Old and New Heresies: A Double Book-Launch
Old and New Heresies: A Double Book-Launch with Rodger Kamenetz, Jay Michaelson, and Basya Schechter Tue, Sep 13 2022 at Congregation Beth Elohim 274 Garfield Place Brooklyn, NY Join us for an evening of music, conversation, and performance celebrating two new books: the new, expanded edition of Rodger Kamenetz’s “The Missing Jew:Poems 1976-2022″ and the … Read more
The Missing Jew and You: Asheville Jewish Community
The Missing Jew and You: An Elul Workshop with Rodger Kamenetz and Rick Chess Where have you been? Where are you at this very moment? Where are you heading? These questions could be useful to ask ourselves at any time, but they are especially rich during the month of Elul as we prepare for the … Read more
ASTERISM
Asterism Losing infinity I saved up for immediacy. Every hour I put a penny in to see the cornflower open its eye or to hear the thunder mutter proto- names. I borrowed the pennies from the eyelids of dead sailors and paid back in summer stars I could actually name Deneb Altair Vega. Great triangles … Read more
3 Gilguls of The Missing Jew: Gilgul 2
GILGUL 2 1992 In 1992 Time Being Books re-issued an expanded edition, The Missing Jew: New and Selected Poems. I took lines from the old poems and using midrash made new poems from the old. The book now was 101 pages long. About this edition, the great novelist Louise Erdrich was kind enough to write: … Read more
3 Gilguls of The MISSING JEW: Gilgul 3
GILGUL 3: 2022 In the years since I continued to write on Jewish themes, including The Lowercase Jew which Northwestern put out in 2003. I always felt I wanted to expand THE MISSING JEW project and now in its current incarnation comes The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022 which encompasses 46 years of work. At 230 … Read more
3 Gilguls of The Missing Jew: GILGUL 1
GILGUL 1 1976 In 1976 after my grandfather David Kamenetz z”l died and my rabbi from childhood, Morris Lieberman died, my friend Dr. Marc Lieberman gave me a copy of all the volumes of the Rodkinson Talmud from his uncle’s library. I had never been exposed to the Talmud, and though the Rodkinson is an … Read more
A Poem for Tisha B’Av
The Ninth of Av –for Maggid Yitzhak Buxbaum, z”l In the rhythm of the year our temple fell. We sat low. As if we might fall again but not as far. We sat low closer to the ground. We had fallen also in the heat of August in the month of Av. Although “I know … Read more
