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The soundtrack to What Was Forbidden would include works of some of the composers featured in the YouTube videos listed below (in no particular order). Barbara Strozzi (1619- 1677) Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678) Giovanni Girolamo (Johannes H.) Kapsberger (c. 1580 –1651) Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676) Giovanni Paolo Cima (1575-1630) Marco Uccellini (1603-1680) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkopCJmS4-4 Isabella Leonarda (1620 –1704)…
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This piece was originally going to begin by asking, who put the mess in messiah? Instead, it’s about who took the mess out of messiah. The scholar Gershom Scholem’s (1897-1982) life’s work centered on thinking about and making sense of how Kabbalah has affected Judaism and what the messiah means to Jews. It’s no joke…
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In Jeyran Main’s review of What Was Forbidden, she wrote, “… it is Yehudit’s arc that gives the novel its emotional weight. Her quiet grief, her refusal to be silenced by the men around her, and her courage to confront the hypocrisy within her own community create a deeply compelling portrait of feminine strength in…
What Was Forbidden 