She had to cut off with the Hasidic world in order to return | Melissa Weisz
Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/mW6PTwWUVAUMelissa Weisz grew up in Hasidic, Yiddish-speaking Boro Park and left the fold well before the OTD phenomenon became famous. I believe she left ...
9 Aug 54min
Alone but not lonely; inside this Hasidic woman’s world | Gita Katz
Video link: https://youtu.be/xBBW-b4yNfwGita got married, like many Hasidic Williamsburg girls did. In an arranged match, when she was not yet twenty. Her marriage lasted until death did them part. De...
2 Aug 33min
We had ONE date & got married! | Brach and Avi
Video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/LV99eySK-24Fifteen years after their marriage was arranged, a couple reflects on their lives together. They met once for forty minutes and then got marri...
26 Juli 41min
Expelled from school and their world destroyed | Pessy Unstressing
Link to video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/7CBHWJwmAJIMany people know Pessy from her popular Yiddish comedy videos, where she lovingly and hilariously captures the world of Hasidic wom...
19 Juli 51min
The National Desertion Bureau | Eddy Portnoy
Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/ixZOxV5BuCIEddy Portnoy is back by popular demand, after our wonderful discussion on the history of Yiddish language. Eddy is the exhibit curator at YIVO I...
12 Juli 52min
Jews and Poland; how we tell Polish Jewish history | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Video link to this conversation: https://youtu.be/KCS9vAundmsHow do you tell the history of Jews in Poland? Why is there so much debate about this from Polish people? I ask the curator of the Polin mu...
8 Juli 15min
At 83, this Jewish icon has a story to tell | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Video link: https://youtu.be/qdQi26lBQ7QToday I have the great honor and pleasure of speaking with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a renowned scholar of Jewish culture, folklore, and performance studie...
5 Juli 54min
