Rachel (Hebrew: רָחֵל, ModernRakhél, TiberianRāḥēl) (Arabic:راحيل) was the favorite of Biblical patriarchJacob's two wives as well as the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. The name "Rachel" is from an unused root meaning: "to journey as a ewe that is a good traveller." Rachel was the daughter of Laban and the younger sister of Leah, Jacob's first wife. Rachel was a niece of Rebekah (Jacob's mother), Laban being Rebekah's brother, making Jacob her first cousin.
Marriage to Jacob
Rachel is first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in Genesis 29 when Jacob happens upon her as she is about to water her father's flock. She was the second daughter of Laban, Rebekah’s brother. Jacob had traveled a great distance to find Laban. Rebekah had sent him there to be safe from his furious twin brother, Esau.
During Jacob's stay, Jacob fell in love with Rachel and agreed to work seven years for Laban in return for her hand in marriage. On the night of the wedding, the bride was veiled and Jacob did not notice that Leah, Rachel's older sister, had been substituted for Rachel. Whereas "Rachel was lovely in form and beautiful," "Leah had tender eyes". Later Jacob confronted Laban, who excused his own deception by insisting that the older sister should marry first. He assured Jacob that after his wedding week was finished, he could take Rachel as a wife as well, and work another seven years as payment for her. When God “saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb”, (Gen 29:31) and she gave birth to four sons.
Rachel Bluwstein Sela (September 20 (Julian calendar), 1890 – April 16, 1931) was a Hebrew-language poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1909. She is known by her first name, Rachel, (Hebrew:רחל) or as Rachel the Poetess (Hebrew:רחל המשוררת).
Biography
Rachel was born in Saratov in Imperial Russia on September 20, 1890, the eleventh daughter of Isser-Leib and Sophia Bluwstein, and granddaughter of the rabbi of the Jewish community in Kiev. During her childhood, her family moved to Poltava, Ukraine, where she attended a Russian-speaking Jewish school and, later, a secular high school. She began writing poetry at the age of 15. When she was 17, she moved to Kiev and began studying painting.
At the age of 19, Rachel visited Palestine with her sister en route to Italy, where they were planning to study art and philosophy. They decided to stay on as Zionist pioneers, learning Hebrew by listening to children’s chatter in kindergartens. They settled in Rehovot and worked in the orchards. Later, Rachel moved to Kvutzat Kinneret on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where she studied and worked in a women's agricultural school. At Kinneret, she met Zionist leader A. D. Gordon who was to be a great influence on her life, and to whom she dedicated her first Hebrew poem. During this time, she also met and had a romantic relationship with Zalman Rubashov—the object of many of her love poems —who later became known as Zalman Shazar and was the third president of Israel.
She entered a singing competition organised by Mireille Hartuch who had invited Rachel to her 'Petit Conservatoire'.
She went on to sign a contract with the Barclay Records label, and released her first (45 rmp) recording entitled Les Amants Blessés in 1963.
In 1964, she represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen with her entry called "Le Chant de Mallory", which was her greatest hit. She did not win, but scored 14 points and finished in fourth place.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis' Drafts and Nathaniel Mackey's "Mu"/Song of the Andoumboulou, each of which has unfolded over the course of several books and appeared in a wide range of publishing venues since the 1980s, are two of the longest ongoing poems being written in English today. DuPlessis read from Surge and Mackey from his recent chapbook Moment’s Omen, with some commentary on their engagement with the long poem. The event was introduced by Daniel Bouchard and Patrick Pritchett.
For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.
Date: October 29, 2015, at the Edison Newman Room, Houghton Library.
published: 13 Nov 2015
Rachel Blau Duplessis Reading Part 1
Rachel Blau DuPlessis reading with an introduction by Joyelle McSweeney in McKenna Hall, October 9, 2013.
published: 14 Oct 2013
Rachel Blau DuPlessis Reading Part 2 [10/9/13]
Rachel continues her reading in McKenna Hall on October 9, 2013.
published: 11 Oct 2013
Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Tony Lopez
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Introduced by Rachel Levitsky
Tony Lopez
Introduced by Arlo Quint
November 7, 2012
Wednesday Night Coordinator: Stacy Szymaszek
Poetry Project St. Mark's Church
www.poetryproject.org
published: 15 Nov 2012
SEMPER 2017 – Conferenza - The Long Poem - con Rachel Blau DuPlessis
SEMPER 2017 – Conference - The Long Poem: Biography and Autobiography of a Contemporary American Practice
Alle 17:00 invece Rachel Blau DuPlessis terrà una conferenza dal titolo The Long Poem: Biography and Autobiography of a Contemporary American Practice. L’autrice, partendo dall’esperienza della scrittura del suo long poem Drafts, ci parlerà di generi, tipologie e problemi di questa forma, offrendo un panorama delle questioni critiche relative al long poem.
Ospite una delle più importanti intellettuali americane, Rachel Blau DuPlessis. L’evento si svolge con la collaborazione del Centro studi interdisciplinari di genere dell’Università di Trento.
Blau DuPlessis (1941) è poeta, saggista e docente universitaria. Si è occupata di critica femminista e di poesia modernista e contemporane...
published: 22 Sep 2017
Rachel Blau DuPlessis on close reading and pronouns
The ModPo team discusses Frost's "Mending Wall."
To enroll in this free and open online course, go here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/. For an overview of ModPo, go here:https://jacket2.org/commentary/modpo-.... To watch the introductory video to the course, go here:http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88....
Rachel Blau DuPlessis' Drafts and Nathaniel Mackey's "Mu"/Song of the Andoumboulou, each of which has unfolded over the course of several books and appeared in ...
Rachel Blau DuPlessis' Drafts and Nathaniel Mackey's "Mu"/Song of the Andoumboulou, each of which has unfolded over the course of several books and appeared in a wide range of publishing venues since the 1980s, are two of the longest ongoing poems being written in English today. DuPlessis read from Surge and Mackey from his recent chapbook Moment’s Omen, with some commentary on their engagement with the long poem. The event was introduced by Daniel Bouchard and Patrick Pritchett.
For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.
Date: October 29, 2015, at the Edison Newman Room, Houghton Library.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis' Drafts and Nathaniel Mackey's "Mu"/Song of the Andoumboulou, each of which has unfolded over the course of several books and appeared in a wide range of publishing venues since the 1980s, are two of the longest ongoing poems being written in English today. DuPlessis read from Surge and Mackey from his recent chapbook Moment’s Omen, with some commentary on their engagement with the long poem. The event was introduced by Daniel Bouchard and Patrick Pritchett.
For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.
Date: October 29, 2015, at the Edison Newman Room, Houghton Library.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Introduced by Rachel Levitsky
Tony Lopez
Introduced by Arlo Quint
November 7, 2012
Wednesday Night Coordinator: Stacy Szymaszek
Poetry ...
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Introduced by Rachel Levitsky
Tony Lopez
Introduced by Arlo Quint
November 7, 2012
Wednesday Night Coordinator: Stacy Szymaszek
Poetry Project St. Mark's Church
www.poetryproject.org
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Introduced by Rachel Levitsky
Tony Lopez
Introduced by Arlo Quint
November 7, 2012
Wednesday Night Coordinator: Stacy Szymaszek
Poetry Project St. Mark's Church
www.poetryproject.org
SEMPER 2017 – Conference - The Long Poem: Biography and Autobiography of a Contemporary American Practice
Alle 17:00 invece Rachel Blau DuPlessis terrà una con...
SEMPER 2017 – Conference - The Long Poem: Biography and Autobiography of a Contemporary American Practice
Alle 17:00 invece Rachel Blau DuPlessis terrà una conferenza dal titolo The Long Poem: Biography and Autobiography of a Contemporary American Practice. L’autrice, partendo dall’esperienza della scrittura del suo long poem Drafts, ci parlerà di generi, tipologie e problemi di questa forma, offrendo un panorama delle questioni critiche relative al long poem.
Ospite una delle più importanti intellettuali americane, Rachel Blau DuPlessis. L’evento si svolge con la collaborazione del Centro studi interdisciplinari di genere dell’Università di Trento.
Blau DuPlessis (1941) è poeta, saggista e docente universitaria. Si è occupata di critica femminista e di poesia modernista e contemporanea (tra i suoi numerosi saggi ricordiamo The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice, 1990, e Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934, 2001); la sua opera poetica più famosa è Drafts, definito dall’autrice «life poem» in progress, che al momento conta 114 unità simili ai canti poundiani.
SEMPER 2017 – Conference - The Long Poem: Biography and Autobiography of a Contemporary American Practice
Alle 17:00 invece Rachel Blau DuPlessis terrà una conferenza dal titolo The Long Poem: Biography and Autobiography of a Contemporary American Practice. L’autrice, partendo dall’esperienza della scrittura del suo long poem Drafts, ci parlerà di generi, tipologie e problemi di questa forma, offrendo un panorama delle questioni critiche relative al long poem.
Ospite una delle più importanti intellettuali americane, Rachel Blau DuPlessis. L’evento si svolge con la collaborazione del Centro studi interdisciplinari di genere dell’Università di Trento.
Blau DuPlessis (1941) è poeta, saggista e docente universitaria. Si è occupata di critica femminista e di poesia modernista e contemporanea (tra i suoi numerosi saggi ricordiamo The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice, 1990, e Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934, 2001); la sua opera poetica più famosa è Drafts, definito dall’autrice «life poem» in progress, che al momento conta 114 unità simili ai canti poundiani.
The ModPo team discusses Frost's "Mending Wall."
To enroll in this free and open online course, go here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/. For an overview ...
The ModPo team discusses Frost's "Mending Wall."
To enroll in this free and open online course, go here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/. For an overview of ModPo, go here:https://jacket2.org/commentary/modpo-.... To watch the introductory video to the course, go here:http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88....
The ModPo team discusses Frost's "Mending Wall."
To enroll in this free and open online course, go here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/. For an overview of ModPo, go here:https://jacket2.org/commentary/modpo-.... To watch the introductory video to the course, go here:http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88....
Rachel Blau DuPlessis' Drafts and Nathaniel Mackey's "Mu"/Song of the Andoumboulou, each of which has unfolded over the course of several books and appeared in a wide range of publishing venues since the 1980s, are two of the longest ongoing poems being written in English today. DuPlessis read from Surge and Mackey from his recent chapbook Moment’s Omen, with some commentary on their engagement with the long poem. The event was introduced by Daniel Bouchard and Patrick Pritchett.
For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.
Date: October 29, 2015, at the Edison Newman Room, Houghton Library.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Introduced by Rachel Levitsky
Tony Lopez
Introduced by Arlo Quint
November 7, 2012
Wednesday Night Coordinator: Stacy Szymaszek
Poetry Project St. Mark's Church
www.poetryproject.org
SEMPER 2017 – Conference - The Long Poem: Biography and Autobiography of a Contemporary American Practice
Alle 17:00 invece Rachel Blau DuPlessis terrà una conferenza dal titolo The Long Poem: Biography and Autobiography of a Contemporary American Practice. L’autrice, partendo dall’esperienza della scrittura del suo long poem Drafts, ci parlerà di generi, tipologie e problemi di questa forma, offrendo un panorama delle questioni critiche relative al long poem.
Ospite una delle più importanti intellettuali americane, Rachel Blau DuPlessis. L’evento si svolge con la collaborazione del Centro studi interdisciplinari di genere dell’Università di Trento.
Blau DuPlessis (1941) è poeta, saggista e docente universitaria. Si è occupata di critica femminista e di poesia modernista e contemporanea (tra i suoi numerosi saggi ricordiamo The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice, 1990, e Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934, 2001); la sua opera poetica più famosa è Drafts, definito dall’autrice «life poem» in progress, che al momento conta 114 unità simili ai canti poundiani.
The ModPo team discusses Frost's "Mending Wall."
To enroll in this free and open online course, go here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/. For an overview of ModPo, go here:https://jacket2.org/commentary/modpo-.... To watch the introductory video to the course, go here:http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88....
Rachel (Hebrew: רָחֵל, ModernRakhél, TiberianRāḥēl) (Arabic:راحيل) was the favorite of Biblical patriarchJacob's two wives as well as the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. The name "Rachel" is from an unused root meaning: "to journey as a ewe that is a good traveller." Rachel was the daughter of Laban and the younger sister of Leah, Jacob's first wife. Rachel was a niece of Rebekah (Jacob's mother), Laban being Rebekah's brother, making Jacob her first cousin.
Marriage to Jacob
Rachel is first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in Genesis 29 when Jacob happens upon her as she is about to water her father's flock. She was the second daughter of Laban, Rebekah’s brother. Jacob had traveled a great distance to find Laban. Rebekah had sent him there to be safe from his furious twin brother, Esau.
During Jacob's stay, Jacob fell in love with Rachel and agreed to work seven years for Laban in return for her hand in marriage. On the night of the wedding, the bride was veiled and Jacob did not notice that Leah, Rachel's older sister, had been substituted for Rachel. Whereas "Rachel was lovely in form and beautiful," "Leah had tender eyes". Later Jacob confronted Laban, who excused his own deception by insisting that the older sister should marry first. He assured Jacob that after his wedding week was finished, he could take Rachel as a wife as well, and work another seven years as payment for her. When God “saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb”, (Gen 29:31) and she gave birth to four sons.