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Bet Debora - Jewish Women"s Perspectives

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 concerns and their achievements, their lives as Jews and their lives as women. With these conversations, we aim to highlight our positions as Jewish women and encourage new strategies for strengthening our roles in society. We thank Vienna Women"s Affairs, MA57, for the generous support of our

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00:24:07

Survivor, A Diary of Ita Dimant

Bet Debora - Jewish Women"s Perspectives ·

2024/03/31

Martin Christopher Dean is a researchscholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). He formerly worked as an historian at the Metropolitan Police War Crimes Unit, Scotland Yard. 2008: National Jewish Book Award in the Writing Based on Archival Material category for Robbing the Jews. He edited The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945: Ghettos in German-occupied Eastern Europe Volume II. Indiana

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00:39:33

Is Israeli Democracy saved?

Bet Debora - Jewish Women"s Perspectives ·

2024/02/06

The distinguished guest of this podcast is Noa Sattath, Executive Director of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), one of the leading human rights organizations in the country. Noa explains that although the Supreme Court cancelled the government’s legislation to weaken the judiciary and with it Israeli democracy, the war brings new attacks on democratic rights particularly of the Arab citizens of Israel with it.

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00:50:46

The Wandering Womb: A Conversation with...

Bet Debora - Jewish Women"s Perspectives ·

2023/09/20

Sandi Wisenberg, author, journalist and editor from Chicago, has enriched numerous Bet Debora conferences with her witty, creative workshops. Now she published a book of autobiographical essays as well as reflections on perceptions of and theories about women through the ages. The common denominator of her very diverse texts is the Jewish feminist perspective, the consistently female voice of the narrator/author and the subtle humor and irony.

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00:35:48

A Hidden Treasure: The Brundibar Festival of...

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2023/06/07

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

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00:34:47

Thinking Family Out of the Box

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2023/05/08

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

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00:36:53

In Search of Meaning – a Conversation with the...

Bet Debora - Jewish Women"s Perspectives ·

2023/04/04

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 influenced the introduction of surrogacy in Israel. Her most recent book, "In Praise of Ageing", combines reflections on growing older in a society that has particular "scripts" for ageing women with ancient Buddhist wisdom. In this podcast episode, Carmel Shalev tells the story of what made her a feminist, how her

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00:44:22

Feminismus sollte in jeder Ausstellung vorkommen –...

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2023/03/09

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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00:54:17

The Challenges Facing Gender Studies in Israel. A...

Bet Debora - Jewish Women"s Perspectives ·

2023/02/19

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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00:55:22

Jüdische Studien und die Uni der Zukunft – ein...

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2022/12/12

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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01:08:32

Musik und Politik – Ein Gespräch mit der...

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2022/10/31

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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00:47:20

„Mein Ziel war es, arbeitenden Menschen zu ihrem...

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2022/10/02

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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00:39:20

"Irma’s Passport" – Catherine Ehrlich’s biography...

Bet Debora - Jewish Women"s Perspectives ·

2022/07/19

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

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01:03:27

The Janina-Project: Life and Work of the Polish...

Bet Debora - Jewish Women"s Perspectives ·

2022/06/23

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

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00:45:24

Family Issues through the Lens of Law - a...

Bet Debora - Jewish Women"s Perspectives ·

2022/05/30

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

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00:26:23

I belong to Vienna – A conversation with Anna Goldenberg

Bet Debora - Jewish Women"s Perspectives ·

2022/05/02

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 Falterand the daily Die Presse.Her book "I Belong to Vienna" was published in 2018by New Vessel Press andin German under the title "Versteckte Jahre. Der Mann, der meinen Großvater rettete". (Hidden years. The man who saved my

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00:34:55

Jewish Women’s Aid: Support for Jewish Women and...

Bet Debora - Jewish Women"s Perspectives ·

2022/03/22

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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00:36:42

Antisemitism and Gender in Hungary

Bet Debora - Jewish Women"s Perspectives ·

2022/02/23

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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00:39:45

What is a family? Women and kinship in contemporary...

Bet Debora - Jewish Women"s Perspectives ·

2022/01/24

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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00:50:42

… Frauen schauen immer, dass das Leben weitergeht....

Bet Debora - Jewish Women"s Perspectives ·

2021/12/23

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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00:41:20

„Ich wünsche mir, von orthodoxen Männern genauso...

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2021/11/28

Norli Lappin-Eppel spricht mit Shoshanna Duizend-Jensen, Historikerin und Archivarin, Tempelvorständin und Flüchtlingshelferin in Wien, über ihre Aktivitäten und die Stellung der Frauen in der orthodoxen jüdischen Gemeinde.

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