Larry Cohen Annual Lecture in Judaic Arts, featuring Jake Marmer

The Larry Cohen Annual Lecture in Judaic Arts presents “Radical Jewish Culture: From Music to Poetry,” featuring poet and performer Jake Marmer.  Brunch is included!

In the late 1980’s, in New York, a group of young musicians joined their efforts to explore the crossroads of contemporary avant-garde and traditional Jewish art forms, forming a collective that came be known as “Radical Jewish Culture”. Many of the participants – the Klezmatics, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Hasidic New Wave, David Krakauer, etc. – have long since became legendary performers, and won numerous awards and accolades.

Poet and performer Jake Marmer will speak about his encounter with the scene and the influence the group had on his work. Jake will play a few recordings and read his own, original work.

Interests: Arts & Culture
Date: 
August 30, 2015
TIME: 
12:00 AM
Location: 
Congregation Kol Emeth
4175 Manuela Ave
City: 
Palo Alto
Cost: 
free

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Organized By: 
Congregation Kol Emeth
Speakers: 
Jake Marmer
Jake Marmer is a poet, performer, and educator. His first record, Hermeneutic Stomp (Blue Thread Music, 2013), has featured jazz-klez luminaries Frank London, Greg Wall, Eyal Maoz, and Uri Sharlin, and brought together diverse poetic traditions, jazz, klezmer, as well as new and ancient improvisation techniques. It was hailed as a “soulful narrative line in counterpoint to … language-drunk abstractions” (The Jewish Week), “experience of mystic pleasures … freshly contemporary” (Shofar), and a “thought provoking debut” (All About Jazz).

His poetry collection, Jazz Talmud, was published by Sheep Meadow Press in 2012. A doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, Jake teaches at Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto, and lives in Stanford, CA with his wife, writer Shoshana Olidort, and their two children. He frequently contributes to The Forward and Tablet magazine, and is a co-founder of North America’s first Jewish Poetry retreat at KlezKanada Festival.
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