From Anti-Semitism in Europe to the Future of Liberal Judaism in America to “The Jazz Singer”: A Tikvah Podcast Roundup
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2019/01/from-anti-semitism-in-europe-to-the-future-of-liberal-judaism-in-america-to-the-jazz-singer-a-tikvah-podcast-roundup/
January 7, 2019 | Leon Kass, James Kirchick, Clifford Librach, John Podhoretz, Greg Weiner, Ruth R. Wisse
About the author: James Kirchick is the assistant editor of
The New Republic and a Phillips Foundation journalism fellow.
John Podhoretz is the editor of
Commentary.
Ruth R. Wisse is professor emerita of Yiddish and comparative literatures at Harvard and a distinguished senior fellow at Tikvah. Her memoir
Free as a Jew: a Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, chapters of which appeared in
Mosaic in somewhat different form, is out from Wicked Son Press.
In this compilation of 2018 podcast highlights, hosted by Jonathan Silver, hear Ruth R. Wisse and James Kirchick on contemporary anti-Semitism, Greg Weiner on Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s defense of Israel at the UN, Clifford Librach on the importance of Jewish particularism, John Podhoretz on Jews in American film, and Leon Kass on the Zionist dream.
Read more on Tikvah: https://tikvahfund.org/library/podcast-the-best-of-2018/