Rabbi Yehuda Halevi & Yom Kippur - by Aviya Kushner
A medieval poem for Yom Kippur--and our fraught moment--from Rabbi Yehuda Halevi.| aviyakushner.substack.com
A medieval poem for Yom Kippur--and our fraught moment--from Rabbi Yehuda Halevi.| aviyakushner.substack.com
Two great writers—one in English and one in Yiddish—with similar obsessions| aviyakushner.substack.com
A dispatch from Boston, where the fantastic poet and teacher is retiring.| aviyakushner.substack.com
Revisiting the poetry of Katia Kapovich.| aviyakushner.substack.com
Reading the great Italian poet's late poems, and finding them relevant right now.| aviyakushner.substack.com
A very modern take on an ancient prayer, especially relevant now.| On Being and Timelessness
In case you missed it on Sunday, or in case you want to listen again....| On Being and Timelessness
Honored to host Goldie Morgentaler & Kathryn Hellerstein to discuss this incredible Yiddish writer--and walk us through one of her iconic stories.| On Being and Timelessness
Two great writers—one in English and one in Yiddish—with similar obsessions| On Being and Timelessness
Two great writers—one in English and one in Yiddish—with similar obsessions| aviyakushner.substack.com
A wonderful window into the stories behind deeply moving poems and translations.| On Being and Timelessness
Poet Gail Newman and Translator, Poet, and Scholar Seth Michelson| On Being and Timelessness
On a very special poet's essay.| aviyakushner.substack.com
Poet Gail Newman & Seth Michelson in a salon about traversing language & time| On Being and Timelessness
Reading Tamara Kamenszain's "The Ghetto" and thinking about identity & language.| On Being and Timelessness
How a friend made Marie Howe's gorgeous award-winning poetry even better.| aviyakushner.substack.com
Letting Diane Wakoski lead me back to David Ignatow, surprising poet of happiness.| On Being and Timelessness
On returning to poetry and film and language--without the guilt.| aviyakushner.substack.com
The great Avrom Sutzkever on neighbors, philosophies, and the urge to survive.| On Being and Timelessness
Every Seder of my life has had a moment when my father reads a Yiddish poem by Binem Heller which begins in varsheve geto, iz itst khodesh Nissan, or “in the Warsaw ghetto, it is the month of Nissan.” But other Seders at other family tables include an Italian poem, or a translation of one, by Primo Levi, written April 9, 1982.| aviyakushner.substack.com
The experience of reading something again often leads to something new.| aviyakushner.substack.com
Reading Blood Memory -- a poetry collection by the daughter of Shoah survivors.| aviyakushner.substack.com
A walk through the center of the city at this difficult time.| aviyakushner.substack.com
