Podcasts about dovid katz

On today's show we are privileged to have world renowned Historian, linguist and scholar Dovid Katz, whose list of accomplishments would take the duration of this podcast to complete. Dr. Katz Was born and raised in Brooklyn. From 1978-1997 Dr. Katz taught Yiddish at Oxford University where he founded and led Oxford's Yiddish studies program. In 2001 he served as the Co-Founder and Director of Research, Vilnius Yiddish Institute at Vilnius University and from 1999-2010, as Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture. Since its founding in 2009 he has operated and edited DefendingHistory.com, a newsletter, journal and historical outlet which seeks to preserve the memory of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe by combating its denial and distortion by individuals and governments. You can check out Dr.Katz's work at his website Defending History and over on his main site, DovidKatz.net Check out all of our projects and support this podcast here --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/twotalljewshow/support

This series is sponsored by our friend, Danny Turkel. This episode is sponsored by Ari Bergmann in appreciation of Adina's work and scholarship.In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Rabbi Eric and Dr. Adina Yoffie about their journey as a family through ideological differences. Rabbi Yoffie is the President Emeritus of the Union for Reform Judaism and his daughter Adina is a Modern Orthodox editor and writer. As Adina journeyed to Modern Orthodoxy, she also had to navigate the implications of her observance to her Reform family, and how she could live by her newfound truth without disrupting her family life. - How does one best respect religious approaches other than their own?- How does one take a principled stand without making someone within their own family feel like their own lives and their own practice does not have any standing?- How did Adina's Orthodoxy affect Rabbi Yoffie's approach to Reform Judaism? Tune in to hear a conversation about seeing legitimacy in another camp at the same time while holding on to one's own beliefs and convictions. Interview begins at 16:09Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie (father) is a Reform rabbi, and President Emeritus of the Union for Reform Judaism. Since retiring in 2012, he has been a lecturer and writer; his writings have been published in The Huffington Post, The Jerusalem Post, and Haaretz. Dr. Adina M. Yoffie (daughter) is a tutor, editor, and writer living in Manhattan. She earned a Master's and PhD in European History from Harvard University and a Bachelor's in History from Princeton. She has published in the leading journals of her field and has received a Fulbright Award to Germany.Adina can be found at https://www.adinayoffie.comReferences:Mishna Halachos by Rav Menashe KleinThe Formation of the Talmud: Scholarship and Politics in Yitzhak Isaac Halevy's Dorot HaRishonim by Dr. Ari BergmannOp-Ed: Judaism is always ‘tikkun olam' — and more by Eric YoffieKosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food by Roger HorowitzThe Rebbe's Army by Sue FishkoffThe French Enlightenment and the Jews by Rabbi Dr. Arthur HertzbergThe Fate of Zionism by Rabbi Dr. Arthur HertzbergJudaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State by Yeshayahu LeibowitzWords on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish by Dovid Katz

Given in 2019

You can access the livestream on Rabbi Katz's YouTube channel, "Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz"

Support this podcast Nazis are bad! The Communists who defeated them are good! Somehow, this is massively confusing to Alberta Premier Jason Kenney! Joined by special guest Breht O'Shea of Revolutionary Left Radio, Team Advantage examines Jason Kenney's confused sense of history. Why is he such a big fan of the debunked Black Book of Communism? Are Nazism and Communism the same, as Jason Kenney proposes? Who (and what social forces) benefit from this reading of history? Thanks to Breht O'Shea of Revolutionary Left Radio for joining us. Find RLR at revolutionaryleftradio.com and on Twitter @RevLeftRadio. Further reading: Debunking: “Communism killed more people than naziism!” by Morgan Visser https://medium.com/@discomfiting/debunking-communism-killed-more-people-than-naziism-7a9880696f67 Why Are the Trump White House and Media Citing an Antisemitic Book’s Claims to Demonize Communism? by Ben Norton https://www.alternet.org/2017/11/trump-media-antisemitic-black-book-communism-whitewash-nazis/ The “Double Genocide” Theory: The New and Official Form of Holocaust Denial by Dovid Katz https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory/ Bill to remember 'Ukrainian Genocide' under Stalin treads tricky ground by Lahav Harkov https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Bill-to-remember-Ukrainian-Genocide-under-Stalin-treads-tricky-ground-540847 Edmonton monument glorifies Nazi collaborator https://www.edmontonjewishnews.com/edmonton-monument-glorifies-nazi-collaborator/

Dovid Katz talks about the Ukraine scandal from a Jewish and human rights perspective. Katz edits the web journal Defending History (www.DefendingHistory.com), which counters the Eastern European movement to obfuscate, without denying, the Holocaust. An internationally renowned expert on Yiddish, he is now working on a new online Yiddish dictionary (www.YiddishCulturalDictionary.org). His personal website: www.DovidKatz.net Esther Kampler is a Holocaust survivor originally from Czernowitz, Romania (today's Chernivtsi, Ukraine), who now lives in Brookline, Mass. We got to hear a bit about her younger years before and after the Holocaust, which claimed the lives of her parents and a brother. From our archive, previously aired October 18, 2017: Christa Whitney interviewed by Dovid Braun about the film Beyle, about the life of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, the late Yiddish activist, poet, and artist. Announcement: the film Beyle will be shown this Sunday, Nov 7, 2019, at 4:00 PM at Workmen's Circle in Brookline, with Christa Whitney at reception/talk-back following the screening. Info: http://www.circleboston.org/calendar/beyle-film-screening Announcement: Hankus Netsky and Eden Macadem-Somer will appear in a concert of Yiddish and Klezmer music Sunday, Nov 7, 2019, at 3 PM at All Newton Music School, 321 Chestnut St., West Newton, MA. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased in advance at the following link: https://www.allnewton.org/tickets/klezmer MA 02465 Music Lillian Lux: Yiddishe Mama Hankus Netsky and Eden MacAdam Somer: Vu Bistu Geven and Uncle Shloyme's Improvisation (on "Pfiyoys" from the Second Day of Rosh Hashono Musaf Amidah)/Hollender Friday Night Tune (Klezmer instrumental) Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: November 13, 2019

Join Rabbi Katz on this amazing trip to Greece, which will include a wealth of information on the history of the Jews andvthe Greeks over the last 2500 years, an encounter that has left a profound impact on both civilizations. Contact Rabbi Katz at rabbidkatz@gmail.com

In Radio Free Winnipeg's third episode on Fascism & antifa Scott and Greg interview historian John Paul-Himka about the national narratives used by Ukrainian Nationalist groups both in Ukraine and in Canada that not only glorify war criminals and Nazi collaborators but trade in historical revisionism. John Paul-Himka is professor emeritus at the University of Alberta https://www.ualberta.ca/history-classics/people/emeriti/himka Scott and Greg discuss why the Ukrainian national myths are important both domestically and in terms of wider geo-political trends as well as discuss similar trends around the western world. Why have these nationalistic narratives become more common and why do they find a wider audience today? How do Fascist groups use these narratives to their own advantage? Show Notes Ukrainian-Canadian community urged confront WWII past amid controversy over monuments   http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ukrainian-canadian-community-urged-to-confront-past-amid-controversy-over-monuments-to-nazi-collaborators  War Criminality: A Blank spot in the collective memory of Ukrainian Diaspora by John Paul-Himka https://soi.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/soi/article/view/7999/7146 Interview from 2014 that explains about the roots that gave rise to the Ukrainian far right within historical myth making https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/6283/ Fascism's Face-Lift https://jacobinmag.com/2017/12/fascisms-face-lift Reflections on Anti-Communism  https://jacobinmag.com/2017/12/anti-communism-soviet-union-united-states-miliband Article from Dovid Katz on the "double genocide theory" http://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory/ In Ukraine, Ultranationalist Militia strikes fear in some quarters   https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-azov-right-wing-militia-to-patrol-kyiv/29008036.html Bypassing official channels, Canada's Ukrainian diaspora finances and fights a war against Russia  https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/ukraine-canadas-unofficial-war/article23208129/ The US is arming and assisting Neo-Nazis In Ukraine, while congress debates prohibition http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=20942 Neo-Nazi Groups recruit Britons to fight in Ukraine    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/02/neo-nazi-groups-recruit-britons-to-fight-in-ukraine The Reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda http://thehill.com/opinion/international/359609-the-reality-of-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine-is-far-from-kremlin-propaganda?amp On Target: Canada's Warmongering in Ukraine is Dangerous http://espritdecorps.ca/on-target-4/on-target-canadas-warmongering-in-ukraine-is-dangerous Mennonites and the Holocaust https://anabaptisthistorians.org/2018/02/07/mennonites-and-the-holocaust-an-introduction/

As described by Dovid Katz, Yiddish is an extraordinarily multifaceted language: a language that is at once acclaimed as sacred and dismissed as deficient, profoundly connected to centuries of religious and cultural history yet marketed superficially, held to be dying out yet booming at an unprecedented rate. Yiddish and Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) charts the fascinating, complex course of the language, and discusses its development, spread, displacement, and how it has been threatened by pressures towards assimilation in many diverse ways. As we discuss, this history illustrates and challenges important ideas about the interplay between language, power and identity. Chris Cummins (www.crcummins.com, c.r.cummins@gmail.com) is a lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As described by Dovid Katz, Yiddish is an extraordinarily multifaceted language: a language that is at once acclaimed as sacred and dismissed as deficient, profoundly connected to centuries of religious and cultural history yet marketed superficially, held to be dying out yet booming at an unprecedented rate. Yiddish and Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) charts the fascinating, complex course of the language, and discusses its development, spread, displacement, and how it has been threatened by pressures towards assimilation in many diverse ways. As we discuss, this history illustrates and challenges important ideas about the interplay between language, power and identity. Chris Cummins (www.crcummins.com, c.r.cummins@gmail.com) is a lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As described by Dovid Katz, Yiddish is an extraordinarily multifaceted language: a language that is at once acclaimed as sacred and dismissed as deficient, profoundly connected to centuries of religious and cultural history yet marketed superficially, held to be dying out yet booming at an unprecedented rate. Yiddish and Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) charts the fascinating, complex course of the language, and discusses its development, spread, displacement, and how it has been threatened by pressures towards assimilation in many diverse ways. As we discuss, this history illustrates and challenges important ideas about the interplay between language, power and identity. Chris Cummins (www.crcummins.com, c.r.cummins@gmail.com) is a lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As described by Dovid Katz, Yiddish is an extraordinarily multifaceted language: a language that is at once acclaimed as sacred and dismissed as deficient, profoundly connected to centuries of religious and cultural history yet marketed superficially, held to be dying out yet booming at an unprecedented rate. Yiddish and Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) charts the fascinating, complex course of the language, and discusses its development, spread, displacement, and how it has been threatened by pressures towards assimilation in many diverse ways. As we discuss, this history illustrates and challenges important ideas about the interplay between language, power and identity. Chris Cummins (www.crcummins.com, c.r.cummins@gmail.com) is a lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Speaker: Dr. Dovid Katz Affiliation: Editor, DefendingHistory.com; Chief Analyst, Litvak Studies Institute (Vilnius) Title: "The Unique and 'Successful' Antisemitism in the East of the European Union" Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT Date: April 14, 2011 Description: Dr. Dovid Katz poses the question: "What is 'successful' antisemitism?" He contrasts the 'old' antisemitism with the 'new' antisemitism and notes that while there is a small group of scholars dealing with modern manifestations of antisemitism, the phenomenon is often regarded and taboo and not easily accepted.

Speaker: Dr. Dovid Katz Affiliation: Editor, DefendingHistory.com Title: “Holocaust Obfuscation: The 21st Century Version of Denial” Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: Fordham University, New York Date: December 13, 2012 Description: Dr. Dovid Katz speaks about antisemitism and the problematic situation of Lithuanian and European Holocaust history revisionism.

A collection of speeches and seminar on important topics in Antisemitism, in podcast form.