Yehuda Amichai (Ludwig Pfeuffer) was born in Würzburg, Germany, to an Orthodox Jewish family, and was raised speaking both Hebrew and German. Amichai immigrated with his family at the age of 11 to Mandate Palestine in 1935, moving to Jerusalem in 1936. He was a member of the Palmach, the strike force of the Haganah, […]
Eating Poetry (XV)
The Numbers by Kim Addonizio How many nights have I lain here like this, feverish with plans, with fears, with the last sentence someone spoke, still trying to finish a conversation already over? How many nights were wasted in not sleeping, how many in sleep—I don’t know how many hungers there are, how much radiance […]
We Con the World
Death? Ennui? Embarrassment? (See post below.) If you’re Jewish, you gotta laugh.
In Memory, and with Thanks
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
How We Lived on It (19) – Joe Cuba
Video Compilation: mambohiphop From the New York Daily News Obituary, February 16, 2009 — Salsa pioneer Joe Cuba, who was born the son of a Harlem candy-store owner and grew up to become the “Father of Latin Boogaloo,” died Sunday. He was 78. Cuba died at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan from complications of […]