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."{{Cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/12/steve_duin_the_lyrical_wisdom.html|title=Steve Duin: The lyrical wisdom of Alicia Jo Rabins|work=OregonLive.com|access-date=2018-03-09|language=en-US}} She played violin for eight years in the rock-klezmer band Golem.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/11/arts/here-strides-the-bride-catskills-kitsch-in-manhattan.html|title=Here Strides the Bride: Catskills Kitsch in Manhattan|last=Shattuck|first=Kathryn|date=2005-06-11|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-03-09|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1002&context=judaic_artist_residence|title=Arts and Jewish Experience: Exploring Diverse American Identities through Art|website=PSU}}

In 2014, Rabins performed "A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff".{{Cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/performance/index.ssf/2014/04/in_a_kaddish_for_bernie_madoff.html|title='A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff' examines the notorious financial scandal -- and what should come from it|work=OregonLive.com|access-date=2018-03-09|language=en-US}} She has performed at: Webster Hall, New York City (October 27, 2008);{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/arts/music/24pop.html|title=Music Listings|date=2008-10-24|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-03-09|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} "A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff", Portland State University (May 2014);

University of North Carolina at Asheville (March 6, 2018); and

The Poetry Project, New York City (November 26, 2018).{{Cite news|url=https://www.poetryproject.org/events/vi-khi-nao-alicia-jo-rabins/|title=Vi Khi Nao & Alicia Jo Rabins - The Poetry Project|work=The Poetry Project|access-date=2018-11-27|language=en-US}} Rabins and her work has been featured in The New York Times, Literary Mama,{{cite web |last1=Welsch |first1=Camille-Yvette |title=A Conversation with Alicia Jo Rabins |url=http://www.literarymama.com/profiles/archives/2018/12/a-conversation-with-alicia-jo-rabins.html |website=Literary Mama |accessdate=28 August 2019}} the Jewish Women's Archive,{{cite web |title=Alicia Jo Rabins On Her New Poetry Collection, "Fruit Geode" |url=https://jwa.org/blog/bookclub/alicia-jo-rabins-on-her-new-poetry-collection-fruit-geode |website=Jewish Women's Archive |accessdate=28 August 2019}} Lilith,{{cite web |title=#MeToo and the Women of the Bible |url=https://www.lilith.org/blog/2018/11/metoo-and-the-women-of-the-bible/ |website=Lilith Magazine |date=12 November 2018 |accessdate=28 August 2019}} The Forward,{{cite web |last1=Marmer |first1=Jake |title=Four Poems By Alicia Jo Rabins |url=https://forward.com/schmooze/141581/four-poems-by-alicia-jo-rabins/ |website=The Forward |date=18 August 2011 |accessdate=28 August 2019}} Tablet,{{cite web |title=Finding Timely Calls to Action in Ancient Traditions |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/266991/finding-timely-calls-to-action-in-ancient-traditions |website=Tablet Magazine |accessdate=28 August 2019 |language=en |date=24 July 2018}} Oregon Public Broadcasting,{{cite web |last1=Meza |first1=April Baer {{!}} Claudia |title=Tales Of The Side Hustle |url=https://www.opb.org/radio/programs/stateofwonder/segment/amy-miller-jodi-darby-alicia-jo-rabins-ro-tam-ben-tyler/ |website=Oregon Public Broadcasting |accessdate=28 August 2019 |language=en |archive-date=28 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828200710/https://www.opb.org/radio/programs/stateofwonder/segment/amy-miller-jodi-darby-alicia-jo-rabins-ro-tam-ben-tyler/ |url-status=dead }} and more.

Jo Rabins is married to bassist Aaron Hartman and has two children.{{Cite web|url=http://www.honickmanfoundation.org/arts/poetry/rabins.php|title=The Honickman Foundation: Alicia Jo Rabins, Divinity School|website=www.honickmanfoundation.org|access-date=2018-03-09}}

Discography

Sugar Shack (2003)
Girls in Trouble (2009){{Cite news|url=http://orjewishlife.com/theres-new-girl-town/|title=There's a New Girl in Town {{!}} Oregon Jewish Life|date=2013-04-01|work=Oregon Jewish Life|access-date=2018-03-09|language=en-US}}
Half You Half Me (2011)
Open the Ground (2015)

Filmography

A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff: The Film {{Cite web|last=Pollack-Pelzner|first=Daniel|date=2021-03-18|title=What 'A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff' Taught Me About Mourning|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/03/what-kaddish-bernie-madoff-teaches-about-mourning/618315/|access-date=2021-06-20|website=The Atlantic|language=en}}

Publications

=Books=

Divinity School{{Cite book|title=Divinity school|last=Jo|first=Rabins, Alicia|others=Wright, C. D., 1949-2016|isbn=9780986093890|edition= First|location=Philadelphia|oclc=903424656|year = 2015}}
Fruit Geode{{Cite book|title=Fruit geode|last=Jo|first=Rabins, Alicia|isbn=9780999501207|edition= First|location=Brooklyn, NY|oclc=1033563731|year = 2018}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/books/review/new-noteworthy-poetry-peter-catapano.html|title=New & Noteworthy|date=2018-10-30|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-08-03|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

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A Passover Story{{Cite web|url=https://jewishjournal.com/culture/poetry/296756/a-passover-story/|title=A Passover Story|last=Rabins|first=Alicia Jo|date=2019-04-10|website=Jewish Journal|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-03}}