Podcasts about Shtetl

durée : 00:06:32 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - Dernier entretien avec Meret Meyer, petite-fille du peintre, vice-présidente du comité Marc Chagall et Ambre Gauthier, docteure en histoire de l'art, commissaires de l'exposition "Chagall, du noir et blanc à la couleur" à Aix-en-Provence. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Meret Meyer Éditrice, co-commissaire de l'exposition Chagall du noir et blanc à la couleur; Ambre Gauthier Docteure en Histoire de l'art, co-commissaire de l'exposition "Chagall du noir et blanc à la couleur"

durée : 00:34:55 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - Connaissez-vous la communauté des Litvaks ? En 2008, Victor Malka reçoit dans "Maison d'Études", Henri Minczeles et Yves Plasseraud pour "Litvaks", un ouvrage consacré au monde englouti des Juifs de Lituanie, cosigné avec Suzanne Pourchier aux éditions La Découverte. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Henri Minczeles; Yves Plasseraud Juriste, président du groupement pour les droits des minorités.

durée : 00:22:08 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - En 1953, trente ans après son installation en France, le peintre Marc Chagall s'entretient avec Georges Charbonnier dans "Couleurs de notre temps" sur la Chaîne Nationale. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Marc Chagall Peintre et graveur naturalisé français

durée : 00:15:54 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - En 1952, à Vence, au micro de Robert Sadoul, le peintre Marc Chagall évoque les illustrations qu'il a créées pour le roman "Les Âmes mortes" de Nicolas Gogol. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Marc Chagall Peintre et graveur naturalisé français

durée : 00:30:42 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - En 1980, une exposition présente, à Nice, les illustrations de Marc Chagall des "Psaumes de David" et d'autres thèmes bibliques. C'est l'occasion d'évoquer l'oeuvre gravée du peintre, ses estampes, gravures, lithographies et eaux fortes, moins connues que ses peintures. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé

durée : 01:29:57 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - Le peintre Marc Chagall a 90 ans en 1977. Cette année-là, le Louvre lui consacre une exposition qui met en valeur sa production de la décennie écoulée. Avec les voix de Marc Chagall, André Malraux, Georges Auric et de nombreuses archives. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Marc Chagall Peintre et graveur naturalisé français; André Malraux Écrivain et homme politique français; Sylvie Andreu; Georges Auric

durée : 00:31:02 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - Deuxième entretien de la Nuit avec Meret Meyer, petite-fille du peintre Marc Chagall et Ambre Gauthier, docteure en histoire de l'art, toutes deux commissaires de l'exposition "Chagall, du noir et blanc à la couleur" à Aix-en-Provence. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Meret Meyer Éditrice, co-commissaire de l'exposition Chagall du noir et blanc à la couleur; Ambre Gauthier Docteure en Histoire de l'art, co-commissaire de l'exposition "Chagall du noir et blanc à la couleur"

durée : 00:30:50 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - La musique, la danse et le théâtre imprègnent l'oeuvre du peintre Marc Chagall. Ces sources d'inspiration sont évoquées dans "Présence des arts" en 1984. Martine Cadieu propose une voyage poétique et musicale dans les œuvres de Chagall pour le spectacle, comme le plafond de l'Opéra de Paris. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé

durée : 00:51:36 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - En 1980, François Leyritz invite Pierre Provoyeur, conservateur du Musée Chagall de Nice, pour présenter les peintures composant "Le Message Biblique" de Chagall. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé

durée : 00:41:32 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - Albane Penaranda reçoit Meret Meyer, petite-fille du peintre, vice-présidente du comité Marc Chagall et Ambre Gauthier, docteure en histoire de l'art. Toutes deux sont commissaires de l'exposition "Chagall, du noir et blanc à la couleur" qui s'est tenue en 2018-2019 à Aix-en-Provence. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Meret Meyer Éditrice, co-commissaire de l'exposition Chagall du noir et blanc à la couleur; Ambre Gauthier Docteure en Histoire de l'art, co-commissaire de l'exposition "Chagall du noir et blanc à la couleur"

Tasha Cathey introduces her visual artwork, "God's Underpaintings," and Barbara Krasner reads her poem, "In the Shtetl, G-d Does Not Only." Tasha Cathey lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with her husband and two children. Her work is inspired heavily from her years spent living in Arizona and California at a young age and are either composed purely from memory or directly using a reference from her photography. Every painting is created using handmade watercolor made in her home studio using carefully sourced earth pigments and indigo. Barbara Krasner holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. The author of two poetry chapbooks and three novels in verse, her poetry has also appeared in Minyan, Nimrod, Cimarron Review, ONE ART: A Journal of Poetry, Paterson Literary Review, and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in New Jersey. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vita-poetica/support

Just in time for Hanukkah, comes a century-old-tale of a young Jewish boy's courage to take on an adult's responsibilities as chief light keeper in his Russian shtetl. It's the true story of Ottawa's Samuel Saslove, who stepped up to keep his community's brand new electric street lights working, at the tender age of ten. Saslove arrived in Canada in the 1920s and while he didn't divulge much about his experiences growing up in “the old country”, his daughter, Sheila Baslaw, preserved those memories for decades. Now, at 92, Baslaw has found a whole new audience for her father's inspiring tale of bravery and resilience. Her debut children's book “The Light Keeper”, co-written with Karen Levine of “Hana's Suitcase” fame, has just been published by Second Story Press and is already a Heather's Pick at Indigo. While Baslaw's father did have to overcome antisemitism–and the persecution of Jews in Czarist Russia that sparked mass emigration to this country in the 1900s–her book's message deliberately highlights the universal challenges many of her young readers could face. On today's episode of The CJN Daily, Sheila Baslaw joins along with her co-author to explain why it's never too late to learn a new skill. What we talked about: Learn more and buy 'The Light Keeper' book at Second Story Press. Read more about Hana's Suitcase, the true story of the Brady family, on The CJN Daily. Hear more stories about the author's family in her oral history with the Ottawa Jewish Archives from 2001. Credits Host and writer: Ellin Bessner (@ebessner) Production team: Zachary Kauffman (producer), Michael Fraiman (executive producer) Music: Dov Beck-Levine Support our show Subscribe to The CJN newsletter Donate to The CJN (+ get a charitable tax receipt) Subscribe to The CJN Daily (Not sure how? Click here)

Send us a Text Message.In this sermon, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath discusses the importance of relying on G-d rather than external sources for salvation and miracles. He shares a story from the shtetl about a couple seeking a blessing from a Rebbe and how their reliance on money instead of G-d hindered their miracle. Rabbi Bernath also explores the teachings of Pirkei Avot (Ethics of Our Fathers) and emphasizes the need for caution when dealing with those in authority. He encourages listeners to seek guidance from mentors and to make decisions based on both intellect and emotion. The conversation concludes with a reminder to focus on the positive and trust in G-d.TakeawaysRelying solely on external sources, such as money or powerful allies, can hinder miracles and salvation.The teachings of Pirkei Avot emphasize the importance of caution when dealing with those in authority.Seeking guidance from mentors who have successfully achieved what we aspire to can help us make better decisions.Balancing intellect and emotion is crucial in making objective and ethical choices.Focusing on the positive and trusting in God can help us navigate difficult times.Check out all the upcoming events at www.theloverabbi.com/eventsGot your own question for Rabbi Bernath? He can be reached at rabbi@jewishndg.com or http://www.theloverabbi.comSingle? You can make a profile on www.JMontreal.com and Rabbi Bernath will help you find that special someone.Contact Rabbi Bernath via http://www.theloverabbi.com Support the Show.Donate Here | https://ndg.chabadsuite.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=36 Donate Here in US dollars https://ndg.chabadsuite.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=15

Kiryas Joel, a chartered municipality in New York State functions as a religious community and American village. Nomi M. Stolzenberg holds the Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She is a legal scholar whose research spans a range of interdisciplinary interests, including law and religion, law and liberalism, law and feminism, law and psychoanalysis, and law and literature. After getting her J.D. at Harvard Law School in 1987 and clerking for the Honorable John Gibbons, chief judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, she joined the faculty at the USC Gould School in 1988. There, she helped establish the USC Center for Law, History and Culture, one of the preeminent centers for the study of law and the humanities. She is the co-author with David N. Myers of American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton, 2022), and the author of numerous articles on law and religion, including the widely cited “He Drew a Circle That Shut Me Out: Assimilation, Indoctrination, and the Paradox of a Liberal Education,” published in the Harvard Law Review, “Righting the Relationship Between Race and Religion in Law,” and “The Return of Religion: Legal Secularism's Rise and Fall and Possible Resurrection.” She is spending the 2022-2023 academic year as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and as a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she will be working on a new project on religious exemptions and the theory of “faith-based discrimination.”   David N. Myers is Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA, where he serves as the director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. He also directs the new UCLA Initiative to Study Hate. He is the author or editor of more than fifteen books in the field of Jewish history, including, with Nomi Stolzenberg, American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton, 2022), which was awarded the 2022 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish studies. From 2018-2023, he served as president of the New Israel Fund.

When the sheriff outlaws the delivering of shalach-mones without a special license, which must be bought from him, the Jews gragger Haman extra hard that year and the situation quickly turns over just as in the days of Mordechai and Esther.

Vancouver rabbis Dan Moskovitz and Carey Brown spent four days in Israel in December 2023 as part of a delegation of eight spiritual leaders from the city. They carried 21 duffel bags full of supplies, toured Kibbutz Be'eri and heard from survivors, met with mourners and visited the grave of Vancouver's Ben Mizrachi, who was murdered at the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023. Three months after the Hamas attack that killed 1,200 residents–sparking a war that shows no end in sight–tourism in the Holy Land has stalled. Many airlines have yet to resume full service to Israel; hotels are full of displaced residents from Israel's frontline communities; lifestyle travellers have cancelled trips. In the midst of this bad economic news, however, one unique type of tourism has partly filled the void: volunteer missions. Wine tastings in the Galilee and mud baths at the Dead Sea are out, but picking avocados is in. And hundreds of Diaspora Jews have volunteered. On today's The CJN Daily, we'll hear why so many Jews are feeling compelled to “bear witness”. Rabbi Moskovitz will discuss his December visit; we'll meet Yael Benarroch and Sherri Ettedgui, both Toronto residents, who volunteered on a “Mother to Mother” mission organized by U.S.-based Jewish organization Momentum. And Gal Hana, Israel's consul for tourism in Toronto, describes what tourism will look like from now, until the fighting ends. What we talked about Learn more about the “Till They All Come Home” hostage bracelet fundraiser created by Rabbi Dan Moskovitz, including how to order. Read more about how volunteers are preparing food for Israelis, in The CJN. Why Canadian cardiologist Dr. Brad Strauss flew to Israel to help a hospital after Oct. 7 on The CJN Daily. Credits The CJN Daily is written and hosted by Ellin Bessner (@ebessner on Twitter). Zachary Kauffman is the producer. Michael Fraiman is the executive producer. Our theme music is by Dov Beck-Levine. Our title sponsor is Metropia. We're a member of The CJN Podcast Network. To subscribe to this podcast, please watch this video. Donate to The CJN and receive a charitable tax receipt by clicking here. Hear why The CJN is important to me.

narrated by Edward Serotta In towns like Dorohoi, Suceava, Botosani, and Radauti, Jewish life carried on all during the post-Holocaust decades. They were rapidly shrinking, of course, as most younger Jews wanted to leave, and the majority of them emigrated to Israel. But these small communities still maintained their canteens, youth clubs, choirs, and seniors' clubs and held regular synagogue services. As of the 2020s, however, most of these organizations were no longer functioning. That makes these three stories all the more compelling, as they take you back to a world now lost to us.

This week's bad boys include Julia's return of the neck, Zoë's perfect week and and a stunning look-back at a legend of daytime, Jerry Springer. 

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://melavamalkastories.com/2023/05/01/how-it-was-done-in-the-shtetl/

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This week's guest is Shlomo Satt (he/him) who works within the Jewish Non-Profit Sector and is based in New York City.  Shlomo shares with us about his experience growing up within Orthodox Judaism and what it was like to navigate a community with limiting beliefs around queerness and mental health. He shares about his experience being sent to Conversion Therapy and then recovering from that experience, and then later walks us through how psychotherapy and 12 step programs became helpful spaces for him to heal and grow in such an empowered way. He goes on to talk about shifting emphasis in his life from growing to finally fully living, and what this means for him, what else was entailed within his Second Adolescence experience, and how Community is such a big part of both his personal and professional lives. This was a super fascinating conversation and I feel so grateful to Shlomo inviting us all into his story. About the guest:Shlomo Satt (he, him) is 27 years old, a lifelong New Yorker, and works in the Jewish nonprofit sector. Currently, he works for itrek: an Israel-focused organization. Shlomo has significant experience with LGBTQ nonprofits and is an Advisory Member for Shtetl: a new haredi journalism initiative. In 2021, Shlomo graduated summa cum laude from Bellevue University with a Master's in Public Administration. Shlomo is an active member of the his local Jewish community and enjoys hosting game nights and Shabbat meals with his fiancé Mattan. His dog Jax likes getting involved too!For more visit www.secondadolescencepod.com or @secondadolescencepod.Download episode transcript here.

Now wait a minute. We've got one more week off until we return with all new episodes on January 17th, but we've got a special treat for you this week. It's another "feed drop," this time from the fabulous new podcast from Reboot, THE JEWISH BIZARRE. Dig into bloody murders, rioting mothers, anarchist parties, and pseudoscience; everything you never learned in Hebrew school and that your rabbi still doesn't want you to know. Join Dr. Eddy Portnoy of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Dr. Tony Michels of UW Madison, and some other host (we're not sure what she's really adding to the proceedings, frankly) for a discussion on the strangest corners of Jewish history. Look for it wherever you get your podcasts! And we'll see you NEXT WEEK for ALL NEW EPISODES on the Free Feed! Sponsors: ZocDoc helps you search, find, and book the right doctor for you! Go to zocdoc.com/askronna today! Having trouble keeping track of all your monthly subscriptions? Rocket Money can help save you money! Go to rocketmoney.com/askronna

This is a special episode with Corey's cousins, the Warshawskis. Sheila, Allan, Deena and Jonathan join the pod to recount how our family had to flee Cherny Ostriv, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1920, travel across Europe and finally arrive in America on March 3, 1921. It's possible that the Blicks and Krivals had been in that region for as long as 1,000 years. So what were the circumstances that led to the family's decision to leave the area where they had such deep roots? What was the trip across Europe and then the Atlantic like? How did the family re-establish itself in Newark, NJ and Brooklyn, NY? Then later (1979), what went into the decision on the part of the Warshawski cousins to make "aliyah" to Israel? And, oh yes, we do talk about politics! Trump and Bibi Netanyahu and some other issues come up in our conversation. There's even some disagreement just to keep it fun!

This is a special episode with Corey's cousins, the Warshawskys. Sheila, Allan, Deena and Jonathan join the pod to recount how our family had to flee Cherny Ostriv, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1920, travel across Europe and finally arrive in America on March 3, 1921. It's possible that the Blicks and Krivals had been in that region for as long as 1,000 years. So what were the circumstances that led to the family's decision to leave the area where they had such deep roots? What was the trip across Europe and then the Atlantic like? How did the family re-establish itself in Newark, NJ and Brooklyn, NY? Then later (1979), what went into the decision on the part of the Warshawski cousins to make "aliyah" to Israel? And, oh yes, we do talk about politics! Trump and Bibi Netanyahu and some other issues come up in our conversation. There's even some disagreement just to keep it fun!

iddisch war für Jahrhunderte die Muttersprache der osteuropäischen Jüdinnen und Juden, einer Welt, die mit der Shoah untergegangen ist. Das Jiddische aber hat überlebt. Streng religiöse Familien sprechen die alte jüdische Sprache heute noch im Alltag, etwa in Jerusalem, New York oder Antwerpen. Jiddisch ist auch die "Mamesloshn", die Muttersprache der Stuttgarter Künstlerin Mina Gampel, die Szenen aus dem osteuropäischen Shtetl malt. Und in deutschen Großstädten zelebrieren junge säkulare Jüdinnen und Juden die Sprache ihrer Vorfahren als Lebensgefühl. Ob orthodox oder säkular, jung oder alt: Für alle ist Jiddisch mehr als ein Verständigungsmittel. Mit der Sprache knüpfen sie an Vergangenes an und schaffen sich Identität und Heimat.

In December 1875, a Jewish woman named Sarah Alexander is found dead in a Brooklyn cornfield, her neck slashed. The investigation and murder trial sweeps the nation and forever changes the perception of Jews in the United States. Dr. Eddy Portnoy, Dr. Tony Michels, and Jessica Chaffin dive into what happened and why the case was so intriguing. Plus murder pamphlets, Jewish gangsters, and the other stories Jewish Historians didn't want you to know. The Jewish Bizarre is produced by Reboot, an arts and culture non-profit that reimagines and reinforces Jewish thought and traditions. As a premier research and development platform for the Jewish world, Reboot catalyzes its network of preeminent creators, artists, entrepreneurs and activists to produce experiences and products that evolve the Jewish conversation and transform society. This podcast is supported by a generous grant from the Covenant Foundation.

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narrated by Stephen Greif In this short episode, we learn about growing up in a shtetl, fleeing a pogrom, and what it was like living on a collective farm.

Amalia Bar-Oz never met her great-grandmother. But she knows that great-grandma Hesya was a fighter. That when the pogroms ripped her life apart, she found a new hope in her ancestral homeland… ~~~~  Resources: On Life in the Shtetl and Pogroms in the Russian Empire: Article 1, Article 2, Article 3 Podcast on Kishinev, Video on Kishinev Video on Shtetl Life On Early/Proto-Zionist Movements: Article 1, Article 2, Article 3 Video On Kibbutzim: Video: What Life is Like on an Israeli Kibbutz Article 1, 2, 3, 4 Homepage of the first kibbutz (in Hebrew) ~~~~  This show was made possible by support from the Koum Family Foundation, the Crain-Maling Foundation, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, and the Skolnick Family Charitable Trust.

Amalia Bar-Oz never met her great-grandmother. But she knows that great-grandma Hesya was a fighter. That when the pogroms ripped her life apart, she found a new hope in her ancestral homeland… ~~~~  Resources: On Life in the Shtetl and Pogroms in the Russian Empire: Article 1, Article 2, Article 3 Podcast on Kishinev, Video on Kishinev Video on Shtetl Life On Early/Proto-Zionist Movements: Article 1, Article 2, Article 3 Video On Kibbutzim: Video: What Life is Like on an Israeli Kibbutz Article 1, 2, 3, 4 Homepage of the first kibbutz (in Hebrew) ~~~~  This show was made possible by support from the Koum Family Foundation, the Crain-Maling Foundation, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, and the Skolnick Family Charitable Trust.

¿Cómo se define un Shtetl? ¿Cómo surgieron los primeros Shtetl? ¿Existen Shtetl fuera de Europa del este? En una entretenida y enriquecedora charla junto al especialista Yoel Schvartz analizamos el desarrollo histórico, las particularidades y algunas de las características centrales de las famosas "aldeas judías" de Europa del Este. Luego de abordar el aspecto histórico de estos Shtetl ahondamos en el Shtetl como parte de la memoria colectiva judía ¿Cómo era la vida en el Shtetl? ¿Era un paraíso armónico o más bien era una vida ligada a la pobreza y a un peligro de muerte constante? Más allá de qué fueron los Shtetl la pregunta es ¿Qué significan los Shtetl para la memoria judía?

Rabbi Adam Kligfeld sits down with acclaimed professors David Myers and Nomi Stolzenberg to discuss their new book about Kiryah Joel, the Satmar Hasidic, Yiddish-speaking village that emerged from the town of Monroe, NY, part of the extended community Rabbi Kligfeld served for nine years before coming to Temple Beth Am. (Zoom) Special Guests: David Meyers and Nomi Stolzenberg.

Yoni, Mordy and Shwekey drop new albums and continue to get free press from the Weekly Squeeze, the Shtetl is calling or should I say HBO is calling and an inspirational message all singles need to hear, this is The Weekly Squeeze Episode 15.www.chanalemusic.comwww.dailygiving.org/theweeklysqueezewww.jamiegeller.com promocode: Chanale10

In American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton University Press, 2022), Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers tell the story of how a group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews created a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that it disavows. Nomi M. Stolzenberg holds the Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. David N. Myers holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

In American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton University Press, 2022), Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers tell the story of how a group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews created a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that it disavows. Nomi M. Stolzenberg holds the Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. David N. Myers holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). 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

In American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton University Press, 2022), Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers tell the story of how a group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews created a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that it disavows. Nomi M. Stolzenberg holds the Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. David N. Myers holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton University Press, 2022), Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers tell the story of how a group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews created a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that it disavows. Nomi M. Stolzenberg holds the Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. David N. Myers holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

In American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton University Press, 2022), Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers tell the story of how a group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews created a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that it disavows. Nomi M. Stolzenberg holds the Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. David N. Myers holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

In American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton University Press, 2022), Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers tell the story of how a group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews created a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that it disavows. Nomi M. Stolzenberg holds the Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. David N. Myers holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

In American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton University Press, 2022), Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers tell the story of how a group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews created a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that it disavows. Nomi M. Stolzenberg holds the Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. David N. Myers holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020).

In American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton University Press, 2022), Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers tell the story of how a group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews created a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that it disavows. Nomi M. Stolzenberg holds the Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. David N. Myers holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Moshe Topol fr Byron Bay, who lost his home & all his clothes in the devastating floods is sharing his ordeal & praising his Israeli Shtetl community (Hebrew interview)

Jiddisch, die fast tausend Jahre alte jüdische Sprache, wird auch heute noch in streng religiösen Familien im Alltag gesprochen, etwa in Jerusalem, New York oder Antwerpen. Jiddisch ist auch die "Mamesloshn", die Muttersprache der Stuttgarter Künstlerin Mina Gampel, die Szenen aus dem osteuropäischen Shtetl malt. Und in deutschen Großstädten zelebrieren junge säkulare Jüdinnen und Juden die Sprache ihrer Vorfahren als Lebensgefühl. Ob orthodox oder säkular, jung oder alt: Für alle ist Jiddisch mehr als ein Verständigungsmittel. Mit der Sprache knüpfen sie an Vergangenes an und schaffen sich Identität und Heimat.

Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. This book tells the story of how this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown to become a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that it disavows. Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers paint a richly textured portrait of daily life in Kiryas Joel, exploring the community's guiding religious, social, and economic norms. They delve into the roots of Satmar Hasidism and its charismatic founder, Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, following his journey from nineteenth-century Hungary to post–World War II Brooklyn, where he dreamed of founding an ideal Jewish town modeled on the shtetls of eastern Europe. Stolzenberg and Myers chart the rise of Kiryas Joel as an official municipality with its own elected local government. They show how constant legal and political battles defined and even bolstered the community, whose very success has coincided with the rise of political conservatism and multiculturalism in American society over the past forty years. Timely and accessible, American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton UP, 2022) unravels the strands of cultural and legal conflict that gave rise to one of the most vibrant religious communities in America, and reveals a way of life shaped by both self-segregation and unwitting assimilation.

Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. This book tells the story of how this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown to become a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that it disavows. Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers paint a richly textured portrait of daily life in Kiryas Joel, exploring the community's guiding religious, social, and economic norms. They delve into the roots of Satmar Hasidism and its charismatic founder, Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, following his journey from nineteenth-century Hungary to post–World War II Brooklyn, where he dreamed of founding an ideal Jewish town modeled on the shtetls of eastern Europe. Stolzenberg and Myers chart the rise of Kiryas Joel as an official municipality with its own elected local government. They show how constant legal and political battles defined and even bolstered the community, whose very success has coincided with the rise of political conservatism and multiculturalism in American society over the past forty years. Timely and accessible, American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton UP, 2022) unravels the strands of cultural and legal conflict that gave rise to one of the most vibrant religious communities in America, and reveals a way of life shaped by both self-segregation and unwitting assimilation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Welcome to Times Will Tell, the weekly podcast from The Times of Israel. This week we're speaking with Max Gross, the author of the award-winning “The Lost Shtetl.” The book came out in October 2020 and we had a great no-spoilers interview with him then that was written by our writer Renee Ghert-Zand. Since then, it's won a bunch of Jewish book awards. Podcast host Amanda Borschel-Dan recently read the book and loved it, so we're having a fresh conversation in which we're lifting up the curtain and spoiling away. WARNING: If you intend to read this crazy novel about a shtetl that somehow drops off the face of the Earth and misses the Holocaust, the Cold War, fast-food, consumerism, and the internet revolution, stop now and do not listen to this episode! Otherwise, you'll hear Gross answer all sorts of frank questions about this enchanting, sobering book, that had us crying on the final page. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today I spoke with Max Gross about his book The Lost Shtetl (HarperCollins, 2020). Imagine a Jewish village hidden in the forests of Poland that somehow escapes the Holocaust. Eighty years later, a young woman divorces her husband and runs into the surrounding forest. The town sends a young man to find her. He's an orphan and expendable because he's not that good a marriage prospect, but suddenly he finds himself in modern-day Poland. He finds it hard to believe that all the Jews of Poland have been murdered along with most of Europe's Jewry. Officials toss him in an institution and study him for months until a Yiddish translator is found. And when they fly him home in a helicopter, the townspeople think the Messiah has finally come. The Lost Shtetl is about love, family, community, religion, class, government, politics, antisemitism, assimilation, and history itself. Although the town never heard of electricity, running water, or cars, never advanced in science or medicine, and never even heard of sliced bread, it's not clear that progress is going to be good for everyone in Kreskol. Max Gross was born in New York City in 1978 and is the son of two writers. After attending Saint Ann's School and Dartmouth College, he worked at the Forward and as a travel correspondent for the New York Post before becoming the Edi­tor-in-Chief of Com­mer­cial Observ­er. He wrote a book about dating called "From Schlub to Stud" but has since been rescued from the single man's fate by his beloved wife and son, with whom he lives in Queens, New York. The Lost Shtetl, his first novel, is a winner of the National Jewish Book Award, a recipient of an honorable mention for the Sophie Brody Medal, and winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries Fiction Award. Gross is also a lifelong traveler, having studied in Scotland and London, and having lived in Arad, Israel for a year. When not writing, he is a degenerate poker player who once had the distinction of beating the 2003 World Series of Poker champion, Chris Moneymaker, in a media versus professional tournament. I interview authors of beautifully written literary fiction and mysteries, and try to focus on independently published novels, especially by women and others whose voices deserve more attention. If your upcoming or recently published novel might be a candidate for a podcast, please contact me via my website, gpgottlieb.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prior to the Holocaust, much of the Jewish landscape of Eastern Europe was made up of shtetls. Today, decades after its destruction, the shtetl's residents, streets, and buildings still remain etched in the Jewish collective memory.

Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars, madmen and madwomen, disabled people, and poor orphans. Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939 (Stanford University Press, 2020) tells the story of these marginalized figures from the dawn of modernity to the eve of the Holocaust. Combining archival research with analysis of literary, cultural, and religious texts, Natan M. Meir recovers the lived experience of Jewish society's outcasts and reveals the central role that they came to play in the drama of modernization. Those on the margins were often made to bear the burden of the nation as a whole, whether as scapegoats in moments of crisis or as symbols of degeneration, ripe for transformation by reformers, philanthropists, and nationalists. Shining a light into the darkest corners of Jewish society in eastern Europe―from the often squalid poorhouse of the shtetl to the slums and insane asylums of Warsaw and Odessa, from the conscription of poor orphans during the reign of Nicholas I to the cholera wedding, a magical ritual in which an epidemic was halted by marrying outcasts to each other in the town cemetery―Stepchildren of the Shtetl reconsiders the place of the lowliest members of an already stigmatized minority. Natan M. Meir is the Lorry I. Lokey Professor of Judaic Studies in the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at Portland State University. He also serves as a museum consultant and leads study tours of Eastern Europe with Ayelet Tours. 503-828-5303, meir@pdx.edu Steven Seegel is a Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars, madmen and madwomen, disabled people, and poor orphans. Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939 (Stanford University Press, 2020) tells the story of these marginalized figures from the dawn of modernity to the eve of the Holocaust. Combining archival research with analysis of literary, cultural, and religious texts, Natan M. Meir recovers the lived experience of Jewish society's outcasts and reveals the central role that they came to play in the drama of modernization. Those on the margins were often made to bear the burden of the nation as a whole, whether as scapegoats in moments of crisis or as symbols of degeneration, ripe for transformation by reformers, philanthropists, and nationalists. Shining a light into the darkest corners of Jewish society in eastern Europe―from the often squalid poorhouse of the shtetl to the slums and insane asylums of Warsaw and Odessa, from the conscription of poor orphans during the reign of Nicholas I to the cholera wedding, a magical ritual in which an epidemic was halted by marrying outcasts to each other in the town cemetery―Stepchildren of the Shtetl reconsiders the place of the lowliest members of an already stigmatized minority. Natan M. Meir is the Lorry I. Lokey Professor of Judaic Studies in the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at Portland State University. He also serves as a museum consultant and leads study tours of Eastern Europe with Ayelet Tours. 503-828-5303, meir@pdx.edu Steven Seegel is a Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices