israeli politics

this is the invitation from the Yiddish Cultural Board

הרשות הלאומית לתרבות היידיש

אירוע לציון 70 שנה לפטירתה של המשוררת אנה מרגולין

יום שלישי, כב’ בתמוז תשפ”ב,  14.6.22

 

תכנית  הערב: 

ברכות: ד”ר שרה זיו, יושבת ראש הרשות

הרצאה: “הפנים הרבות של אנה מרגולין”

פרופ’ קרן אלקלעי-גוט

תכנית אמנותית :  משירי אנה מרגולין

  • “איז די גאָלדענע פּאַווע געפֿלויגען, געפֿלויגען” – מילים: אנה מרגולין  לחן : לייבו לוין
  • “שלאַנקע שיפֿן” – מילים: אנה מרגולין לחן: רגינה דריקר
  • “געווען איז אפֿשר דאָס מײַן גליק” – מילים:אנה מרגולין לחן: מ. לײַנוואַנד
  • “איך גיי אין שאָטן פֿון דײַן לעבן” – מילים: אנה מרגולין לחן :מ. לײַנוואַנד

הסדנה לשיר היידי האמנותי ע”ש נחמה ליפשיץ בניהולה של רגינה דריקר

גלי בן- אריה  – שירה

ז׳אנה ינקובסקי – שירה

רגינה דריקר – פסנתר

 

 

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israeli politics

The feral cat we feed has not been happy with us since we went away, leaving a neighbor to leave her food.  And until everyone came down with Covid, the house was full of strangers to her – a fact that disturbed her greatly.  So today she left us a message – she crapped on our welcome mat.

Somehow I thought that agression is consistent with this country.  In general.  We all crap on the carpet of the people who feed us.

 

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israeli politics

We seem to be getting closer and closer to the problem of how can there ber a Jewish State that is a complete democracy.  Somehow my memory jumps back to 1954 the first time in school when we had to add “under God” to the Pledge Allegience.   Whose God I asked then, and I realized that the democracy I was living in was a Christian democracy.  I still don’t understand what it means.

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israeli politics

sometimes I don’t write. Sometimes even though there are vast subjects tp write about, i don’t have words, or time, or attraction.  But lately poems about the holocaust keep spinning out of me.  The two best so far are in Minyan Magazine    

but there are dozens more – closets full of them, to coin a phrase.  

they are all from my past, hearsay and actual experiences that I have blocked out – unaware of trauma, but i have blocked out may things from my life and the holocaust was just one of them.  

what others could be of similar ilk?  getting locked in a closet with a boy in third grade.  getting  caught stealing in a department store, being excluded from a class event… Similar ilk in those are things one blocks out. 

 

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israeli politics

I’ve never really felt comfortable in parades.  The other marchers are always thrilled but I always felt I was being dragged along and not making anyone else happy.  So if I don’t like them I don’t have much of a right to discuss them.  Nevertheless…

we have two parades coming up that don’t make me feel good.  The first is the Jerusalem Day flage parade.  As much as I am proud of the Israeli flag, I don’t like the idea of parading with a flag when there are others who have other flags they are not allowed to wave.  Let’s settle that issue first, and the we’ll have better reasons to wave that flag and it won’t be in their face.

The second is the gay pride parade coming up in Tel Aviv.  I know it brings in tourists, and I have been for gay pride ever since I read John Rechy’s book, City of Night in 1963.  But I’m not at all sure that anyone is convinced to accept the varieties of sexuality by the massive drag show.

So what can I say about parades?  Maybe there should be a parade of parade-dissenters… 

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israeli politics

I’ve been waiting to see the second season of “Tehran” all month.  Not for the action, not for the drama – but for the way the series handles the relations between Israel and Iran.  Here we are bombing the weapons shipments of Iran to Hizbullah and Hamas on the one hand, and on the other hand dreaming of the warm relations we used to have.  And we’re making a series about the animousity.  How complex is that?  

But I fell asleep too soon.  And missed the program I couldn’t get in the States. it’s here, but I can’t seem to get into it,

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