Alicia Jo Rabins


Alicia Jo Rabins is a performer, musician, singer, composer, poet, writer, and Jewish scholar. She lives in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. Her use of language and words is central to her work: "Words may be the closest we get to immortality as humans. Death has no power over those words. Geography has no power over them. They transmit something beyond any one, or any community's, lifetime." She played violin for 8 years in the rock-klezmer band Golem.
Rabins and her work has been featured in The New York Times, Literary Mama, the Jewish Women's Archive, Lilith, The Forward, Tablet, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and more.

Education

She got her B.A. in English and creative writing at Barnard College, received an M.F.A. in poetry from Warren Wilson College, an M.A. in Jewish gender and women's studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and studied for two years at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem.

Performance works

Jo Rabins is married to bassist Aaron Hartman and has two children ages 5 and 7.

Performances