Zionism
Personal freedom and national independence.
Yet Zionism has proved a tremendous success.
A conversation about how small magazines develop and publish big Jewish ideas.
“We won! Am Yisrael ḥai!”
Bloomsday reflections.
Haim Hazaz’s “The Sermon.”
Gershom Scholem chose Israel; Theodor Adorno returned to Germany.
Zishe Breitbart, the “second Samson.”
The son of the human-rights icon joins us to discuss his father’s legacy, including his views on Zionism, Judaism, and Holocaust memory.
A strong and prosperous Israel is not an end in itself.
In 1897, the great Zionist writer Aḥad Ha’am argued that Jewish culture, not politics, was the best avenue to bring about a new Jewish state. This week’s podcast revisits his important ideas.
Jews, power, and jokes.
Y.H. Brenner “sanctified his life through his death and his death through his life.”
Sholem Aleichem meets Quentin Tarantino.