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When composer Benjy Fox-Rosen was a kid, his grandmother sang him the songs of her favorite Yiddish poet, Mordechai Gebirtig (1877-1942). “Wait a little longer, dear,” goes one of the Krakow songwriter’s most famous songs, “Reyzele.” But she wasn’t much of a singer, so, like the gentleman courting his pious lover in “Reyzele,” Fox-Rosen had to wait a while to discover Gebirtig on […]

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“Said Rav Yehuda: Even silence has its rules,” announces spoken word poet Jake Marmer at the start of his new album, Hermeneutic Stomp. Between his rhythmic poem-spitting and the frantic, tight, dazzling grooves of his backing band, Marmer’s voice becomes one instrument in a massive silence-smashing symphony. The poet is by far the youngest and newest member […]

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Imagine gritty NYC streets in the 1950s. An Irish Catholic boy falls for a Jewish girl, a Holocaust survivor and recent immigrant. Their families violently pursue each other, and it all ends in tragedy. If it sounds familiar that’s because it was the original pitch for West Side Story, the hit musical that ultimately centered on […]

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