Miss Mitzvah

Zoe Penina Baker & Sophia Lanman

Miss Mitzvah is an ongoing interactive installation and storytelling project conceived by Zoe Penina Baker which explores Bat Mitzvahs and coming-of-age rituals within a consumer-driven culture. Collecting narratives from young women in from across North America through hands-on workshops and interviews, the project exists as an ever-growing archive of stories and Bat Mitzvah dresses, invitations, photographs, and other objects and ephemera from the 1990s and 2000s. The Miss Mitzvah Podcast acts as a companion to the traveling exhibition, spotlighting participants in the project, and bringing stories of Jewish female identity and coming of age to your ears no matter where you are. Host: Zoe Penina Baker Producer and Composer: Sophia Lanman Editors: Will Owen Bennett, Julie Berube Special thanks to the Museum of Jewish Montreal and Jewish Public Library Archives.

Episodes

  1. 01/16/2018

    Episode 3: CAMP

    Episode 3 of the Miss Mitzvah Podcast. Content Warning: 4:37- 14:00

    Episode 3: CAMP

  2. 01/08/2018

    Minisode: Best Foot Forward for 2018

    A minisode addressing our holiday hiatus, Zoe's grandmother's stolen shoes as part of the exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Montreal, and what you can look forward to for the rest of the season.

    Minisode: Best Foot Forward for 2018

  3. 12/18/2017

    Episode 2: The Talk(Boys Behaving Badly)

    Conversations with Bat Mitzvah girls, confrontations with male friends, and an ongoing effort to improve the dialogue around sexual harassment and toxic masculinity in Jewish youth spaces. CW: sexual harassment, strong language, rape If you don't want to hear any detail involving these topics, we suggest you avoid 17:07 to 25:07 and 26:36 to 50:20.

    Episode 2: The Talk(Boys Behaving Badly)

  4. 11/30/2017

    Minisode: An 8th Grade Diary Entry from Emily Sirota

    Writer and performance artist Emily Sirota reads an entry from her 8th grade diary at The Talk: A Coming-of-Age Storytelling Event, hosted in partnership with the Oral History Fellowship at the Museum of Jewish Montreal on Tuesday November 28th, 2017. If it reminds you of a cringe story you want to share, drop us a line at 612-470-7330. See ya next week with a full length episode!

    Minisode: An 8th Grade Diary Entry from Emily Sirota

  5. 11/27/2017

    Episode 1: Cold Cuts and Chocolate Fountains ft. Adira

    If you heard a couple words you had to google today, you can find our ongoing Miss Mitzvah vocab list here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11kHRvH5ZDoo2vnxyF4QBAAEIEEazsAKF4lnG5zwZwng/edit?usp=sharing Welcome to Miss Mitzvah, episode one! To many of our friends in the US, happy Thanksgiving! If you’re listening this weekend, hunkering down and overeating in your childhood home, what better way to ease out of that queasy feeling with a somewhat related one. As you spend the weekend running into estranged friends at hometown bars, dodging questions about your relationship status, and how much you’ve “grown”, spend the next 30 minutes or so reflecting on adolescence, really leaning into those cringe worthy memories that only seem to surface around the holidays…. Over the course of the season we’re going to be discussing a wide range of experiences, diving deep into the Bat Mitzvah experience from different perspectives, with different people from all ends of the spiritual, religious, socioeconomic, and gender spectrum. We’ll be giving lil history and vocab lessons along the way and inviting all of you to lend your ears and and insights to the conversation. Today we’re starting simply- entering into the convo about Bat Mitzvahs with Adira. Adira is a friend of mine and fellow artist from Seacliff Long Island. I spent a day with Adira in September driving out from her apartment in Brooklyn to her parent’s house on Long Island where we talked about body image, putting yourself out there, and her Bat Mitzvah party experience.

  6. 11/13/2017

    Teaser

    This is the teaser for the upcoming podcast, Miss Mitzvah!

  • 6 Episodes

Ratings & Reviews

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About

Miss Mitzvah is an ongoing interactive installation and storytelling project conceived by Zoe Penina Baker which explores Bat Mitzvahs and coming-of-age rituals within a consumer-driven culture. Collecting narratives from young women in from across North America through hands-on workshops and interviews, the project exists as an ever-growing archive of stories and Bat Mitzvah dresses, invitations, photographs, and other objects and ephemera from the 1990s and 2000s. The Miss Mitzvah Podcast acts as a companion to the traveling exhibition, spotlighting participants in the project, and bringing stories of Jewish female identity and coming of age to your ears no matter where you are. Host: Zoe Penina Baker Producer and Composer: Sophia Lanman Editors: Will Owen Bennett, Julie Berube Special thanks to the Museum of Jewish Montreal and Jewish Public Library Archives.

Information

  • Creator
    Zoe Penina Baker & Sophia Lanman
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2018
  • Episodes
    6
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © All rights reserved
  • Show Website
    Miss Mitzvah