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Film, Video Prayers of a Heretic: A Poetry Reading

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Title

  • Prayers of a Heretic: A Poetry Reading

Summary

  • A reading by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub from his fourth book of poems, "Prayers of a Heretic," which explores the act of heresy and the condition of displacement refracted through the language of poetry and prayer. The title character has left the Orthodox Jewish world of his youth but remains engaged with his heritage and, in particular, the practice of prayer, albeit of a less traditional kind. Many of the poems in the collection celebrate reading, books and libraries as avenues for refuge and personal reconfiguration.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2013-08-27.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Literature
  • -  Poetry

Notes

  • -  Classification: Fine Arts.
  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Yermiyahu Ahron Taub.
  • -  Recorded on 2013-08-27.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Teachers.
  • -  Visitors.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689194

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division. Prayers of a Heretic: A Poetry Reading. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -08-27, 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689194/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division, S. B. (2013) Prayers of a Heretic: A Poetry Reading. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -08-27. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689194/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division. Prayers of a Heretic: A Poetry Reading. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -08-27, 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689194/>.