsch, Camille-Yvette. "A Conversation with Alicia Jo Rabins". Literary Mama. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  4. "Alicia Jo Rabins On Her New Poetry Collection, "Fruit Geode" | Jewish Women's Archive". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  5. "#MeToo and the Women of the Bible". Lilith Magazine. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  6. Marmer, Jake. "Four Poems By Alicia Jo Rabins". The Forward. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  7. "Finding Timely Calls to Action in Ancient Traditions". Tablet Magazine. 24 July 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  8. Meza, April Baer | Claudia. "Tales Of The Side Hustle". Oregon Public Broadcasting. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  9. "'A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff' examines the notorious financial scandal -- and what should come from it". OregonLive.com. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  10. "There's a New Girl in Town | Oregon Jewish Life". Oregon Jewish Life. 2013-04-01. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  11. Jo, Rabins, Alicia (2015). Divinity school. Wright, C. D., 1949-2016 (First ed.). Philadelphia. ISBN 9780986093890. OCLC 903424656.
  12. Jo, Rabins, Alicia (2018). Fruit geode (First ed.). Brooklyn, NY. ISBN 9780999501207. OCLC 1033563731.
  13. "New & Noteworthy". The New York Times. 2018-10-30. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-08-03.
  14. Rabins, Alicia Jo (2019-04-10). "A Passover Story". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 2019-08-03.
  15. "Arts and Jewish Experience: Exploring Diverse American Identities through Art". PSU.
  16. "The Honickman Foundation: Alicia Jo Rabins, Divinity School". www.honickmanfoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  17. Times, The New York (2008-10-24). "Music Listings". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  18. "Vi Khi Nao & Alicia Jo Rabins - The Poetry Project". The Poetry Project. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
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