Bet Debora - Jewish Women's Perspectives

Bet Debora - Jewish Women's Perspectives

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Bet Debora - Jewish Women's Perspectives episodes

  • A Hidden Treasure: The Brundibar Festival of Newcastle upon Tyne, England'

    In 2017, I, Rabbi Barbara Borts, read a note about some concerts being held in my city of Newcastle upon Tyne, with music by composers who were considered 'entarte', 'degenerate', music banned by the Nazis as too modern, too corrupting, too Jewish. I had heard some of the compositions here and there, as they began to be reclaimed and performed, and I went along to the first one. I wasentranced. The music was special, intriguing, lovely, different, and it was exciting to have this music as an aspect of the commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day.

    The inspired figure behind this programme was Sasha Raikhlina, a gifted violinist with the Northern Sinfornia Orchestra. She assembled a team, and thus was established the annual Brundibar Festival. I am here discussing this project with Sasha herself.

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    36 min
  • Thinking Family Out of the Box
    Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli is a medical sociologist and professor in the Department of Nursing at the Faculty of Welfare and Health Sciences at the University of Haifa. She is known, among many other things, for asking research questions that provide unique insights into the working of contemporary societies. In this podcast episode, Daphna talks with Barbara Prainsack about two of her research projects that illustrate the changing meaning of kinship in Israeli society, from two very different perspectives: One project looks at how family relationships are changing when same-sex parents break up. The other one explores how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the relationships of young Israelis with their partners and children, as well as their attitudes towards family and work.

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    35 min
  • In Search of Meaning – a Conversation with the Bioethicist Carmel Shalev
    Carmel Shalev isan Israeli bioethicist and writer. Her work spans the big themes of life:Having been the first academic researching and writing about surrogacy, she influencedthe introduction of surrogacy in Israel. Her most recent book, "In Praiseof Ageing", combines reflections on growing older in a society that hasparticular "scripts" for ageing women with ancient Buddhist wisdom.In this podcast episode, Carmel Shalev tells the story of what made her afeminist, how her years studying law in Yale shaped her, and what it is likegrowing older in a radically changing Israeli society.

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    37 min
  • Feminismus sollte in jeder Ausstellung vorkommen – Ein Gespräch mit der Direktorin des Jüdischen Museums Wien, Barbara Staudinger
    Barbara Staudinger ist seit Sommer 2022 Direktorin des Jüdischen Museums Wien. Im November 2022 präsentierte sie die erste von ihr und anderen kuratierte Ausstellung „100 Missverständnisse über und unter Juden“. Wir sprechen mit ihr über ihren Werdegang als Historikerin, Judaistin und Kuratorin, ihre Arbeit in Museen in Deutschland und Österreich sowie ihre Ziele als Direktorin des Jüdischen Museums Wien.

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    45 min
  • The Challenges Facing Gender Studies in Israel. A Conversation with Ronit Irshai and Orna Sasson-Levy
    Ronit Irshai and Orna Sasson-Levy both work in the department of Gender Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. They both see Israel in crisis and Gender Studies in Israel under attack. In an open discussion they point out the problems they are faced with and their strategies to overcome them. They also point to the special situation of Gender Studies at Bar-Ilan University, a conservative, religious institution.

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    55 min
  • Jüdische Studien und die Uni der Zukunft – ein Gespräch mit Susanne Plietzsch
    Susanne Plietzsch ist Professorin für Judaistik und leitet seit 2010 das Zentrum für jüdische Kulturgeschichte der Universität Salzburg. Mit ihr sprechen wir über die Inhalte der Jüdischen Studien und das Salzburger Zentrum. Susanne Plietzsch begeistert sich für rabbinische Literatur und hier vor allem Midrasch. Ein wichtiges Anliegen ist es ihr, die Universität und insbesondere die Geisteswissenschaften zu befähigen, auf die Bedürfnisse der modernen Gesellschaft einzugehen.

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    56 min
  • Musik und Politik – Ein Gespräch mit der Musikwissenschaftlerin, Sängerin und Kulturaktivistin Isabel Frey
    Muss jiddische Volksmusik immer Klezmer sein? Unser neuer Podcast stellt jiddische Arbeiterlieder a capella gesungen von Isabel Frey vor. Isabel bemüht sich um eine zeitgemäße Belebung des Gedankenguts des Allgemeinen jüdischen Arbeiterbunds, der bedeutendsten jiddischen politischen Bewegung vor der Shoah und im Zusammenhang damit um eine Stärkung der jüdischen Diaspora, besonders auf kulturellem und politischen Gebiet.

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    1 hr 9 min
  • „Mein Ziel war es, arbeitenden Menschen zu ihrem Recht zu verhelfen“ – Ein Gespräch mit der Gewerkschafterin Dwora Stein.
    Dwora Stein war langjährige Bundesgeschäftsführerin der Gewerkschaft für Privatabgestellte, der größten Gewerkschaft Österreichs. In unserem Gespräch beschäftigen wir uns mit der Frage, was es für eine jüdische intellektuelle Frau bedeutete, in der männerdominierten Gewerkschaftsbewegung Karriere zu machen und welches ihre wichtigsten Errungenschaften waren. Außerdem sprechen wir über das vielfältige jüdische Engagement Dworas.

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    48 min
  • "Irma’s Passport" – Catherine Ehrlich’s biography about her grandmother Irma Ehrlich

    Jakob Ehrlich, Catherine’s grandfather was one of the most important Zionist politicians of Austria before the Shoah. After the Nazi takeover he was arrested immediately and deported to Dachau where he perished a few months later. His wife Catherine and his son Paul escaped to England where Irma became a successful speaker and fundraiser for WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organization). She continued this career after her move to New York. After the war she assisted survivors with their restitution claims in Germany.

    Catherine Ehrlich explains why she focused her book on Irma and how she influenced her life.

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    40 min
  • The Janina-Project: Life and Work of the Polish Logician Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum (1899-1942)
    Marta Sznajder, a philosopher at the University of Groningen, talks to Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum about her Janina Project in which she researches the life and work of Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum aka Janina Pańska. Born in Warsaw in 1899, Janina Hosiasson was one of the most avant-garde philosophers of her time. Despite the double disadvantage of being a woman and a Jew, she contributed to work in her area, inductive logic, with papers and talks at internationally renowned venues which inspired some of her most prominent contemporaries. Marta Sznajder speaks about the importance of Janina’s work, her personal life and her untimely death at the hands of the Gestapo in 1942. For more, including fascinating updates, on the Janina Project, see Marta Sznajder’s website: https://martasznajder.wordpress.com/janina-project/janina-project-blog/

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    1 hr 4 min

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In our monthly podcasts we speak with different Jewish women from around the globe - rabbis and cantors, politicians and activists, artists and women in academia. We talk about their activities, their…