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5 天前

The Rest of Mankind

In 1654, the first Jews arrived in New Amsterdam. Sephardic refugees from Recife, Brazil, they came to the Dutch-controlled colony to escape the Spanish/Portuguese Inquisition. These 23 individuals became the anchor of a fledging Jewish community in the colonies, and over the next century and beyond, American Jews found their place in society, commerce, and soon, revolution. From patriots to loyalists, this episode featuring historians Laura Arnold Leibman and Adam Jortner kicks off our new podcast series with stories pulled from some of the oldest and rarest materials from the AJHS archives. Hosted by AJHS executive director Gemma R. Birnbaum. Episode Image: Haym Salomon (1740-1785) served as a Patriot spy in British-occupied New York during the Revolutionary War. He later used his financial skills to help keep the U.S. government solvent in the 1780s. From the collection of the American Jewish Historical Society, P-41. All We Have Standing Between Us is made possible thanks to generous funding from the Knapp Family Foundation. Additional funding provided by the Leon Levy Foundation, the Achelis and Bodman Foundation, the Atran Foundation, and Anonymous.

5 天前

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21 分鐘
5 天前

A Leap Into the Unknown

During the American Civil War, the majority of Jews supported the Union, due to larger populations living in the North. Much like the American population at large, however, Jews in America were divided in their allegiances, representing a small but significant minority in the South as the Confederacy waged its war. Jews fiercely fought on both sides of the conflict, but not without facing the same antisemitism that had been a stain on the country before its division, most notably through General Grant's Order No. 11, which called for the expulsion of Jews from multiple southern communities. Featuring Shari Rabin and Adam Mendelsohn, and hosted by AJHS Executive Director Gemma R. Birnbaum. Episode Image: Confederate bank note from 1864, from the Judah P. Benjamin Collection at the American Jewish Historical Society, P-45. All We Have Standing Between Us is made possible thanks to generous funding from the Knapp Family Foundation. Additional funding provided by the Leon Levy Foundation, the Achelis and Bodman Foundation, the Atran Foundation, and Anonymous. Special thanks to SOFA Entertainment.

5 天前

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27 分鐘
第 1 季預告

Coming Soon: All We Have Standing Between Us

All We Have Standing Between Us is a compelling narrative series from the American Jewish Historical Society. Featuring untold stories from the archives and a slate of special guests, listeners will be taken on a journey through the history of the United States and the Great Democratic Experiment, told through the lives of the American Jews who not just lived through it, but helped shape it. Narrated by AJHS Executive Director Gemma R. Birnbaum. All We Have Standing Between Us is made possible thanks to generous funding from the Knapp Family Foundation. Additional funding provided by the Leon Levy Foundation, the Achelis and Bodman Foundation, the Atran Foundation, and Anonymous.

第 1 季預告

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3月24日

Los Angeles

In 1978 Bill and his wife Isa left New York City for Los Angeles, first living in Venice Beach before settling in the vibrant Jewish community of Pico Robertson. After raising a family and having a prolific career, Bill considers Los Angeles to be his home. Alongside his project-based photography, Bill also documented his daily Jewish life of raising two sons with Isa, as well as the lives of the friends and community around him – including our host Ruthie, who moved with her family from NYC sometime after Bill migrated. As Bill became more enmeshed in the Jewish community of Los Angeles, his photography was enlisted to support the work of the United Jewish Appeal and the movement to free Soviet Jews. Several of Bill's images depicting modern Jewish life can also be found at the Skirball Museum. Join Bill and Ruthie for our final episode, as they consider the photographs that captured their lives in Los Angeles. The World in Front of Me is presented by Jay and Gretchen Stein, with generous support from the Knapp Family Foundation, the Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation in Honor of Alan Bloch, Scott and Dianne Einhorn, The Karetsky Family, and Michael and Corie Koss. Image Credit: Dancing Skater, Venice, CA, 1982, Bill Aron

3月24日

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21 分鐘
2月3日

Introducing Bill Aron

From a young age, Bill Aron was drawn to photography, but never considered it as a career. Losing his father and mother in childhood, he was pulled by a desire to freeze time and capture moments, a power he discovered in photographs. After completing his PhD in sociology at the University of Chicago, he found himself spending more time in darkrooms and behind a camera than doing any work related to his field. As a young man, he was deeply influenced by the heyday of street photography in 1960s and 1970s New York, and was inspired by two distinct Jewish communities he found inhabiting the city: the Jewish immigrants of the Lower East Side, and Upper West Side Jews who were creating a new counter-culture movement known as the Havurah. It was in this Upper West Side community where he met our host, Ruth Andrew Ellenson - or Ruthie, as he knows her. Their familial relationship would span decades. As Bill's career took off, he became known for his work documenting Jewish life, including Ruthie's personal milestones and Jewish rites of passage (complete with questionable fashion choices that she bemoans seeing printed 5 feet high). Now an author and journalist, Ruthie sat down with Bill to learn about his life's work, and the stories that accompany his incredible career. In this first episode, host Ruth Andrew Ellenson introduces us to photographer Bill Aron, and the world he found in front of him. The World in Front of Me is presented by Jay and Gretchen Stein, with generous support from the Knapp Family Foundation, the Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation in Honor of Alan Bloch, Scott and Dianne Einhorn, The Karetsky Family, and Michael and Corie Koss. Image credit: Marvin Steindler

2月3日

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17 分鐘
2月3日

New York

Bill Aron and his wife Isa moved to New York City in 1974, during the heyday of urban street photography. Looking for a career change, but with no clear idea on what he should do, Bill turned to his camera to fill his days. He began to document his Jewish world: the Lower East Side where he worked, and the Upper West Side Havurah Community, where he found fellowship and a radical method of Jewish observance. The Havurah is also where he met our host, Ruth Ellenson, then only a small child. Bill and Ruth reminisce about their first impressions of each other - Bill as a long-haired hippie, and Ruth as a charismatic, outgoing kid. Guest expert Deborah Dash Moore illuminates the field of New York City street photography in this era, and how Bill's work and approach compares to his contemporaries, guiding us through the Jewish neighborhoods of New York and the uniqueness of the counter-culture Havurah movement. During this period, Bill's hobby evolved into a profession. And thanks to his documentary photography, 1970's Jewish New York has a significant historical record. The World in Front of Me is presented by Jay and Gretchen Stein, with generous support from the Knapp Family Foundation, the Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation in Honor of Alan Bloch, Scott and Dianne Einhorn, The Karetsky Family, and Michael and Corie Koss. Image credit: NYC Subway, 1977, Bill Aron.

2月3日

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25 分鐘
3月17日

Israel

Bill has traveled to Israel numerous times since his first visit as an undergraduate in 1961. In 1980, and again in 2010, he returned, no longer a student, but a professional photographer, seeking to capture everyday life in historic spaces. With each trip, Bill's stories provide a unique perspective of not only an individual growing and maturing, but also his experience witnessing a country age and transform. From a young student hitchhiking to a professional photographer capturing daily life outside the Damascus Gate. We learn how Israel inspired Bill to experiment as an artist, from abstract photography to harnessing new technology to create giant panoramas. Commentary from Michael Brenner, the Lillian Abensohn Chair of Israel Studies at American University in Washington D.C. will provide historical context to the changes that Bill encounters with each passing visit. The World in Front of Me is presented by Jay and Gretchen Stein, with generous support from the Knapp Family Foundation, the Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation in Honor of Alan Bloch, Scott and Dianne Einhorn, The Karetsky Family, and Michael and Corie Koss. Image Credit: Western Wall, Jerusalem, 1980, Bill Aron.

3月17日

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27 分鐘
2月17日

The American South

In the early 1990's Bill Aron was approached by Macy Hart and Vicki Reikes Fox of the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience to document Jewish life in the American South. Never having spent much time in that area of the world, Bill figured that the project would be completed rather quickly, "South, deep South—how many Jews could there be? One or two trips, it'll be done." The project would last over a decade and result in a book Shalom, Y'all: Images of Jewish Life in the American South, which was published in 2002, as well as an exhibition that was on view at institutions like the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in New Orleans. Project director and author Vicki Reikes Fox joins us to give her commentary on the project, along with current Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience Director Kenneth Hoffman, for historical context. Bill shares stories about southern cooking, intermarriage, mercantile salesmen, and matchmaking. The World in Front of Me is presented by Jay and Gretchen Stein, with generous support from the Knapp Family Foundation, the Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation in Honor of Alan Bloch, Scott and Dianne Einhorn, The Karetsky Family, and Michael and Corie Koss. Image Credit: Henrietta Levine Chopped Chicken Liver, Pine Bluff, AR, 1991, Bill Aron.

2月17日

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21 分鐘
3月3日

Personal Transformations

Bill lost both his parents at a young age; his father when he was 9 years old, and his mother when he was in high school. When Bill was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 50, a part of him felt that this was a foregone conclusion. In an effort to feel less isolated, Bill began to seek support and connect with others who were also battling cancer, and those who had gone into remission. What he encountered surprised him. Cancer patients and survivors saw their experience as an opportunity to change their lives for the better. Inspired by their fortitude and optimism, Bill set out to capture the portraits and stories of these survivors in what would become the book New Beginnings: The Triumphs of 120 Cancer Survivors. Bill and Ruthie discuss the power of photography to freeze time, and its ability to take an ephemeral moment and make it last. A family photograph from Bill's childhood allows him to travel back in time, and today he documents his own family, creating a kind of time capsule that his own sons will be able to travel back to. The World in Front of Me is presented by Jay and Gretchen Stein, with generous support from the Knapp Family Foundation, the Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation in Honor of Alan Bloch, Scott and Dianne Einhorn, The Karetsky Family, and Michael and Corie Koss. Image Credit: Brandon Schott, 2009, Bill Aron.

3月3日

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20 分鐘
第 2 季第 4 集

The Professors

College professors and other educators were among those targeted by anti-communists, but the search for Communist Party members in the U.S. education system began much earlier. The so-called "Red-ucators" were among the first deemed subversives, and Harvard University, City College of New York, and many other schools were rocked by hundreds of subpoenas, calling them to testify in front of special committees that were formed to weed out communists in education. Morris Schappes, an English professor in the CUNY system and member of the American Communist Party, was one of these educators, and became a prominent symbol of the quest to purge school systems of subversives. Narrated by Rebecca Naomi Jones and featuring Gemma R. Birnbaum, executive director of the American Jewish Historical Society. Image: May Day Labor Parade, New York College Teachers Union 1930's - 1940's. From the Morris U. Schappes Papers at AJHS, P-57. The Wreckage is made possible by funding from the Ford Foundation. Additional funding is provided through the American Jewish Education Program, generously supported by Sid and Ruth Lapidus.

第 2 季第 4 集

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The Rest of Mankind

A Leap Into the Unknown

Coming Soon: All We Have Standing Between Us

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Introducing Bill Aron

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Personal Transformations

The Professors

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