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'The most religiously intense street in the UK' – Sounds Jewish podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2016 33:52


In this episode broadcaster and oral historian Alan Dein eavesdrops on a day in the life of Oldhill Street in Hackney, a remarkable corner of London

Laughter in Jewish culture - Sounds Jewish podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2014 31:07


Alan Dein explores Jewish comedy through the stories of four Jews with a knack for making people laugh

Sounds Jewish podcast: Jewish hair special

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2014 34:28


Alan Dein explores the world of shampoo, shaving and the sheitl, finding remarkable stories with Jewish hair at their roots.

Sounds Jewish podcast: encounters

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2014 40:26


From steam baths to barmitzvah memories, Alan Dein digs out four remarkable stories on the theme of encounters

Sounds Jewish podcast: Chanukah – keeping the flame burning

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2013 42:02


Four stories of Jewish life on the age-old Chanukah theme of tenacity and persistence against the odds: from the Austrian-Jewish refugee who maintained a lifelong love of two sets of parents to the music enthusiast reviving the Latin flame that once burned in Jewish hearts

Sounds Jewish podcast: in the beginning

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2013 36:24


Four stories of Jewish life on the theme of beginnings, from the Hasidic woman breaking away to start a new life to the discovery of a dark family secret, from the start of a teenage night out at Edgware station to the tasting of the forbidden … a pork wonton

Sounds Jewish podcast: the Jewish revival in Poland

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2013 42:24


Writer Denise Grollmus goes on a personal journey of Jewish discovery in Poland, the country where 3 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during the second world war

Sounds Jewish podcast: Jewish Book Week special

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2013 40:05


A B Yehoshua, Judith Butler and Sam Leith join Hephzibah Anderson at Kings Place to mark Jewish Book Week 2013

Sounds Jewish podcast: Israeli elections aftermath and the Gerald Scarfe cartoon

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2013 35:08


Naomi Alderman, Yossi Mekelberg and Alexander Bodin Saphir join Jason Solomons to discuss the Israeli elections, the Oscars and the Gerald Scarfe cartoon in the Sunday Times

Sounds Jewish podcast: why it's been a good year

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2012 23:18


Robert Popper, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Jacob Steinberg join Jason Solomons to discuss why Jewish culture was on-trend this year … and why Jews love Christmas lunch

Sounds Jewish podcast: the Israel-Gaza conflict

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2012 30:08


Ian Black and Mark Gardner join Jason Solomons to discuss the eight days of conflict between Israel and Hamas in and around Gaza

A new generation of Auschwitz tattoos – Sounds Jewish podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2012 32:38


Naomi Gryn joins Jason Solomons to discuss the descendants of Holocaust survivors who are tattooing their grandparents' Auschwitz numbers on their own arms. Plus Mark Gettleson on the importance of the Jewish vote in the US presidential election

Sounds Jewish podcast: theatre director Julia Pascal

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2012 29:34


Joining Jason Solomons this month is theatre director and playwright Julia Pascal

Rafael Behr on ideas of Jewish identity in the UK

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2012 30:38


Rafael Behr, the political editor of the New Statesman, talks to Jason about the magazine's special edition on British Jewish identity; Laura Marks of the Board of Deputies of British Jews addresses sexism in the Jewish community and Francesca Segal discusses her debut novel, The Innocents, set in north-west London

Sounds Jewish podcast: memories of London's East End

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2012 29:14


From Petticoat Lane legend Mike Stern to 'bagel poet' Ben Mandelson, we pay tribute to the Jewish East End of London – recalling a lost community whose influence lives on, through its food, its personalities and its spirit

Sounds Jewish podcast: Jewish Book Week special

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2012 34:58


Joining Jonathan Freedland in a Jewish Book Week special are guests Shalom Auslander, Etgar Keret, Meg Rosoff and David Schneider

Sounds Jewish podcast: February 2012

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2012 30:26


A discussion about the growing row dividing Britain's Jews over how to relate to British Muslims; an exclusive interview with former war photographer Judah Passow, who's been documenting the faces of Anglo-Jewry; and an interview with Brooklyn-based indie band Girls in Trouble, who combine folk, underground rock – and stories from the Old Testament

Sounds Jewish podcast: Hanukah and end of year review 2011

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 43:26


In this special end-of-year edition of the show, we'll be reviewing the Jewish highs and lows of 2011 and celebrating Hanukah with sugar-laced, deep-fried doughnuts and live music in the studio from Erran Baron Cohen and Jules Brookes. With guests Jonathan Freedland and Rachel Lasserson

Sounds Jewish podcast: Israel's tent protesters

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2011 36:22


This month we look at the burning issues that fired up the tent protesters in Israel; allegations of misogyny amongst the ultra-orthodox; and political cartoons that have provoked a deluge of hate mail

Sounds Jewish podcast: Jewish new year

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2011 32:53


We take a journey of sound, music and speech to mark the 10 Days of Penitence, from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur

Sounds Jewish podcast: Food special

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2011 32:53


Jason is joined by doyenne of Jewish food Claudia Roden and leading food critic Giles Coren in this culinary special

Sounds Jewish podcast: June 2011

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2011 31:51


Jason discusses antisemitism in football with David Baddiel and Gerald Jacobs, and Jesse Eisenberg chats about his new film

Sounds Jewish: Passover special, April 2011

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2011 22:23


Comedian David Schneider is joined by Maureen Lipman, Amy Rosenthal and Rabbi Jeremy Gordon as they gather for an evening of theatre based on the seder's central theme: freedom

Sounds Jewish: Jewish Book Week

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2011 42:15


In a Jewish Book Week special Jason Solomons meets Maureen Lipman and Anne Frank's last living relative

Sounds Jewish: February 2011

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2011 30:22


Joining Jason Solomons are Hagai Segal, Middle East politics lecturer at New York University London, and playwright Ryan Craig, to discuss regional turmoil and Israel on stage and screen

Sounds Jewish: December 2010

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2010 30:29


Jason Solomons is joined by Jonathan Freedland as he reviews the Jewish highs and lows of 2010

Sounds Jewish: October 2010

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2010 31:22


This month, Jason is joined by Birds of a Feather writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran

Sounds Jewish: September 2010

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2010 40:21


In a bumper New Year edition of Sounds Jewish, Booker-shortlisted author Howard Jacobson reads from his latest novel, The Finkler Question

Sounds Jewish: July 2010

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2010 29:02


Is the pope wading into troubled waters in his relations with Jews? Plus, an important anniversary for female rabbis. Jason is joined in the studio by Peter Stanford and Miriam Berger

Sounds Jewish: May 2010

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2010 31:10


Free speech on campus, the meaning of Yiddish word broigus and a comic turn from motormouth yentas Ronna and Beverly

Sounds Jewish: April 2010

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2010 31:53


In this month's podcast, Jason Solomons is joined in studio by comedian and novelist David Baddiel and Sarfraz Manzoor

Sounds Jewish: Jewish Book Week special

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2010 27:33


Join Jason Solomons in London for Jewish Book Week: with literary stars Kathy Lette, Will Self and Jonathan Safran Foer

Sounds Jewish: Valentine's Day special

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2010 28:27


Jason Solomons visits the new Jewish Museum of London and talks Jewish dating with Miriam Shaviv and Tim Samuels

Jason Solomons talks Hanukah and boxing with David Schneider | Sounds Jewish: Hanukah 2009

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2009 34:19


Jason Solomons talks Hanukah and boxing with comedian David Schneider and singer-songwriter Sean Altman

Jason Solomons speaks to the Coen brothers | Sounds Jewish: Film special

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2009 31:59


A special edition for UK Jewish Film Festival. The Coen brothers, Inglourious Basterds and more

Sounds Jewish | October 2009

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2009 33:12


The Tories' troublesome partnership with rightwing parties in Eastern Europe. Plus, do British Jews and Muslims have more in common than they think? And beatboxing with Chasidic hip-hop reggae star Matisyahu

Sounds Jewish: September 2009

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2009 30:04


Bernard Madoff and his Jewish victims, the power of atonement and: is Leonard Cohen the most Jewish musician in the world? Jason Solomons with your monthly show

Sounds Jewish: The Jewish queens of Bollywood

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2009 30:25


Do Jewish schools discriminate? Plus Marilyn Monroe and a report on the Jewish queens of Bollywood

Sounds Jewish podcast: Politics, parenting, and misusing Yiddish

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2009 29:03


Are British Jews ending their love affair with Labour? Plus, are Jewish parents too overprotective? And why Alan Sugar's made Yiddish sexy

Sounds Jewish podcast: Eurovision hopes

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2009 30:27


A hard-hitting response to Caryl Churchill, the US 'pro-peace' lobby and a Jewish-Arab double act dreaming of Eurovision glory

Sounds Jewish: Heavy metal Jews

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2009 25:19


In Sounds Jewish for April 2009, the second coming of Bibi Netanyahu, how Jews shaped heavy metal and five ways to survive passover with agony aunt Irma Kurtz

Sounds Jewish: A special edition marking Jewish Book Week, presented by Jason Solomons

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2009 30:52


A special edition marking Jewish Book Week, presented by Jason Solomons

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