tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post1680286228035828082..comments2024-01-21T02:58:08.208-05:00Comments on On the Main Line: An unusual paraphrased poetic rendition of Psalm 119 by an early 20th century socialite.Mississippi Fred MacDowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734864605700159687noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-84179085854046240782011-08-12T00:21:31.057-04:002011-08-12T00:21:31.057-04:00My mistake in not realizing that Keefer's work...My mistake in not realizing that Keefer's work predates by nearly 20 years Gay Ballard's "I Am" movement... so Keefer couldn't have been a follower.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-63936206758257204062011-08-11T21:20:01.412-04:002011-08-11T21:20:01.412-04:00Grace Sanders Keefer appears to be an adherent of ...Grace Sanders Keefer appears to be an adherent of the I Am movement, and American offshoot of H.P. Blavatsky's Theosophical movement and a predecessor of many New Age movements. As an introduction to the "I Am" movement check out <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22I_AM%22_Activity" rel="nofollow">this article</a> in wikipedia. I'm ignorant of American spiritualism in the 19th century exoticizing and appropriating Jewish mysticism the way it was in Blavatsky's syncretic (and mildly antisemitic fashion) system coming out of Europe. So it's interesting and quite heartening to see a late American, proto-New Age spiritualist attempt to make such a positive contact with an offering of such beautiful creative output -- a nice reflection of the Arts & Craft movement in American book arts, to boot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-40843103192846795872011-07-28T19:30:11.224-04:002011-07-28T19:30:11.224-04:00Anything on Emanuel Sternheim? The only thing I fo...Anything on Emanuel Sternheim? The only thing I found about him is this:http://www.farhi.org/Documents/Emanuel_Sternheim.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-19821248311686969162011-07-28T06:20:11.344-04:002011-07-28T06:20:11.344-04:00S, why don't you reply to emails?S, why don't you reply to emails?A friendnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-91638824585095739882011-07-27T18:08:11.158-04:002011-07-27T18:08:11.158-04:00Incidentally, the idea of re-writing Psalms has a ...<b>Incidentally, the idea of re-writing Psalms has a long history. For example, see כהנת אברהם (1719) by Abraham Hakohen ben Shabbetai of Zante, which features lengthy poems based on all 150 Psalms. It also includes poems based on Perek Shirah, which is usually not mentioned when this book is discussed.</b><br /><br />See also Aminadav Dykman's article in the Zulai Memorialschrift.Mar Gavrielnoreply@blogger.com