Turn It Over Again

Zoe Steinfield
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Dade and Zoe adapt the tradition of khevruse — partnered text study — to examine popular Jewish art and entertainment, in conversation with many layers of Jewish history and thought.

Episodes

  1. Hebrew-Yiddish Language Wars & Shtisel

    09/09/2021

    Hebrew-Yiddish Language Wars & Shtisel

    In this first episode of Turn It Over Again, Dade and Zoe discuss the racial and gender politics of the "language wars" between Hebrew and Yiddish, the way both languages show up in the popular Netflix show Shtisel, and the idea of the Jews "keeping our language." Dade and Zoe discuss Lex (formerly known as Personals), which is a queer, text-based online dating service. The article of Dade's that Zoe references is "Decolonization Means Being in Process: On Sex and Embodied History." Talmudic works mentioned or referenced include Pirkei Avos, Mekhilta d'Rabbi Yishmael and Vayikra Rabbah.  Other pieces and writers we reference in this episode include: Sovetish Heymland In Geveb "They Did Not Change Their Names, Their Language, or their Dress" by Elli Fischer "What's the Truth About...the Jews in Egypt Keeping Their Jewish Names, Language and Dress?" by Ari Z. Zivotofsky. Redeeming Relevance by Rabbi Francis Nataf "Uri Zvi Before the Cross" by Uri Tsevi Grinberg/Uri Zvi Greenberg The Meaning of Yiddish by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav Language in Time of Revolution by Benjamin Harshav "Lawless Attachments, One-Night Stands: The Sexual Politics of the Hebrew-Yiddish Language War" by Naomi Seidman C. Riley Snorton Yiddish: A Nation of Words by Miriam Weinstein Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman "Yidish iz mayn mame" by Moyshe-Mortkhe Shafir Reyzl Zhikhlinski "Queer Yiddishkeit" by Jeffrey Shandler "'So the Kids Won't Understand': Inherited Futures of Jewish Women Writers" by Zohar Eeda Weiman-Kelman Irena Klepfisz Shtisel's Ghosts by Shayna Weiss Eddie Portnoy Tough Jews by Rich Cohen

    1h 29m
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Dade and Zoe adapt the tradition of khevruse — partnered text study — to examine popular Jewish art and entertainment, in conversation with many layers of Jewish history and thought.

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  • Creator
    Zoe Steinfield
  • Episodes
    1
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Zoe Steinfield
  • Show Website
    Turn It Over Again