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Latest podcast episodes about Isaac Bashevis Singer

mindfulness, meditación, libertad por ilana ospina
Visualización Naturaleza Plena

mindfulness, meditación, libertad por ilana ospina

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 18:11


Hoy les relato un extracto de la historia titulada «Viernes corto» de Isaac Bashevis Singer sobre una pareja mayor judía que celebra el Sabbath con devoción tranquila. Luego meditamos visualizando la naturaleza serena y plena.

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast
Episode 390: Isaac Bashevis Singer: Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 27:09


This week on "The Shmooze," writer, translator, and literary scholar David Stromberg. In a wide-ranging conversation, David talks about his recently released translation of "Isaac Bashevis Singer: Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: A Spiritual Reappraisal, 1946–1955" (White Goat Press) and sheds light on Bashevis's lesser-known nonfiction, which he has translated and edited for this collection of Singer's writings. Episode 390 April 23, 2025 Amherst, MA

Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
Zalmen Mlotek and Steven Skybell

Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2025 27:31


“Isaac Bashevis Singer called my mother the Sherlock Holmes of Yiddish songs,” says Zalmen. His family heritage and Steven's splendid singing were big factors in the triumph of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish. Presented by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

As It Happens from CBC Radio
What NASA learned by getting closer to the sun than ever

As It Happens from CBC Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2024 49:54


Plus: We reach the man who helped make the bald eagle…finally…the official bird of the United States. And our holiday readings continue. In this episode we bring you Al Maitland's reading of Zlateh the Goat by Isaac Bashevis Singer. 

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast
Episode 385: Bashevis's Demons

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2024 26:04


Direct from engagements in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, Shane Baker and Miryem-Khaye Seigel sat down with "The Shmooze" to talk about their latest collaboration, "BASHEVIS'S DEMONS." The performance includes three short stories by legendary Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer. It makes its official Off-Broadway bow at Theatre 154, 154 Christopher Street (between Greenwich and Washington Streets), with performances beginning December 18, 2024, through January 5, 2025. "BASHEVIS'S DEMONS" will be presented by the Congress for Jewish Culture in association with Out of the Box Theatrics and ChaShaMa. Tickets are available at https://congressforjewishculture.org/bashevisdemons. Episode 385 December 11, 2024 Amherst, MA

No Stupid Questions
217. What Happens When You Put on a Costume?

No Stupid Questions

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2024 40:45


Would you steal Halloween candy? Should people be required to identify themselves online?  And why did Angela go trick-or-treating in a trash bag?  SOURCES:Hajo Adam, professor of management at the University of Bath.Marianna Cerini, journalist.Edward Diener, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Illinois.Adam Galinsky, professor of leadership and ethics at Columbia Business School.J. Nathan Matias, assistant professor at the Cornell University Departments of Communication and Information Science.Lisa Morton, paranormal historian and author.Isaac Bashevis Singer, 20th-century Polish-American author.Philip Zimbardo, professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University. RESOURCES:"Halloween Was Once So Dangerous That Some Cities Considered Banning It," by Christopher Klein (History, 2023)."Why Do People Sometimes Wear an Anonymous Mask? Motivations for Seeking Anonymity Online," by Lewis Nitschinsk, Stephanie J. Tobin, Deanna Varley, and Eric J. Vanman (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2023)."From Pagan Spirits to Wonder Woman: A Brief History of the Halloween Costume," by Marianna Cerini (CNN, 2020)."The Real Name Fallacy," by J.Nathan Matias (Coral, 2017)."Can Your Employees Really Speak Freely?" by James R. Detert and Ethan Burris (Harvard Business Review, 2016)."'Mask Index' Helps Predict Election Day Outcome," by Adriana Diaz (CBS Evening News, 2016)."Enclothed Cognition," by Hajo Adam and Adam D. Galinsky (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2012)."Effects of Deindividuation Variables on Stealing Among Halloween Trick-or-Treaters," by Edward Diener, Scott C. Fraser, Arthur L. Beaman, and Roger T. Kelem (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1976)."The Human Choice: Individuation, Reason, and Order Versus Deindividuation, Impulse, and Chaos," by Philip G. Zimbardo (Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1969). EXTRAS:"What Is Evil?" by No Stupid Questions (2024)."How to Maximize Your Halloween Candy Haul," by Freakonomics Radio (2012).

Eating the Fantastic
Episode 237: Jeffrey Ford's Return

Eating the Fantastic

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2024 112:54


Chow down on cheesy garlic bread with award-winning writer Jeffrey Ford as we discuss why writing has gotten more daunting (but more fun) as he's gotten older, the difficulties of teaching writing remotely during a pandemic, how he often doesn't realize what he was really writing about in a story until years after it was written, the realization that made him write a sequel to Moby-Dick, why if you have confidence and courage you can do anything, the music he suggests you listen to while writing, the reason he thinks world building is a "stupid term," the advice given to him by his mentor John Gardner, how the writing of Isaac Bashevis Singer taught him not to blink, why he prefers giving readings to doing panels, the writer who advised him if everybody liked his stories it meant he was doing something wrong, and much more.

United Public Radio
Fika With Vicky - Reva Leah Stern - The Water Buffalo That Shed Her Girdle & The Prescott Journals

United Public Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2024 72:05


Fika with Vicky Welcomes Guest Author Reva Leah Stern to episode 78 Reva has been a writer, editor, director & designer, working in Florida, Kansas City, Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles & Toronto. We'll be discussing all of Reva's work, but focussing on her creative non-fiction The Water Buffalo That Shed Her Girdle and her mystery/thriller The Prescott Journals. Yes, I've read them both and felt drawn in by Reva's world creating. They're about life…the unspeakable, the unbearable, as well as the moving on, finding humour and even scandals. Though I think the most scandalous thing of all is that Reva drinks decaffeinated coffee. Imagine! About The Prescott Journals - Secrets run deep in the small town of Prescott, and Sarah Berman, an intrepid city reporter, has stumbled into a culvert of horrendous secrets, vile crimes, and abhorrent antisemitism, in her old hometown. Acting on an irrepressible impulse, she travels there to get the story and get out fast. But she soon learns, it's not that simple. As she reconnects with her past, stories of pain and terror arise and move to the forefront of her riveting investigation. About The Water Buffalo That Shed Her Girdle - Rachel Morganstein forages through her library of muddled thoughts to try and find some semblance of sanity in the odd turn her life has taken. She has just discovered that her youngest child, Aaron, is about to get married and she has not been invited. In the twenty-two years of living at home with his mother and siblings it was never apparent that such a volcanic reaction was brewing in Aaron's mind or heart. But, at twenty-three, hell erupted and Rachel was dubbed Satan. While pondering the depth of her son's rejection, Rachel begins to scrutinize her own childhood memories in the hope of finding a clue as to what could cause such vitriol to surface after so many years. The tumultuous train wreck of Rachel's life steams down the track carrying us through tunnels of dry wit, untapped sadness and sanguine arrivals. This Water Buffalo has indeed stepped away from the herd while searching for an oasis. About Reva - Ms. Stern was Artistic Director of a Toronto theatre for over twenty years. She has been a Guest Director in Florida, Kansas City, Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles and has collaborated with such notable writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Arthur Marx, William Gibson, and Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey. She has written & directed several original stage plays, and has directed, produced, & designed over 100 plays & directed over 40 television series episodes. Ms. Stern was Regional Casting Director for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and Los Angeles from 1975 to 1993. She has been a guest speaker at esteemed venues such as The University of Miami, the Actor Workshop, New Play Festival in New York City, & the Playwright Conference at the University of Pittsburgh. She's been privileged to edit many notable writers of screen, stage, and Novels. Her writing and publishing credits include magazines, journals, anthologies, & newspapers including the National Post, Globe and Mail, and Toronto Star. She is the published author of a creative non-fiction, “The Water Buffalo That Shed Her Girdle.” Her second, a mystery novel, “I Say My Name,” was launched in the summer of 2021. Her latest mystery/thriller, The Prescott Journals,; andwas optioned for the screen by a US producer and was published in May of 2023. Her next project is a collection of short stories, “The Strange Spectrum of Mysterious Mishaps.”

AL AIRE, crónicas, cuentos y relatos.
GIMPEL, EL TONTO. de Isaac Bashevis Singer_Audiocuento

AL AIRE, crónicas, cuentos y relatos.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2024 46:32


Gimpel es el tonto que todos ponemos como cordero de sacrifico para ocultar nuestra tontería. Gimpel cree lo que quiere creer. ¿Estamos seguros que lo que creemos es lo que es o solo es la ilusión de nuestros deseos? ¿Es la realidad lo que creemos o es lo que queremos creer? ¿Quién es el tonto? ¿Gimpel o acaso todos somos unos ilusos que vivimos engañados primero por fuerza y luego por decisión propia? Solo cuando somos Gimpel, comprendemos, pero lo callamos... No hagan olas...no hagan olas...pues todos somos azuzadores y Gimpel a la vez. Bienvenidos.

Hell Is A Musical
054 - Yentl ("Arson: The Gentleman's Crime") (w/ David Allen Prescott)

Hell Is A Musical

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2024 92:29


Yentl is a 1983 film directed and starring screen actor and Broadway mainstay Barbra Streisand. Based on the Isaac Bashevis Singer short story Yentl The Yashiva Boy, Yentl the film follows the story of an Ashkenazi Jewish woman in Poland in 1904 who decides to disguise herself as a man so that she can receive an education in Talmudic law. Various misunderstandings follow as the titular Yentl attempts to keep her ruse afloat, and gets wrapped up in romances both unrequited and reluctant. The film also featured a supporting cast of Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving, Nehemiah Persoff, and Miriam Margolyes, among various others.On a new episode of Hell Is A Musical, Lilz and Scott take in a viewing of Yentl with all-star guest David Allen Prescott, who is incredibly upset to both find a Barbra film that doesn't hold up, and never fully embraces its own latent queerness. Join them as Scott gives the behind-the-scenes scoop on just how much Barbra Streisand whiffed the subject matter, Lilz puts her foot down against the music of Stevland Hardaway Morris, and David debuts a raunchy and unwelcome new personae....with Lilz and Scott!

Le goût du monde
Cuisine juive à New York

Le goût du monde

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2024 29:00


New York : à Ellis Island, dans la baie de l'Hudson, sur les terres de ce qui était, lors de la Nouvelle Amsterdam, les immigrés sont arrivés avec leurs cuisines, leurs spécialités, leur histoire, et leurs histoires. Les traditions séculaires ont perduré, d'autres saveurs et parfums se sont ajoutés sans supplanter les initiales, chose rare. New York est à la fois devenu spontanément un conservatoire culinaire historique juif et un exemple de mixité ! L'autre image qu'elle suggère est celle d'un mariage réussi au sein duquel chacun, dans le couple, garde son identité et ses racines, l'enfant né de leur union donne lui une suite nouvelle à leur histoire sans oublier d'où il vient.Il fallait une ville nouvelle, une page blanche, et libre pour s'affranchir, créer sans renier, faire perdurer les traditions séculaires avec une singularité nouvelle, la mixité et le grand bouillon de culture : New York.Avec Annabelle Schachmes, journaliste, social media addict, autrice, entre la cuisine juive, les petits plats mijotés ou encore cuisine italienne et street food, son dernier livre « Cuisine juive à New York » est publié aux éditions Hachette Cuisine. Pour la suivre sur les réseaux, Instagram.  Reportage chez Janet by Homer, avenue Victor Hugo à Paris, New York sans prendre l'avion et le meilleur pastrami de la ville ! Tout est fait maison, le pain, les sauces, les saumures, le pastrami coupé minute, juteux, fondant, savoureux ! Moïse Sfez est le fondateur de Janet, ce deli prénommé comme sa grand-mère pour respecter la tradition new-yorkaise, et de Homer Lobster, son aîné pourvoyeur de somptueux sandwichs au homard, comme à Boston. Pour aller plus loin- Isaac Bashevis Singer. Ombres sur l'Hudson, éditions Mercure de France, Au tribunal de mon père, éditions Livre de poche, Zlateh la chèvre et autres contes, éditions Larousse.- The bialy eaters, the story of a bread and a lost world, de Mimi Sheraton- Le livre de la cuisine juive, de Claudia Roden, Flammarion- Le livre de la cuisine juive, de Leah Koenig, éditions Phaïdon- La cuisine américaine, de Constance Bordes et Sheila Malovany-Chevalier. Hermé. Sur un air de : - Rhapsody in blue, de Gerschwin- La première minute de Manhattan, de Woody Allen (1979)- Laga, de Sahra Algan chez Danaya Music, 2024. En images  

Le goût du monde
Cuisine juive à New York

Le goût du monde

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2024 29:00


New York : à Ellis Island, dans la baie de l'Hudson, sur les terres de ce qui était, lors de la Nouvelle Amsterdam, les immigrés sont arrivés avec leurs cuisines, leurs spécialités, leur histoire, et leurs histoires. Les traditions séculaires ont perduré, d'autres saveurs et parfums se sont ajoutés sans supplanter les initiales, chose rare. New York est à la fois devenu spontanément un conservatoire culinaire historique juif et un exemple de mixité ! L'autre image qu'elle suggère est celle d'un mariage réussi au sein duquel chacun, dans le couple, garde son identité et ses racines, l'enfant né de leur union donne lui une suite nouvelle à leur histoire sans oublier d'où il vient.Il fallait une ville nouvelle, une page blanche, et libre pour s'affranchir, créer sans renier, faire perdurer les traditions séculaires avec une singularité nouvelle, la mixité et le grand bouillon de culture : New York.Avec Annabelle Schachmes, journaliste, social media addict, autrice, entre la cuisine juive, les petits plats mijotés ou encore cuisine italienne et street food, son dernier livre « Cuisine juive à New York » est publié aux éditions Hachette Cuisine. Pour la suivre sur les réseaux, Instagram.  Reportage chez Janet by Homer, avenue Victor Hugo à Paris, New York sans prendre l'avion et le meilleur pastrami de la ville ! Tout est fait maison, le pain, les sauces, les saumures, le pastrami coupé minute, juteux, fondant, savoureux ! Moïse Sfez est le fondateur de Janet, ce deli prénommé comme sa grand-mère pour respecter la tradition new-yorkaise, et de Homer Lobster, son aîné pourvoyeur de somptueux sandwichs au homard, comme à Boston. Pour aller plus loin- Isaac Bashevis Singer. Ombres sur l'Hudson, éditions Mercure de France, Au tribunal de mon père, éditions Livre de poche, Zlateh la chèvre et autres contes, éditions Larousse.- The bialy eaters, the story of a bread and a lost world, de Mimi Sheraton- Le livre de la cuisine juive, de Claudia Roden, Flammarion- Le livre de la cuisine juive, de Leah Koenig, éditions Phaïdon- La cuisine américaine, de Constance Bordes et Sheila Malovany-Chevalier. Hermé. Sur un air de : - Rhapsody in blue, de Gerschwin- La première minute de Manhattan, de Woody Allen (1979)- Laga, de Sahra Algan chez Danaya Music, 2024. En images  

Little Known Facts with Ilana Levine
Episode 399 - Gordon Greenberg

Little Known Facts with Ilana Levine

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2024 35:30


Gordon Greenberg has directed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in London's West End, written for television and stage, and developed, directed and produced new works for arts institutions across America. Current Directing/Writing projects include The Heart of Rock and Roll , which opens on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre in April, 2024, following its record breaking run at The Old Globe, the hit Off-Broadway show Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors (Director & Co-Writer, with Steve Rosen, New World Stages & podcast starring John Stamos, Laura Benanti, & Annaleigh Ashford), a new musical about Picasso (directing & co-writing with Stephen Schwartz & Caridad Svich), the NBC television series Most Talkative (Co-Executive Producer/Writer, NBC, Blumhouse, Andy Cohen), Crime and Punishment, A Comedy (directing & co-writing with Steve Rosen) for the Old Globe, a London revival of The Baker's Wife (Menier Choclate Factory, 2024), Single White Female (A.T.G.), The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee, Hua Musicals, Taiwan), Ghost Tour, The Play, and the new comedy podcast series Rolling Calls starring Julie Halston & Richard Kind (co-writer, Steve Rosen). His acclaimed revival of Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf starring Calista Flockhart and Zachary Quinto at the Geffen Playhouse won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Revival. Variety called it “Inspired”, the L.A. Times called it “Unerringly good…Qunto & Flockhart expose something infinitely fragile in Edward Albee's shatterproof play”, Entertainment Weekly called it “A riveting production…brilliantly staged by Gordon Greenberg”, and the Wall Street Journal called it “Intriguing…Here, unusually, there is the suggestion that the oncoming dawn may truly presage a fragile new beginning.”  Other directing work includes the revisal of Working (Drama Desk Award, adapted with Stephen Schwartz and Lin-Manuel Miranda), Jacques Brel…(Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Award noms), Terms of Endearment with Alfred Molina & Calista Flockhart (Geffen Playhouse for Greg Berlanti), the stage adaptation of Tangled (Disney), Johnny Baseball (Williamstown), Stars of David by Jeanine Tesori, Tom Kitt, Tony Kushner (Daryl Roth), Pirates! (created with Nell Benjamin, Huntington, Paper Mill, Goodspeed, MUNY), Band Geeks! (also co-writer, Goodspeed, NEA grant), The Baker's Wife (Paper Mill, Goodspeed), 1776 (Paper Mill), Floyd Collins (Signature), the Klezmer-Rock reimagining of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Yentl (Asolo Rep), Blue Sky Boys by Deborah Breevort (Capital Rep.), the professional premiere of Edges The Musical (Capital Rep.), the acclaimed reimagining of Jesus Christ, Superstar starring Billy Porter (Helen Hayes, St. Louis MUNY), the U.S. national tour of Guys & Dolls, Disney's Believe, the Disney Fantasy Christening (with Neil Patrick Harris & Jerry Seinfeld), West Side Story (MUNY, Circle Award nom), Happy Days, A New Musical (Paper Mill, Goodspeed, U.S. National Tour), Vanities, A New Musical (Theatreworks Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Award), We The People (Lucille Lortel Theatre & Paper Mill Playhouse), Rags (Roundabout, workshop), and the all-female workshop of Man of La Mancha (Mirvish, Toronto), Other writing work includes, for television, Herbie Rebooted for Disney, Emerald City Music Hall, an original movie musical for Nickelodeon Television and Scramble Band, an original movie musical for the Disney Channel, The Single Girls Guide (co-writer Tommy Newman) for Dallas Theatre Center, Ars Nova, Capital Rep, the podcast Theatre Camp (with Jonathan Marc Sherman) for Sirius XM, Killing Time (with Steve Rosen), an At Home Play Commission from The Old Globe, and the new book of Meet Me In St. Louis for the St. Louis MUNY's 100th Anniversary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

SBS Hebrew - אס בי אס בעברית
A New Theatrical Adaptation for 'Yentl'

SBS Hebrew - אס בי אס בעברית

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2024 9:51


Gary Abrahams talks about 'Yentl'. Gender identity, religious and sexual politics, and traditional Yiddish culture collide in this bold and contemporary adaptation by Gary Abrahams, Elise Hearst and Kadimah Yiddish Theatre Artistic Co-Directors Galit Klas and Evelyn Krape. This new stage adaptation of Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's iconic short story ‘Yentl', is the first new adaptation since the pop culture phenomenon that was Barbra Streisand's 1983 musical film.

il posto delle parole
Marina Morpurgo "La nuova Russia"

il posto delle parole

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2024 28:17


Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.Marina Morpurgo"La nuova Russia"Israel Joshua SingerAdelphiwww.adelphi.itPrima edizione mondialeTraduzione di Marina MorpurgoCon una Nota di Francesco M. CataluccioA cura di Elisabetta ZeviÈ l'autunno del 1926 quando Israel Joshua Singer, su invito del direttore del «Forverts» − quotidiano yiddish di New York −, si reca in Unione Sovietica per un reportage che lo impegnerà diversi mesi. «Queste immagini e impressioni sono state scritte di getto, sul momento, come accade nei viaggi» dirà, non senza understatement, a commento del suo lavoro, che invece costituisce una testimonianza eccezionale, per molti versi unica. Perché Singer, che aveva osservato a fondo il paese dei soviet già nel pieno della tempesta rivoluzionaria, non solo ci mostra ora uno scenario drasticamente mutato, ma coglie in nuce, con occhio penetrante, quelli che saranno i tratti peculiari del regime staliniano: la burocrazia imperante, la pervasività dell'apparato poliziesco, gli ideali comunisti sempre più di facciata, i rigurgiti antisemiti. Percorrendo le campagne bielorusse e ucraine punteggiate di fattorie collettive e colonie ebraiche, visitando le principali città del paese – Mosca, «grande, straordinaria e bellissima»; Kiev, che «non riesce ad accettare il nuovo ruolo di città di provincia»; Odessa, «cortigiana esuberante» divenuta «profondamente osservante e devotamente socialista» –, immergendoci in una prodigiosa polifonia di testimonianze, Singer ci restituisce un quadro vivido e composito, pieno di chiaroscuri, della nascente società sovietica. E porta così alla luce le feroci contraddizioni che proliferano sotto lo sguardo vigile e ubiquo delle nuove icone laiche del «santo Vladimir».«Per me non era solo il fratello maggiore, ma un padre spirituale e un maestro» (Isaac Bashevis Singer).Israel Joshua Singer, è nato a Bilgoraj, in Polonia, nel 1893. Fratello maggiore di Isaac (premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1978), ha vissuto in Polonia e in Unione Sovietica ed è emigrato nel 1934 negli Stati Uniti, dove è morto nel 1944. Ingiustamente trascurato e messo in ombra dalla fama del fratello, è stato prolifico e grande autore di romanzi e racconti in lingua yiddish, introducendo nella narrativa yiddish elementi innovativi e caratteristici del suo stile: i diversi livelli di trame e sottotrame, l'ampio respiro delle vicende, i continui ribaltamenti dei piani e dei punti di vista, nonché le indimenticabili gallerie di personaggi.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.it

Crónicas Lunares
El mago de Lublin - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Crónicas Lunares

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2024 3:20


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Instant Trivia
Episode 1109 - 3-name the author - "et" al. - Butler - Classic tv drama episodes - The 5 families

Instant Trivia

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2024 6:46


Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1109, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 3-Name The Author 1: "Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out". Louisa May Alcott. 2: "Kidnapped". Robert Louis Stevenson. 3: "The Deerslayer". James Fenimore Cooper. 4: "The Maine Woods", published posthumously in 1864. Henry David Thoreau. 5: "The Magician of Lublin". Isaac Bashevis Singer. Round 2. Category: Et Al.. With Et in quotation marks 1: Stones do it to tools and smells do it to appetites. whet. 2: In proofreading it means "don't delete". a stet. 3: It can mean a temporary bed or a movers' platform. a pallet. 4: It used to mean to hinder, as in a serve that grazes the net. let. 5: Owners of these pets usually remove the animals' scent glands. ferrets. Round 3. Category: Butler 1: Carson, the butler on this TV show, said, "Keeping up standards is the only way to show the Germans... they will not beat us". Downton Abbey. 2: On TV 6'9" Ted Cassidy played this "Addams Family" butler. Lurch. 3: "Some men just want to watch the world burn", says this butler in a 2008 film. Alfred. 4: The name of this butler to Frank-N-Furter in "Rocky Horror" sounds like he's one of the lowest class of people. Riff-Raff. 5: "The Third" incarnation of this "colorful snake" finds Rowan Atkinson playing butler to Prince George. Blackadder. Round 4. Category: Classic Tv Drama Episodes 1: "Jessica Behind Bars". Murder, She Wrote. 2: 1964:"Ponderosa Matador". Bonanza. 3: 1963:"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet". The Twilight Zone. 4: "Ewing vs. Ewing". Dallas. 5: "The Trouble with Tribbles". Star Trek. Round 5. Category: The 5 Families 1: Original surname of the first and third prime ministers of India. Nehru. 2: Beginning with Henry VII, this family ruled England from 1485 to 1603. the Tudors. 3: Every year from 1947 to 2011, a member of this family served in Congress; in 2013 the family began a new streak. the Kennedys. 4: The Newhouse publishing family started with the Bayonne Times and now owns this "Glamour" -ous magazine concern. Condé Nast. 5: Holy Roman Empire! This ruling family sat in the emperor's chair almost uninterrupted from 1438 to 1806. the Hapsburgs. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

Writing Fiction
Bridging the Creative Gap

Writing Fiction

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2023 20:38


In this episode, Regina and James dissect the following quote from Isaac Bashevis Singer: "Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.”Isaac Bashevis Singer's Wikipedia page About This Podcast:From the Office of Demonology & Regina's Haunted Library, Book Worms Horror Zine editors Regina Saint Claire and James Ippoliti offer tips on writing for the horror genre to help authors get published in the Book Worms Horror Zine. A great zine needs great fiction and since we are seeking great horror fiction for Book Worms, we created this podcast to give authors advice for writing and submitting.Buy Book Worms on our Etsy pageContact Us:Email (not for submissions): bookwormshorrorzine@gmail.comSubmit your short story (up to 1500 words) to:La Regina Studio, Grundy Commons, 925 Canal Street, Bristol, PA 19007Join us on social to chat Book Worms HorrorAnd for more Book Worms, check out our Instagram for behind-the-scenes of the show and to interact with us every single day.Regina's Haunted Library YouTube ChannelThe Office of Demonology YouTube Channel (James' Channel)The Real Demons of Pop Culture PodcastJames on TikTokMentioned in this episode:CreepyCrateAd06_26_23First Ad This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jamesippoliti.substack.com

You Just Have To Laugh
483. Taking Miracles Seriously - a journey to everyday spirituality.

You Just Have To Laugh

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2023 37:50


An accomplished storyteller with a refreshing, humorous voice, Rabbi Zedek draws on a range of materials including biblical tales, Indian and Japanese folklore, the works of St. Augustine, Einstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Groucho Marx to take readers on a truly original search for spiritual sustenance in everyday life. Readers will learn how to identify and appreciate the miraculous in an often mundane world; how to take God seriously when much of the intellectual world doesn't; and how to make the most out of underutilized spiritual resources such as poetry and prayer. Heartfelt and amusing, Taking Miracles Seriously is a master course on how to craft an enriched and enriching spiritual life. Order on amazon: Taking Miracles Serioulsy - Rabbi Michel Zedek

il posto delle parole
Marino Freschi "Max e Flora" Isaac Bashevis Singer

il posto delle parole

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2023 24:25


Marino Freschi"Max e Flora"Isaac Bashevis SingerAdelphihttps://adelphi.itA Max basta vederla, quella Rashka appena quindicenne, per rimanerne abbagliato. E dire che finora tutto filava liscio: lui e la sua bella Flora, moglie e amica, complice e amante, sono tornati a Varsavia per procurarsi della «merce» per la loro fabbrica di borsette – in realtà, carne fresca per il florido bordello che gestiscono a Buenos Aires. Appena arrivati, si sono immersi, come un tempo, nel mondo di via Krochmalna, cuore pulsante del ghetto di Varsavia, sorta di corte dei miracoli, dove, all'inizio del Novecento, aleggia ancora un buon «odore di birra, mostarda, bagel caldi e pretzel» e trafficano i loro vecchi amici, gente come Meir Panna Acida, Leah Lingualunga, Itche il Guercio e Srulke il Tonto. Ma, come recita un antico detto yiddish, «dieci nemici non possono fare a un uomo il male che può fare a se stesso». E così sarà di Max Shpindler, un'altra delle indimenticabili figure della vasta commedia umana che Singer ha saputo mettere in scena: cinico e donnaiolo, in apparenza pienamente soddisfatto di sé e della propria ricchezza, pronto a finanziare un gruppo di anarchici se questo gli consente di far soldi, Max è in realtà tormentato da dubbi, e da domande a cui non trova risposta, e da tentazioni di morte – un tumulto che proprio l'incontro con l'irresistibile Rashka porterà con prepotenza alla luce. Dopo Keyla la Rossa e Il ciarlatano, un terzo, strepitoso inedito del grande scrittore polacco.Marino Freschi, 1942, germanista triestino, si è formato al Roma, Zurigo, Berlino ha insegnato all'Università Orientale di Napoli, all'Università Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli e Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, dal 2015 è Professore Emerito di Letteratura tedesca nello stesso ateneo.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.itQuesto show fa parte del network Spreaker Prime. Se sei interessato a fare pubblicità in questo podcast, contattaci su https://www.spreaker.com/show/1487855/advertisement

New Books in History
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2023 34:39


The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic, the USSR, and, finally, the Third Reich. Yet to use his own metaphor, Schulz remained throughout a citizen of the Republic of Dreams. He was a master of twentieth-century imaginative fiction who mapped the anxious perplexities of his time; Isaac Bashevis Singer called him “one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived.” Schulz was also a talented illustrator and graphic artist whose masochistic drawings would catch the eye of a sadistic Nazi officer. Schulz's art became the currency in which he bought life. In Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History (Norton, 2023), Benjamin Balint chases the inventive murals Schulz painted on the walls of an SS villa―the last traces of his vanished world―into multiple dimensions of the artist's life and afterlife. Sixty years after Schulz was murdered, those murals were miraculously rediscovered, only to be secretly smuggled by Israeli agents to Jerusalem. The ensuing international furor summoned broader perplexities, not just about who has the right to curate orphaned artworks and to construe their meanings, but about who can claim to stand guard over the legacy of Jews killed in the Nazi slaughter. By re-creating the artist's milieu at a crossroads not just of Jewish and Polish culture but of art, sex, and violence, Bruno Schulz itself stands as an act of belated restitution, offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of a life with all its paradoxes and curtailed possibilities. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il. She's on Twitter @embracingwisdom. She blogs here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

New Books in Literary Studies
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)

New Books in Literary Studies

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2023 34:39


The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic, the USSR, and, finally, the Third Reich. Yet to use his own metaphor, Schulz remained throughout a citizen of the Republic of Dreams. He was a master of twentieth-century imaginative fiction who mapped the anxious perplexities of his time; Isaac Bashevis Singer called him “one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived.” Schulz was also a talented illustrator and graphic artist whose masochistic drawings would catch the eye of a sadistic Nazi officer. Schulz's art became the currency in which he bought life. In Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History (Norton, 2023), Benjamin Balint chases the inventive murals Schulz painted on the walls of an SS villa―the last traces of his vanished world―into multiple dimensions of the artist's life and afterlife. Sixty years after Schulz was murdered, those murals were miraculously rediscovered, only to be secretly smuggled by Israeli agents to Jerusalem. The ensuing international furor summoned broader perplexities, not just about who has the right to curate orphaned artworks and to construe their meanings, but about who can claim to stand guard over the legacy of Jews killed in the Nazi slaughter. By re-creating the artist's milieu at a crossroads not just of Jewish and Polish culture but of art, sex, and violence, Bruno Schulz itself stands as an act of belated restitution, offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of a life with all its paradoxes and curtailed possibilities. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il. She's on Twitter @embracingwisdom. She blogs here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

New Books in German Studies
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)

New Books in German Studies

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2023 34:39


The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic, the USSR, and, finally, the Third Reich. Yet to use his own metaphor, Schulz remained throughout a citizen of the Republic of Dreams. He was a master of twentieth-century imaginative fiction who mapped the anxious perplexities of his time; Isaac Bashevis Singer called him “one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived.” Schulz was also a talented illustrator and graphic artist whose masochistic drawings would catch the eye of a sadistic Nazi officer. Schulz's art became the currency in which he bought life. In Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History (Norton, 2023), Benjamin Balint chases the inventive murals Schulz painted on the walls of an SS villa―the last traces of his vanished world―into multiple dimensions of the artist's life and afterlife. Sixty years after Schulz was murdered, those murals were miraculously rediscovered, only to be secretly smuggled by Israeli agents to Jerusalem. The ensuing international furor summoned broader perplexities, not just about who has the right to curate orphaned artworks and to construe their meanings, but about who can claim to stand guard over the legacy of Jews killed in the Nazi slaughter. By re-creating the artist's milieu at a crossroads not just of Jewish and Polish culture but of art, sex, and violence, Bruno Schulz itself stands as an act of belated restitution, offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of a life with all its paradoxes and curtailed possibilities. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il. She's on Twitter @embracingwisdom. She blogs here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/german-studies

New Books in Jewish Studies
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)

New Books in Jewish Studies

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2023 34:39


The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic, the USSR, and, finally, the Third Reich. Yet to use his own metaphor, Schulz remained throughout a citizen of the Republic of Dreams. He was a master of twentieth-century imaginative fiction who mapped the anxious perplexities of his time; Isaac Bashevis Singer called him “one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived.” Schulz was also a talented illustrator and graphic artist whose masochistic drawings would catch the eye of a sadistic Nazi officer. Schulz's art became the currency in which he bought life. In Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History (Norton, 2023), Benjamin Balint chases the inventive murals Schulz painted on the walls of an SS villa―the last traces of his vanished world―into multiple dimensions of the artist's life and afterlife. Sixty years after Schulz was murdered, those murals were miraculously rediscovered, only to be secretly smuggled by Israeli agents to Jerusalem. The ensuing international furor summoned broader perplexities, not just about who has the right to curate orphaned artworks and to construe their meanings, but about who can claim to stand guard over the legacy of Jews killed in the Nazi slaughter. By re-creating the artist's milieu at a crossroads not just of Jewish and Polish culture but of art, sex, and violence, Bruno Schulz itself stands as an act of belated restitution, offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of a life with all its paradoxes and curtailed possibilities. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il. She's on Twitter @embracingwisdom. She blogs here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

New Books in Biography
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)

New Books in Biography

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2023 34:39


The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic, the USSR, and, finally, the Third Reich. Yet to use his own metaphor, Schulz remained throughout a citizen of the Republic of Dreams. He was a master of twentieth-century imaginative fiction who mapped the anxious perplexities of his time; Isaac Bashevis Singer called him “one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived.” Schulz was also a talented illustrator and graphic artist whose masochistic drawings would catch the eye of a sadistic Nazi officer. Schulz's art became the currency in which he bought life. In Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History (Norton, 2023), Benjamin Balint chases the inventive murals Schulz painted on the walls of an SS villa―the last traces of his vanished world―into multiple dimensions of the artist's life and afterlife. Sixty years after Schulz was murdered, those murals were miraculously rediscovered, only to be secretly smuggled by Israeli agents to Jerusalem. The ensuing international furor summoned broader perplexities, not just about who has the right to curate orphaned artworks and to construe their meanings, but about who can claim to stand guard over the legacy of Jews killed in the Nazi slaughter. By re-creating the artist's milieu at a crossroads not just of Jewish and Polish culture but of art, sex, and violence, Bruno Schulz itself stands as an act of belated restitution, offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of a life with all its paradoxes and curtailed possibilities. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il. She's on Twitter @embracingwisdom. She blogs here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

New Books in Art
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)

New Books in Art

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2023 34:39


The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic, the USSR, and, finally, the Third Reich. Yet to use his own metaphor, Schulz remained throughout a citizen of the Republic of Dreams. He was a master of twentieth-century imaginative fiction who mapped the anxious perplexities of his time; Isaac Bashevis Singer called him “one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived.” Schulz was also a talented illustrator and graphic artist whose masochistic drawings would catch the eye of a sadistic Nazi officer. Schulz's art became the currency in which he bought life. In Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History (Norton, 2023), Benjamin Balint chases the inventive murals Schulz painted on the walls of an SS villa―the last traces of his vanished world―into multiple dimensions of the artist's life and afterlife. Sixty years after Schulz was murdered, those murals were miraculously rediscovered, only to be secretly smuggled by Israeli agents to Jerusalem. The ensuing international furor summoned broader perplexities, not just about who has the right to curate orphaned artworks and to construe their meanings, but about who can claim to stand guard over the legacy of Jews killed in the Nazi slaughter. By re-creating the artist's milieu at a crossroads not just of Jewish and Polish culture but of art, sex, and violence, Bruno Schulz itself stands as an act of belated restitution, offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of a life with all its paradoxes and curtailed possibilities. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il. She's on Twitter @embracingwisdom. She blogs here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

New Books in Eastern European Studies
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)

New Books in Eastern European Studies

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2023 34:39


The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic, the USSR, and, finally, the Third Reich. Yet to use his own metaphor, Schulz remained throughout a citizen of the Republic of Dreams. He was a master of twentieth-century imaginative fiction who mapped the anxious perplexities of his time; Isaac Bashevis Singer called him “one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived.” Schulz was also a talented illustrator and graphic artist whose masochistic drawings would catch the eye of a sadistic Nazi officer. Schulz's art became the currency in which he bought life. In Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History (Norton, 2023), Benjamin Balint chases the inventive murals Schulz painted on the walls of an SS villa―the last traces of his vanished world―into multiple dimensions of the artist's life and afterlife. Sixty years after Schulz was murdered, those murals were miraculously rediscovered, only to be secretly smuggled by Israeli agents to Jerusalem. The ensuing international furor summoned broader perplexities, not just about who has the right to curate orphaned artworks and to construe their meanings, but about who can claim to stand guard over the legacy of Jews killed in the Nazi slaughter. By re-creating the artist's milieu at a crossroads not just of Jewish and Polish culture but of art, sex, and violence, Bruno Schulz itself stands as an act of belated restitution, offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of a life with all its paradoxes and curtailed possibilities. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il. She's on Twitter @embracingwisdom. She blogs here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies

Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)

Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2023 34:39


The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic, the USSR, and, finally, the Third Reich. Yet to use his own metaphor, Schulz remained throughout a citizen of the Republic of Dreams. He was a master of twentieth-century imaginative fiction who mapped the anxious perplexities of his time; Isaac Bashevis Singer called him “one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived.” Schulz was also a talented illustrator and graphic artist whose masochistic drawings would catch the eye of a sadistic Nazi officer. Schulz's art became the currency in which he bought life. In Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History (Norton, 2023), Benjamin Balint chases the inventive murals Schulz painted on the walls of an SS villa―the last traces of his vanished world―into multiple dimensions of the artist's life and afterlife. Sixty years after Schulz was murdered, those murals were miraculously rediscovered, only to be secretly smuggled by Israeli agents to Jerusalem. The ensuing international furor summoned broader perplexities, not just about who has the right to curate orphaned artworks and to construe their meanings, but about who can claim to stand guard over the legacy of Jews killed in the Nazi slaughter. By re-creating the artist's milieu at a crossroads not just of Jewish and Polish culture but of art, sex, and violence, Bruno Schulz itself stands as an act of belated restitution, offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of a life with all its paradoxes and curtailed possibilities. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il. She's on Twitter @embracingwisdom. She blogs here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/van-leer-institute

New Books in Polish Studies
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)

New Books in Polish Studies

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2023 34:39


The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic, the USSR, and, finally, the Third Reich. Yet to use his own metaphor, Schulz remained throughout a citizen of the Republic of Dreams. He was a master of twentieth-century imaginative fiction who mapped the anxious perplexities of his time; Isaac Bashevis Singer called him “one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived.” Schulz was also a talented illustrator and graphic artist whose masochistic drawings would catch the eye of a sadistic Nazi officer. Schulz's art became the currency in which he bought life. In Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History (Norton, 2023), Benjamin Balint chases the inventive murals Schulz painted on the walls of an SS villa―the last traces of his vanished world―into multiple dimensions of the artist's life and afterlife. Sixty years after Schulz was murdered, those murals were miraculously rediscovered, only to be secretly smuggled by Israeli agents to Jerusalem. The ensuing international furor summoned broader perplexities, not just about who has the right to curate orphaned artworks and to construe their meanings, but about who can claim to stand guard over the legacy of Jews killed in the Nazi slaughter. By re-creating the artist's milieu at a crossroads not just of Jewish and Polish culture but of art, sex, and violence, Bruno Schulz itself stands as an act of belated restitution, offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of a life with all its paradoxes and curtailed possibilities. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il. She's on Twitter @embracingwisdom. She blogs here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NBN Book of the Day
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)

NBN Book of the Day

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2023 34:39


The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic, the USSR, and, finally, the Third Reich. Yet to use his own metaphor, Schulz remained throughout a citizen of the Republic of Dreams. He was a master of twentieth-century imaginative fiction who mapped the anxious perplexities of his time; Isaac Bashevis Singer called him “one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived.” Schulz was also a talented illustrator and graphic artist whose masochistic drawings would catch the eye of a sadistic Nazi officer. Schulz's art became the currency in which he bought life. In Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History (Norton, 2023), Benjamin Balint chases the inventive murals Schulz painted on the walls of an SS villa―the last traces of his vanished world―into multiple dimensions of the artist's life and afterlife. Sixty years after Schulz was murdered, those murals were miraculously rediscovered, only to be secretly smuggled by Israeli agents to Jerusalem. The ensuing international furor summoned broader perplexities, not just about who has the right to curate orphaned artworks and to construe their meanings, but about who can claim to stand guard over the legacy of Jews killed in the Nazi slaughter. By re-creating the artist's milieu at a crossroads not just of Jewish and Polish culture but of art, sex, and violence, Bruno Schulz itself stands as an act of belated restitution, offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of a life with all its paradoxes and curtailed possibilities. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il. She's on Twitter @embracingwisdom. She blogs here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

New Books Network
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2023 34:39


The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic, the USSR, and, finally, the Third Reich. Yet to use his own metaphor, Schulz remained throughout a citizen of the Republic of Dreams. He was a master of twentieth-century imaginative fiction who mapped the anxious perplexities of his time; Isaac Bashevis Singer called him “one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived.” Schulz was also a talented illustrator and graphic artist whose masochistic drawings would catch the eye of a sadistic Nazi officer. Schulz's art became the currency in which he bought life. In Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History (Norton, 2023), Benjamin Balint chases the inventive murals Schulz painted on the walls of an SS villa―the last traces of his vanished world―into multiple dimensions of the artist's life and afterlife. Sixty years after Schulz was murdered, those murals were miraculously rediscovered, only to be secretly smuggled by Israeli agents to Jerusalem. The ensuing international furor summoned broader perplexities, not just about who has the right to curate orphaned artworks and to construe their meanings, but about who can claim to stand guard over the legacy of Jews killed in the Nazi slaughter. By re-creating the artist's milieu at a crossroads not just of Jewish and Polish culture but of art, sex, and violence, Bruno Schulz itself stands as an act of belated restitution, offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of a life with all its paradoxes and curtailed possibilities. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il. She's on Twitter @embracingwisdom. She blogs here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Choses à Savoir
Qu'est-ce que le syndrome de Yentl ?

Choses à Savoir

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2023 1:50


Si les femmes se plaignent de gagner moins que les hommes, cette inégalité de traitement se retrouve aussi dans le domaine de la santé. Les femmes y seraient en effet victimes du syndrome de Yentl.Le nom vient de cette héroïne du roman de l'écrivain Isaac Bashevis Singer, qui, pour faire les études qu'elle ambitionne, ne voit qu'un moyen : se déguiser en homme.Pour les auteurs de ce concept, le syndrome de Yentl désigne une inégale prise en charge médicale pour les hommes et les femmes. En bref, les hommes seraient mieux soignés que les femmes.L'expression a d'abord été utilisée par certains cardiologues, puis s'est étendue, avant de se généraliser, à des domaines comme la prise en charge des AVC ou des pneumonies.Cette prise en charge moins satisfaisante des femmes viendrait notamment de la manière dont sont réalisés les essais cliniques qui permettent de mieux connaître certaines maladies ou de mettre au point des médicaments.En effet, les tests seraient effectués en priorité sur des animaux de laboratoire mâles. Ce serait le cas de 80 % des rats et souris utilisés pour ces essais.Par ailleurs, les personnes retenues, avec leur accord, pour les essais cliniques concernant les médicaments seraient, pour les trois quarts d'entre eux, des hommes. Les laboratoires se justifient en invoquant le fonctionnement hormonal spécifique de l'organisme féminin, qui pourrait modifier l'interprétation des tests.La recherche médicale s'intéressant moins aux hommes, la manière dont les femmes réagissent à certaines maladies est donc moins bien connue. En effet, les symptômes diffèrent parfois selon le sexe.C'est ainsi que, si les signes avant-coureurs d'une crise cardiaque chez l'homme sont bien identifiés, il n'en va pas toujours de même chez la femme. Certaines femmes, en effet, ne ressentent pas de douleurs vives ou manifestent des symptômes moins caractéristiques que ceux qui précèdent la crise cardiaque chez l'homme.Aussi, faute de bien connaître ces symptômes différents, certains médecins ne reconnaissent pas assez tôt les signes qui, pourtant, annoncent de graves troubles cardiaques. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Choses à Savoir
Qu'est-ce que le syndrome de Yentl ?

Choses à Savoir

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2023 2:20


Si les femmes se plaignent de gagner moins que les hommes, cette inégalité de traitement se retrouve aussi dans le domaine de la santé. Les femmes y seraient en effet victimes du syndrome de Yentl. Le nom vient de cette héroïne du roman de l'écrivain Isaac Bashevis Singer, qui, pour faire les études qu'elle ambitionne, ne voit qu'un moyen : se déguiser en homme. Pour les auteurs de ce concept, le syndrome de Yentl désigne une inégale prise en charge médicale pour les hommes et les femmes. En bref, les hommes seraient mieux soignés que les femmes. L'expression a d'abord été utilisée par certains cardiologues, puis s'est étendue, avant de se généraliser, à des domaines comme la prise en charge des AVC ou des pneumonies. Cette prise en charge moins satisfaisante des femmes viendrait notamment de la manière dont sont réalisés les essais cliniques qui permettent de mieux connaître certaines maladies ou de mettre au point des médicaments. En effet, les tests seraient effectués en priorité sur des animaux de laboratoire mâles. Ce serait le cas de 80 % des rats et souris utilisés pour ces essais. Par ailleurs, les personnes retenues, avec leur accord, pour les essais cliniques concernant les médicaments seraient, pour les trois quarts d'entre eux, des hommes. Les laboratoires se justifient en invoquant le fonctionnement hormonal spécifique de l'organisme féminin, qui pourrait modifier l'interprétation des tests. La recherche médicale s'intéressant moins aux hommes, la manière dont les femmes réagissent à certaines maladies est donc moins bien connue. En effet, les symptômes diffèrent parfois selon le sexe. C'est ainsi que, si les signes avant-coureurs d'une crise cardiaque chez l'homme sont bien identifiés, il n'en va pas toujours de même chez la femme. Certaines femmes, en effet, ne ressentent pas de douleurs vives ou manifestent des symptômes moins caractéristiques que ceux qui précèdent la crise cardiaque chez l'homme. Aussi, faute de bien connaître ces symptômes différents, certains médecins ne reconnaissent pas assez tôt les signes qui, pourtant, annoncent de graves troubles cardiaques. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Daily Reminder
February 25

The Daily Reminder

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2023 1:16


Life is God's novel. Let him write it.—Isaac Bashevis Singer

Front Row
Les Dennis and Mina Anwar, writer Tania Branigan, Kerry Shale on Yentl

Front Row

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2023 42:04


Mina Anwar and Les Dennis discuss their new production of Spring and Port Wine at the Bolton Octagon. They explain why the 1960s classic play about a family in Bolton, and tensions between the generations, still has resonance today. Writer Tania Branigan talks about her new book Red Memory. Based on her research as a journalist in China, it tells the story of the Cultural Revolution through the memories of individuals including a composer, an artist and a man who denounced his own mother. It's nearly 40 years since Barbra Streisand's film Yentl was released. Based on a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, it follows a young woman who lives as a man so that she can study the bible. Kerry Shale, who had a part in Streisand's film, discusses returning to Singer's story to adapt it for a new Radio 4 drama, Yentl the Yeshiva Boy. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Olivia Skinner Image Credit: Pamela Raith Photography

We Watched A Thing
275 - Yentl

We Watched A Thing

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2023 30:32


Join us as we ask Papa if he can hear us, and question whether Mandy Patinkin can see us, as we pretend to be little boys all while talking about the 1983 Barbara Streisand classic ‘Yentl' at the request of a patron. Yentl is a 1983 American romantic musical drama film directed, co-written, co-produced by, and starring American entertainer Barbra Streisand. It is based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy". We Watched A Thing is supported by Dendy Cinemas Canberra. The best Australian cinema chain showing everything from blockbusters to arthouse and indie films. Find them at https://www.dendy.com.au/ If you like this podcast, or hate it and us and want to tell us so - You can reach us at wewatchedathing@gmail.com Or, Twitter - @WeWatchedAThing Facebook - @WeWatchedAThing Instagram - @WeWatchedAThing and on iTunes and Youtube If you really like us and think we're worth at least a dollar, why not check out our patreon at http://patreon.com/wewatchedathing. Every little bit helps, and you can get access to bonus episodes, early releases, and even tell us what movies to watch.

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
Ep 307: Suyash Rai Embraces India's Complexity

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2022 374:24


Indian society, the Indian state and the Indian economy are all complex beasts that defy simple narratives. Suyash Rai joins Amit Varma in episode 307 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe how he has tried to make sense of it all -- and how he tries to make a difference. (For full linked show notes, go to SeenUnseen.in.) Also check out: 1. Suyash Rai at Carnegie India, Twitter and The Print. 2. Ideas and Institutions -- The Carnegie India newsletter co-written by Suyash Rai. 3. Interpreting India -- The Carnegie India podcast sometimes hosted by Suyash Rai. 4. Carnegie India's YouTube Channel. 5. Demonetisation -- Episode 2 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Suyash Rai). 6. Religion and Ideology in Indian Society — Episode 124 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Suyash Rai). 7. Suyash Rai on GDP growth: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 8. Suyash Rai on public finance: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 9. Suyash Rai on the financial system: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 10. Suyash Rai on changes in state-capital relations in recent years: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 11. Suyash Rai on the judiciary: 1, 2. 12. Suyash Rai on utopian laws that do not work in practice: 1, 2, 3. 13. Suyash Rai on Demonetisation: 1, 2, 3, 4. 14. Paper Menagerie — Ken Liu. 15. Natasha Badhwar Lives the Examined Life -- Episode 301 of The Seen and the Unseen. 16. Conquest and Community: The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan -- Shahid Amin. 17. Understanding Gandhi. Part 1: Mohandas — Episode 104 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha). 18. Understanding Gandhi. Part 2: Mahatma — Episode 105 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha). 19. The Undiscovered Self: The Dilemma of the Individual in Modern Society -- CG Jung. 20. A Memoir of Mary Ann -- By Dominican Nuns (introduction by Flannery O'Connor). 21. Nathaniel Hawthorne on Amazon and Wikipedia. 22. Flannery O'Connor and “A Memoir of Mary Ann” -- Daniel J Sundahl. 23. GK Chesterton on Amazon and Wikipedia. 24. Alasdair MacIntyre on Amazon, Wikipedia and Britannica. 25. The Moral Animal -- Robert Wright. 26. Gimpel the Fool -- Isaac Bashevis Singer (translated by Saul Bellow). 27. George Orwell on Amazon and Wikipedia. 28. Frédéric Bastiat on Amazon and Wikipedia. 29. Reflections on Gandhi -- George Orwell. 30. Interview of Harshal Patel in Breakfast With Champions. 31. The Double ‘Thank-You' Moment — John Stossel. 32. The Facts Do Not Matter — Amit Varma. 33. The Hippocratic Oath. 34. Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart -- Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M Todd and the ABC Research Group on 'fast and frugal heuristics'). 35. The Right to Property -- Episode 26 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan). 36. The World of Premchand: Selected Short Stories — Munshi Premchand (translated and with an introduction by David Rubin). 37. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood -- Howard Pyle. 38. Ivanhoe -- Walter Scott. 39. The Swiss Family Robinson -- Johann David Wyss. 40. Treasure Island -- Robert Louis Stevenson. 41. One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 42. Saul Bellow on Amazon and Wikipedia. 43. Dangling Man -- Saul Bellow. 44. Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Bernard Malamud on Amazon. 45. Aristotle on Amazon, Britannica and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 46. Plato on Amazon, Britannica and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 47. Gorgias -- Plato. 48. The Dialogues of Plato. 49. Ramayana, Mahabharata and Amar Chitra Katha. 50. Nausea -- Jean-Paul Sartre. 51. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul). 52. Political Ideology in India — Episode 131 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rahul Verma). 53. Against Sainte-Beuve and Other Essays -- Marcel Proust. 54. What Have We Done With Our Independence? — Episode 186 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pratap Bhanu Mehta). 55. The Gentle Wisdom of Pratap Bhanu Mehta — Episode 300 of The Seen and the Unseen. 56.  The Aristocratic Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville -- Suyash Rai.   57. Narendra Modi takes a Great Leap Backwards — Amit Varma. 58. Ronald Dworkin on Amazon and Wikipedia. 59. Immanuel Kant on Amazon, Britannica and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 60. Beware of the Useful Idiots — Amit Varma. 61. Don't Choose Tribalism Over Principles -- Amit Varma. 62. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ajay Shah: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 63. Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It -- James Q Wilson. 64. The Moral Sense -- James Q Wilson. 65. Karthik Muralidharan Examines the Indian State -- Episode 290 of The Seen and the Unseen. 66. State Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century — Francis Fukuyama. 67. The Origins of Political Order — Francis Fukuyama. 68. Political Order and Political Decay — Francis Fukuyama. 69. Going from strong as in scary to strong as in capable -- Suyash Rai and Ajay Shah.   70. The Life and Times of Montek Singh Ahluwalia -- Episode 285 of The Seen and the Unseen. 71. Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy. 72. Utilitarianism on Wikipedia, Britannica and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 73. Practical Ethics -- Peter Singer. 74. Reasons and Persons -- Derek Parfit. 75. The Repugnant Conclusion. 76. Governing the Commons -- Elinor Ostrom. 77. A Pragmatic Approach to Data Protection -- Suyash Rai. 78. Technology and the Lifeworld -- Don Ihde. 79. Postphenomenology -- Don Ihde. 80. Kashi Ka Assi — Kashinath Singh. 81. Looking at Lucas's Question After Seventy-five Years of India's Independence -- Suyash Rai. 82. India's Lost Decade — Episode 116 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Puja Mehra). 83. The Lost Decade — Puja Mehra. 84. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah). 85. The Art and Science of Economic Policy — Episode 154 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah). 86. In Service of the Republic — Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah. 87. Douglass North and Albert O Hirschman. 88. The Intellectual Odyssey of Albert Hirschman -- Suyash Rai. 89. India's Problem is Poverty, Not Inequality — Amit Varma. 90. Democracy in America -- Alexis De Tocqueville. 91. Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy -- Pierre Manent. 92. The Populist Century -- Pierre Rosanvallon. 93. The Theory of Populism According to Pierre Rosanvallon -- Suyash Rai. 94. After Virtue -- Alasdair MacIntyre. 95. Philosophy of Technology -- Don Ihde. 96. Technology and the Virtues -- Shannon Vallor. 97. Nihilism and Technology -- Nolen Gertz. 98. Lant Pritchett on Amazon, Google Scholar and his own website. 99. Harnessing Complexity -- Robert Axelrod and Michael D Cohen. 100. Mahabharata, Odyssey, Divine Comedy and Rashmirathi. 101. Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar on Spotify. 102. Andrei Rublev -- Andrei Tarkovsky. 103. Andrei Tarkovsky, Luis Buñuel, Akira Kurosawa and Satyajit Ray. 104. Mission Impossible, Bad News Bears and Anand. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! Episode art: ‘The Past and the Future' by Simahina.

Come Cuento
Ep. 31 Héctor Abad lee y comenta el cuento titulado: “Amor tardío”, de Isaac Bashevis Singer

Come Cuento

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2022 68:22


Héctor Abad Faciolince, escritor colombiano y uno de los autores más relevantes de la literatura contemporánea escrita en español, lee y comenta el cuento: “Amor tardío”, del premio Nobel polaco-norteamericano, Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Quotomania
QUOTOMANIA 362: Maurice Sendak

Quotomania

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2022 3:00


Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) was born on June 10, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland. A largely self-taught artist, Sendak illustrated over one hundred-fifty books during his sixty-year career.The books he wrote as well as illustrated include Kenny's Window, Very Far Away, The Sign on Rosie's Door, Nutshell Library (consisting of Chicken Soup with Rice, Alligators All Around, One Was Johnny, and Pierre), Higglety Pigglety Pop!, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, Bumble-Ardy, My Brother's Book, and Presto and Zesto in Limboland (co-authored by Arthur Yorinks). He has collaborated with such celebrated authors as Meindert DeJong, Tony Kushner, Randall Jarrell, Ruth Krauss, Else Holmelund Minarik, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. And he has illustrated classics by Mother Goose, the Brothers Grimm, Herman Melville, and Leo Tolstoy.Sendak began a second career as a costume and stage designer in the late 1970s, designing operas that included Krása's Brundibar, Mozart's The Magic Flute, Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges, and Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, as well as Tchaikovsky's ballet, The Nutcracker. He also designed the sets and costumes, as well as wrote the book and lyrics for the musical production of Really Rosie.Maurice Sendak remains the most honored children's book artist in history. He was the recipient of the 1964 Caldecott Medal, the 1970 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 1983 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and the 2003 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. In 1996 President Bill Clinton presented him with the National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the arts in America. In 1972 Sendak moved to Ridgefield, Connecticut with his partner of fifty years, the psychiatrist Dr. Eugene Glynn (1926-2007).From https://www.sendakfoundation.org/biography. For more information about Maurice Sendak:“He saw it, he loved it, he ate it”: https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/he-saw-it-he-loved-it-he-ate-it“‘Fresh Air' Remembers Author Maurice Sendak”: https://www.npr.org/2012/05/08/152248901/fresh-air-remembers-author-maurice-sendak“Transcript: ‘Fresh Air' Remembers Author Maurice Sendak”: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/152248901“Sendak's Fantastic Imagination”: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1966/01/22/among-the-wild-things“Maurice Sendak: ‘I refuse to lie to children'”: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/02/maurice-sendak-interview“An Illustrated Talk With Maurice Sendak”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH2OaaktJrw“The Wildest Rumpus: Maurice Sendak and the Art of Death”: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/03/maurice-sendak-art-of-death/472350/

New Books Network
Steve Stern, "The Village Idiot" (Melville House, 2022)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2022 29:44


The Village Idiot by Steve Stern (Melville House, 2022) opens with a marvelous boat race on the River Seine in 1917. The already well-known artist Amedeo Modigliani is in a bathtub ostensibly being pulled by a flock of ducks, but actually being hauled by immigrant painter Chaim Soutine. Soutine, a poorly educated, rough, and unmannered immigrant from a shtetl in the Pale of Settlement, is disoriented by the recycled air he breathes into his helmet. As he trudges along the river bottom pulling the bathtub along, he considers his past and future life. Soutine painted as a child even when it led to humiliation and beatings by his father and brothers. Neither the collectors who supported him, the friends (like Modigliani) who stood up for him, or the women who fought over him could get in the way of his painting. But then the Nazis swept across Europe, destroying everything Jewish in their path, including a generation of talented Jewish artists. Some, like Soutine, managed to evade capture. Stern's gorgeous novel is a sweeping, imaginative story of a great artist who was uniquely brilliant but simultaneously unpleasant and unwashed. Steve Stern was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1947, and left to attend college, then to travel before ending up on a hippie commune in the Ozarks. He studied writing in the graduate program at the University of Arkansas, at a time when it included several notable writers who've since become prominent, including poet C.D. Wright and fiction writers Ellen Gilchrist, Lewis Nordan, Lee K. Abbott and Jack Butler. In his thirties, Stern accepted a job at a local folklore center where he learned about the city's old Jewish ghetto, The Pinch, and began to steep himself in Yiddish folklore. His first book, Isaac and the Undertaker's Daughter, 1983 won the Pushcart Writers' Choice Award. By decade's end Stern had won the O. Henry Award, two Pushcart Prize awards, published more collections, including Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven (which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish American Fiction) and the novel Harry Kaplan's Adventures Underground, and was being hailed by critics, such as Cynthia Ozick, as the successor to Isaac Bashevis Singer. Stern's 2000 collection The Wedding Jester won the National Jewish Book Award and his novel The Angel of Forgetfulness was named one of the best books of 2005 by The Washington Post. Stern, who teaches at Skidmore College, has also won some notable scholarly awards, including a Fulbright fellowship and the Guggenheim foundations Fellowship. He splits his time between Brooklyn and Balston Spa, New York and enjoys hiking, climbing, biking, and kayaking. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in Literature
Steve Stern, "The Village Idiot" (Melville House, 2022)

New Books in Literature

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2022 29:44


The Village Idiot by Steve Stern (Melville House, 2022) opens with a marvelous boat race on the River Seine in 1917. The already well-known artist Amedeo Modigliani is in a bathtub ostensibly being pulled by a flock of ducks, but actually being hauled by immigrant painter Chaim Soutine. Soutine, a poorly educated, rough, and unmannered immigrant from a shtetl in the Pale of Settlement, is disoriented by the recycled air he breathes into his helmet. As he trudges along the river bottom pulling the bathtub along, he considers his past and future life. Soutine painted as a child even when it led to humiliation and beatings by his father and brothers. Neither the collectors who supported him, the friends (like Modigliani) who stood up for him, or the women who fought over him could get in the way of his painting. But then the Nazis swept across Europe, destroying everything Jewish in their path, including a generation of talented Jewish artists. Some, like Soutine, managed to evade capture. Stern's gorgeous novel is a sweeping, imaginative story of a great artist who was uniquely brilliant but simultaneously unpleasant and unwashed. Steve Stern was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1947, and left to attend college, then to travel before ending up on a hippie commune in the Ozarks. He studied writing in the graduate program at the University of Arkansas, at a time when it included several notable writers who've since become prominent, including poet C.D. Wright and fiction writers Ellen Gilchrist, Lewis Nordan, Lee K. Abbott and Jack Butler. In his thirties, Stern accepted a job at a local folklore center where he learned about the city's old Jewish ghetto, The Pinch, and began to steep himself in Yiddish folklore. His first book, Isaac and the Undertaker's Daughter, 1983 won the Pushcart Writers' Choice Award. By decade's end Stern had won the O. Henry Award, two Pushcart Prize awards, published more collections, including Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven (which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish American Fiction) and the novel Harry Kaplan's Adventures Underground, and was being hailed by critics, such as Cynthia Ozick, as the successor to Isaac Bashevis Singer. Stern's 2000 collection The Wedding Jester won the National Jewish Book Award and his novel The Angel of Forgetfulness was named one of the best books of 2005 by The Washington Post. Stern, who teaches at Skidmore College, has also won some notable scholarly awards, including a Fulbright fellowship and the Guggenheim foundations Fellowship. He splits his time between Brooklyn and Balston Spa, New York and enjoys hiking, climbing, biking, and kayaking. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast
Episode 0332: Asaf Galay on The Adventures of Saul Bellow

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2022 18:59


This week on The Shmooze, we talk to Asaf Galay, award-winning director of films that examine modern Jewish culture and creativity. He has explored the magical literature and complex life of Isaac Bashevis Singer, celebrated ultra-Orthodox and queer Swedish pop music, and traced the development of comics and cartoons in the United States and Israel. His documentary "The Adventures of Saul Bellow" will be screened at the Yiddish Book Center and as part of the PBS American Masters series in December 2022. In conversation we talk about how Asaf's documentary brings the viewer into the world that informed Bellow, the writer and the person. Episode 332 August 8, 2022 Amherst, MA

Llibres
La finestra al m

Llibres

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2022 12:53


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Centro Sefarad-Israel
Sin tiempo para el adiós. Exiliados y emigrados en la literatura del S. XX

Centro Sefarad-Israel

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2022 56:14


Mercedes Monmany, escritora, crítica literaria, traductora y editora española conversará en Centro Sefarad-Israel con la periodista Karina Sainz Borgo sobre su obra Sin tiempo para el adiós editado por Galaxia Gutemberg (2021). El siglo XX está atravesado por éxodos continuos y dramáticos que se dan la mano, sin cesar. Escritores, artistas e intelectuales, de las más diversas nacionalidades y procedencias, escapan de los totalitarismos, de las persecuciones raciales y políticas, de las guerras, de las deportaciones e internamientos en campos de concentración y, en general, de la barbarie y de gigantescos «océanos de odio», como los llamaría Robert Musil. «Decir adiós es un arte difícil y amargo» dirá por su parte Stefan Zweig en el funeral de su amigo igualmente exiliado Joseph Roth. «El exiliado es el devorado por la Historia», añadirá la filósofa española María Zambrano. En “Sin tiempo para el adiós” Mercedes Monmany dirige su vista a algunos de los más grandes creadores europeos del pasado siglo que se vieron obligados a emprender el doloroso camino del exilio. Ahí estarían antinazis alemanes como Thomas y Klaus Mann, Alfred Döblin y Hannah Arendt, austriacos como Robert Musil, Joseph Roth y Franz Werfel, rusos que huían de la tiranía soviética como Nabokov y Joseph Brodsky, confinados de la época musoliniana como Pavese y Natalia Ginzburg, españoles exiliados tras la Guerra Civil como María Zambrano, Luis Cernuda o Chaves Nogales, polacos como Witold Gombrowicz y el Premio Nobel de Literatura Czesław Miłosz o escapados hacia Estados Unidos a causa de las incesantes olas de antisemitismo y la catástrofe del Holocausto como Isaac Bashevis Singer y Henry Roth. Sus historias serán las protagonistas de esta conversación.

Répliques
L'humanité d'Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991)

Répliques

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2022 51:42


durée : 00:51:42 - Répliques - par : Alain Finkielkraut - Conversation autour de la vie et de l'œuvre de l'écrivain, Isaac Bashevis Singer, avec Florence Noiville et Marc Crépon. - invités : Florence Noiville journaliste, critique littéraire, écrivain; Marc Crépon directeur de recherche à l'Université Paris Sorbonne et directeur du département de philosophie à l'École normale supérieure

RN Arts - ABC RN
A reimagined Yentl and a play about race and privilege in education hit home for director

RN Arts - ABC RN

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2022 54:07


Isaac Bashevis Singer's Yentl was most famously adapted into a musical film by Barbra Streisand. Now a new adaptation breathes new life into the story. It's directed by Gary Abrahams, who is also at the helm of Admissions at the Melbourne Theatre Company. Also, playwright and Blak & Bright Festival Director Jane Harrison curates a session of monologues by First Nations writers and Voice and Text Coach at the Sydney Theatre Company Leith McPherson shares tips on how an actor's voice can supplement their income.

The Dybbukast
The New World

The Dybbukast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2022 30:30


In our fifth episode of the season, presented in collaboration with Lilith magazine, we explore the Yiddish short story “The New World,” written by Esther Singer Kreitman in the first half of the twentieth century. The English translation by Barbara Harshav, which you can hear excerpts from in the episode, was published in Lilith in 1991.Dr. Anita Norich, Professor Emerita of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, takes us through the story, while also discussing the author's life and the ways in which her work speaks to the themes and complexities in Yiddish literature. She also touches on the role that societal assumptions about gender have played in the lack of awareness around Yiddish fiction written by women.

Quotomania
Quotomania 051: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Quotomania

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2021 1:30


Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Isaac Bashevis Singer grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in Warsaw, where the main language was Yiddish. Singer's father, a rabbi, worked in a yeshiva, an Orthodox Jewish school for the study of sacred texts. Singer began studies to become a rabbi himself but decided to devote his life to writing. He emigrated to the United States in 1935 and settled in New York, where he found work as a writer, journalist and translator. Singer left behind a rich body of work, including about 20 novels and several books for children.Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote his works in Yiddish. His debut came in 1925 with publication of Af der elter (In Old Age). In several of his works, Singer writes about Polish Jews before the Holocaust. The stories often cover several generations, and many of them describe how modernity, secularism and assimilation affect the families. The stories often feature Jewish folklore and legends. Singer also wrote books for children and his autobiography, In My Father's Court (1967). Several of the Singers' works have been adapted for film.From https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1978/singer/facts/. For more information about Isaac Bashevis Singer:“A Guide to Isaac Bashevis Singer”: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-guide-to-isaac-bashevis-singer/“Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Art of Fiction No. 42”: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4242/the-art-of-fiction-no-42-isaac-bashevis-singer

Kahani Jaani Anjaani - Stories in Hindi
Ep59 Kahani - Katha Ek Khaas Sui Ki (The Needle) By Isaac Bashevis Singer

Kahani Jaani Anjaani - Stories in Hindi

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2021 16:44 Transcription Available


कैसे एक सुई ने मदद की एक माँ को अपने लिये बहू ढूंढ़ने में , सुनिए इसाक बेशविस सिंगर की लिखी 'कथा एक ख़ास सुई की' में | How a needle helps a mom to find her daughter-in-law , listen to 'Katha Ek Khaas Sui Ki (The Needle) by Isaac Bashevis Singer.  

Totally Trans Podcast Network
Yentl is a Trans Twink Chavruta

Totally Trans Podcast Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2021 56:32


In this episode, Henry (@punkgroucho) tell Ada (@the_ada_rhodes) why they thinks that the Anshel/Yentl from Yentl the Yeshiva Boy by Isaac Bashevis Singer is totally trans.You can find Yentle the Yeshiva Boy on the website for Commentary Magazine where is was originally published in 1962 or at used bookstores or library's if you are lucky Follow us on Twitter @totallytranspodGet bonus content on https://www.patreon.com/totallytrans All clips are protected under fair use and our music this week was "Klezmore" by Giorgio Di Campo which is royalty free on FreeSound Music