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 +====== Cokboy by Jerome Rothenberg ======
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 //The Serpent and the Fire// (pp. 640 - 644) \\ //The Serpent and the Fire// (pp. 640 - 644) \\
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-====== "Cokboy" by Jerome Rothenberg ====== 
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-===== Biography of Jerome Rothenberg ===== 
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-link to other Rothenberg articles on the wiki [[omnipoetics:total_translation_-_rothenberg|Total Translation]] 
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-===== The poem itself ===== 
 "Cokboy" brings the imagination of the eastern eauropean shtetl jew in contact with a region of the Americas far away from New York City. In the western lands of the united states where the myth of the wild west lives in the imaginations of readers of cowboy novels and spaghetti western aficionados, Jerome Rothenberg transports the Baal Shem Tov to the contact site of Western Expansion.  "Cokboy" brings the imagination of the eastern eauropean shtetl jew in contact with a region of the Americas far away from New York City. In the western lands of the united states where the myth of the wild west lives in the imaginations of readers of cowboy novels and spaghetti western aficionados, Jerome Rothenberg transports the Baal Shem Tov to the contact site of Western Expansion. 
  
-==== When it was written ==== +=====Jewish Cultural Allusions and Vocabulary=====
-[[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetry-news/65408/looking-at-jerome-rothenbergs-polish-trilogy-triptych | Possible context: Looking at Jerome Rothenberg's Polish Trilogy, Triptych]] \\ +
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-[[https://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/cokboy-15046?showmodal=de | This link says 1974]] +
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-==== Form ==== +
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-==== Interpretation ==== +
-Is this an earlier manifesto? How do we connect the commentary afterwards to the rest of the anthology / how we have received him. Can we find the interview was excerpted from? +
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-=====Terms: Let me teach you, Melamed, some Kabbalah and Chassidus through "Cokboy"===== +
 ====kabbalistic time קבלה צייט==== ====kabbalistic time קבלה צייט====
  
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 The sacred place were Moses would learn the Torah from Hashem. Rothenberg draws parallels between the indigenous tent sanctuary of the Jewish people during their nomadic period of forty years in the Sinai desert. For more on the symbolism of the tent in the Torah, especially the arrangement of the camp based on tribal affiliation visit this [[https://www.sefaria.org/topics/ohel-moed?sort=Relevance&tab=notable-sources|Sefaria source study sheet]].  The sacred place were Moses would learn the Torah from Hashem. Rothenberg draws parallels between the indigenous tent sanctuary of the Jewish people during their nomadic period of forty years in the Sinai desert. For more on the symbolism of the tent in the Torah, especially the arrangement of the camp based on tribal affiliation visit this [[https://www.sefaria.org/topics/ohel-moed?sort=Relevance&tab=notable-sources|Sefaria source study sheet]]. 
  
 +====pripitchok פריפעטשיק ====
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 +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyfn_Pripetshik]]???
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 +Here is a performance of  [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKWPE5GdRLg|OYFN PRIPETSHIK - A Yiddish Classic (Lea K & Rabbi T)]]. Lea Kalisch is a contemporary recording artist. Here is an excerpt from her youtube bio: "Lea creates eclectic, JEWCY music, blending languages and styles, like a
 +smoothie. From Hasidic to Hip Hop, Rap to Rumba, she does it all. She's a SHTETL Neshume and a Jewish glamour QUEEN.
 +Her goal: To sing in Yiddish at the super bowl with a shtreimal on her head!" 
  
 ===== Use of dialect / pidgin Yiddish ===== ===== Use of dialect / pidgin Yiddish =====
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  backwards a reverse in time\\  backwards a reverse in time\\
  toward wilderness"  toward wilderness"
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-===== other topic ===== 
-QUESTIONS I have\\ 
-What is pripitchok? Is it related to the song ---> [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyfn_Pripetshik]]??? 
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-Here is a performance of  [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKWPE5GdRLg|OYFN PRIPETSHIK - A Yiddish Classic (Lea K & Rabbi T)]]. Lea Kalisch is a contemporary recording artist. Here is an excerpt from her youtube bio: "Lea creates eclectic, JEWCY music, blending languages and styles, like a 
-smoothie. From Hasidic to Hip Hop, Rap to Rumba, she does it all. She's a SHTETL Neshume and a Jewish glamour QUEEN. 
-Her goal: To sing in Yiddish at the super bowl with a shtreimal on her head!"  
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