Bet Debora - Jewish Women's Perspectives

Bet Debora - Jewish Women's Perspectives

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Bet Debora - Jewish Women's Perspectives episodes

  • Family Issues through the Lens of Law - a Conversation with Daphna Hacker

    Daphna Hacker, Professor at the Tel Aviv University Law Faculty and the Head of the Women and Gender Studies Program at the Faculty of Humanities, explains the growing importance of improved legislation concerning transnational families. Daphna Hacker also demands changes in inheritance laws that would enable the elderly to secure the necessary care they need.

    Another topic of our conversation is the recent regression in women's status in Israel, focusing on two main issues: the weakening of motherhood as a rewarding status, and women's exclusion from the public sphere.

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    46 min
  • I belong to Vienna – A conversation with Anna Goldenberg
    Anna Goldenberg, born in 1989 in Vienna, studied psychology at the University of Cambridge and journalism at Columbia University, New York. She worked for the Jewish newspaper The Forward in New York before returning to Vienna where she now works for the weekly Der Falter and the daily Die Presse. Her book "I Belong to Vienna" was published in 2018 by New Vessel Press and in German under the title "Versteckte Jahre. Der Mann, der meinen Großvater rettete". (Hidden years. The man who saved my Grandfather) by Paul Zsolnay Verlag. In the podcast Anna Goldenberg discusses her family’s fate during the holocaust and after the war as well as her role as an author and granddaughter.

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    27 min
  • Jewish Women’s Aid: Support for Jewish Women and Children Who are Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse, Rabbi Barbara Borts, Newcastle, in Conversation with Rabbi Lee Wax, London
    Jewish Women’s Aid was the first organisation in Britain - and arguably in Europe – to help Jewish victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse. Rabbi Lee Wax describes the kind of violence and abuse Jewish women and children are exposed to and the ways her organisation can help them.

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    35 min
  • Antisemitism and Gender in Hungary
    Anikó Félix is a Sociologist, received her PhD in Sociology from Eötvös Lóránd Science University, Budapest, Hungary in 2019. From 2020, she serves as a Case Manager for Combating Antisemitism at the World Jewish Congress. Her main fields of expertise are the contemporary far right movements, subculture and parties with a huge focus on their gender aspect, right-wing populism and antisemitism.

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    37 min
  • What is a family? Women and kinship in contemporary Israel
    Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, about the ways genetic technologies change our notions of family and the position of mothers in society. More about Prof. Hashiloni-Dolev: https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/Yael-Hashiloni-Dolev.aspx

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    40 min
  • … Frauen schauen immer, dass das Leben weitergeht. Ein Gespräch mit der österreichischen Journalistin, Schriftstellerin und Menschenrechtsaktivistin Susanne Scholl.

    Susanne Scholl beobachtete und kommentierte als Auslandskorrespondentin des Österreichischen Rundfunks den Fall des kommunistischen Regimes, den Aufstieg Vladimir Putins und den Krieg in Tschetschenien. Heute engagiert sie sich für Demokratie, Menschenrechte und einen humanen Umgang mit Flüchtlingen.

    Dieser Podcast entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Politikwissenschaften der Universität Wien.

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    51 min
  • Heroism of Jewish Women during the Holocaust
    Andrea Petö, Professor for Gender Studies at the Central European University, Vienna, talks with Lori Weintrob, Professor of History and founding director of the Wagner College Holocaust Center, Staten Island, New York, and Laura Morowitz, who is currently researching issues of art in Nazi Vienna about the different forms of Jewish women’s heroism. They discuss why it is important to remember these heroines and what they mean for us today.

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    52 min
  • An die Generationenkette anknüpfen … Ein Gespräch mit Rabbinerin Professorin Elisa Klapheck
    Norli Lappin-Eppel spricht mit Elisa Klapheck, Rabbinerin der liberalen Synagogengemeinschaft „Egalitärer Minjan“ in der Jüdischen Gemeinde in Frankfurt am Main und Professorin für Jüdische Studien an der Universität Paderborn darüber, was uns Rabbinerin Regina Jonas, die Philosophin Margarete Susman und die Judaistin Pnina Navé Levinson heute zu sagen haben. Außerdem zeigt sie den Zusammenhang zwischen jüdischer Tradition und Politik und erklärt, wie der Talmud ihr hilft, die Wirtschaftsseiten der Zeitung zu verstehen.

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    1 hr 15 min
  • Connecting Gender Studies and Jewish Studies in the Age of New Extremes
    In this podcast Andrea Petö, Professor of Gender Studies at the Central European University, Vienna, discusses the relationship of gender studies and Jewish studies with Paula de Villa from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and Veronique Sina from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. The speakers also reflect on the relationship between academia and politics and the necessity to combine them.

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    44 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…