Month: October 2019

Contemporary Yiddish Culture (and Podcasts!) with Sandra Fox

American Jewish History, Eastern Europe, Gender, Modern Jewish History, Projects and Initiatives

In this episode, we’re joined by Sandra Fox to talk about contemporary Yiddish culture and her Yiddish-language feminist podcast, Vaybertaytsh. The podcast recently came back for a new season, and so we’re going to be talking about the origin of the podcast as part of the development of contemporary Yiddish culture and its history.

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews on Israeli TV with Shayna Weiss

Israel, Popular Culture, Religion, Zionism

In this episode we’re excited to share a presentation by Shayna Weiss about Israeli TV titled “Black is the New Black: Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Israel, and the Globalization of Television,” and a conversation with her about Israeli television, the representation of ultra-Orthodox Jews in this medium, and why this matters as we put Israel in a global context.

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