Episode 26: Playing in Parables with Mark Rubin by What the Folk

Our guest on this episode is the well-traveled, well-spoken, and unapologetically outspoken musician Mark Rubin. From co-founding the influential Americana trickster band The Bad Livers to being a leader in the contemporary klezmer scene, Mark’s storied career strands weave together perfectly in this latest release, The Triumph of Assimilation. We talk about the new album, his experiences as a Southern Jew, the intersectional fascism reboot, cultural appropriation do-nots, and Yiddish songwriter/poet Mordechai Gebirtig.

Featured music is “It’s Burning,” “A Day of Revenge“,”Royal Street Shuffle” and, just in time for Revenge of the 5th, “The Dark Side Has Doughnuts,” by Mark Rubin, courtesy of the artist.

FOLLOW MARK AND PRE-ORDER HIS NEW ALBUM
https://www.jewofoklahoma.com/

LEARN MORE ABOUT MORDECHAI GEBIRTIG

At Home with Mordechai Gebirtig
https://ingeveb.org/texts-and-translations/at-home-with-mordecai-gebirtig

"Our Town is Burning" and "A Beam of Sunlight"
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/language-literature-culture/yiddish-translation/our-town-burning-and-beam-sunlight

Mordechai Gebirtig Memorial (link is to English translated page from original Polish)
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pl&u=https://mordechaj-gebirtig.pl/&prev=search&pto=aue

Wiki Page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Gebirtig

P.S. SARAH AND JOY WERE REMEMBERING THAT THING ABOUT THE COLOR BLUE CORRECTLY!
https://www.iflscience.com/brain/when-did-humans-start-see-color-blue/