Show Notes Ways of Awe was written by Maia Brown and Shelby Handler, based on translations originally shared with the Kadima Reconstructionist Community in Seattle, WA on unceded Coast Salish, Duwamish land. All episodes edited by Maia Brown. Audio engineering by Daniel Guenther. Thank you to Ross Kirshenbaum, or Levoneh for composing our show music and to Peter Lippman, and Jimmy Austin for playing on the track, and to Jenny Asarnow for their field recordings. Thank you to the Jack Straw Cultural Center Artist Support Program, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Smart Ventures Program, and Signal Fire Coop. Thank you to Hannah Epstein for designing our promotional images. Thank you to everyone who attended our live show! Please help us make Ways of Awe Season Two possible: https://givebutter.com/waysofawe Thank you to our guests for this episode, and the sources that inspired their offerings: Shelby Handler is a writer and organizer living in Seattle on Dxʷdəwʔabš (Duwamish) land. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, POETRY, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, Massachusetts Review, Redivider, Poetry Northwest, Black Warrior Review Online, The Journal, Southern Indiana Review, among others. Shelby received their MFA in poetry at the University of Washington-Seattle and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Shelby has received support from Seattle Public Library, Tin House, the Richard Hugo House, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Mineral School, the Seventh Wave, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Gay City Arts, Asylum Arts, and the Yiddish Book Center. Shelby is on staff at Jewish Voice for Peace. Follow them @shelbeleh and shelbyhandler.com. Anna Goren is a writer and Ima living in Seattle, WA on the unceded lands of the Duwamish and Coast Salish peoples. When she's not working with nonprofits to tell stories that build support for their missions, she's singing nigguns and harmonies, growing and eating food, and volunteering with the Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice. Tzali Loren is a banjo player and Talmud lover. She is a graduate of SVARA's Teaching Kollel, and the creator of Talmidei Talmideihon, Seattle's own queer Talmud beit midrash. Stefanie Fox is a poet and the Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace. Jenny Asarnow is a queer Jewish audio producer and parent who works with communities to tell their stories through journalism, documentary, audio art, and site-specific projects. They founded KUOW’s RadioActive Youth Media and have held leadership roles at KBCS, Hollow Earth Radio, The Seattle Globalist, and the Third Coast International Audio Festival. About Saltwater Soundwalk: Saltwater Soundwalk is a sound walk and audio collage about our relationships and responsibilities towards the Salish Sea and connecting waters, centering Indigenous Coast Salish voices and language. Created by audio artists Jenny Asarnow and Rachel Lam (Anigiduwagi enrolled Cherokee Nation), this audio experience is intended to be listened to on site at Gasworks Park in Seattle, or anywhere you listen to podcasts. Commissioned with SPU 1% for Art Funds. Administered by the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture. City of Seattle, Bruce Harrell, Mayor.Devin E. Naar is an associate professor of history and Jewish studies and chair of the Sephardic studies program at the University of Washington. His first book, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece, won several awards; he is at work on a new book about Sephardic Jews in the United States. He also serves on the advisory board of Jewish Currents. For the translations of the original documents on accusations that Rabbi Israel Najara engaged in same-sex sex, the apparent ubiquity of same-sex sex at yeshivas in Salonica, and Rabbi Pallache's rabbinical decision regarding trans identity, see Noam Sienna, A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts.On the melding of Hebrew liturgy and Ottoman musical styles, see Maureen Jackson, Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of Sacred Song and listen to Ottoman Hebrew Sacred Songs(featuring Seattle Hazzan Samuel Benaroya, z'l).On Jewish attitudes in the Ottoman Empire to Zionism, including in Ottoman Palestine, see Michele Campos, Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth Century Palestine; Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh, eds., The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Entanglement in Palestine and Beyond; and Hillel Cohen, Enemies, a Love Story: Mizrahi-Arab-Ashkenazi Relations Since the Dawn of Zionism.On Leftist politics in Ladino, see Devin E. Naar, "Reclaiming the Ladino Left" and translations and recordings of Ladino socialist anthems from the Lower East Side. Finally, please note that the style used by Devin Naar to chant the Kaddish on this podcast was typically used in the Salonican custom for the Kaddish Shalem rather than the Kaddish Yatom, even though the words are the same for both. You can listen to some of his Uncle Bob's recordings here.Rachel Edelman is a poet and teacher based in Seattle. Their debut collection of poems, Dear Memphis, explores their Jewish family's displacement and belonging over five generations in Memphis, Tennessee. The English version of "Enough with the Past, Let Me Deal with the Dead" was published in Dear Memphis (River River Books, 2024). It first appeared in Narrative Magazine. Maia Brown is a Yiddish musician and dance-leader, writer, translator, visual artist and educator. Brown has a background in oral history and fine art at Oberlin College, including a Watson Fellowship to study storytelling and advocacy in South Africa and the North of Ireland. She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College. She is the founder of anti-fascist Yiddish folk-punk duo, Brivele. You can find more of their work at Der Tkhines Proyect, Open Siddur Project, Town Hall Seattle, Humanities Washington, and e-flux Architecture. Learn more at maia-brown.com The episode ends with Maia teaching a tkhine she created for tashlikh as a part of Der Tkhines Proyekt. The text, attributions and another recording of the tkhine can be found on soundcloud & The Open Siddur Project. "tkhine far tashlikh," Melody and adaptation by Maia Brown. Excerpted and adapted from “seder tashlikh” published in a 1835 tkhine anthology by Yehoshua Heshil Miro: בית יעקב Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. Thank you to our musicians whose brilliance stitched together entire evening and this episode: Peter Lippman founded the first klezmer band in Seattle, back in 1980. He now plays with Suki's KlezJam. He's been active in human rights and anti-war work since well before that time. Peter loves justice more than anything else. Jimmy Austin inherited both his first name and his first trombone from his paternal grandfather. He brings a distinctively intense, expressive, and collaborative style to a wide variety of projects around the Pacific Northwest and is particularly active in the local Yiddish music scene, organizing community music and dance programming. Laurie Andres is an accomplished piano and piano accordionist for many classical and folk idioms. His specialities include fiddle tunes of New England, English Country Danse, and Klezmer music. Laurie has played for dance and music festivals, concerts, and community dances in the United States, Canada, and Europe. 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