The Poetry of Lisa Alvarado
BASHERT I am the catch in your throat; the wordless cry, unexplainable. I am the cloud that follows you; raining at the slightest provocation. I am the scar that has become a flower. I am the pilgrim you brought home; the Jew you hid from the fire. I am your dark sleep. I am your [...]
Another Desert:Jewish Poetry of New Mexico
reviewed by Gloria Trujillo Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico edited by Joan Logghe and Miriam Sagan. (Sherman Asher Publishing, P0 Box 2853, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2853. 174 pages, $15, 00, paperback.) Once I picked up “Another Desert” to read, I could not put it down. The book is an intriguing and moving [...]
Daniel Levi De Barrios:Marrano Poet Laureate
•Readers of the history of crypto-Jews, secret Jews or Marranos as they are also known, (I use Marrano sparingly as it has, for me, pejorative connotations) come to understand that many of them wavered in their commitments to become permanent members of a formal Jewish community. This phenomenon repeated itself from the 16th to the [...]
Art as an Expression of Sephardic and Crypto-Jewish Identity
The Society of Crypto-Judaic Studies, like most academic organizations, devotes most of its attention to the written word, either findings from scholarly research or personal stories by descendants of the Jews of Spain and Portugal (Sephardim), many of whom had to keep their heritages and identities secret in order to survive. Poetry and dramatic plays [...]
Art as an Expression of Sephardic and Crypto-Jewish Identity:
The Society of Crypto-Judaic Studies, like most academic organizations, devotes most of its attention to the written word, either findings from scholarly research or personal stories by descendants of the Jews of Spain and Portugal (Sephardim), many of whom had to keep their heritages and identities secret in order to survive. Poetry and dramatic plays [...]
Clearing up Ladino, Judeo-Spanish, Sephardic Music
Over the past couple of decades, this music has enjoyed a timely and much-deserved renaissance. But there is a good deal of confusion about what it is called, how old it is, who sings it and how it should be sung. For Halapid readers, here is a general outline to try to clear this up. [...]
M. Miriam Herrera Poet of the Texas Border Country
Invited Artist Miriam Herrera is a graduate of the MA Program forWriters at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her poems have appeared in Albatross , Earth’s Daughters, New Millennium Writings , Blue Mesa Review , Nimrod , New Zoo Poetry Review, ArtLife , and other journals. She has taught writing at University of Illinois [...]
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