Podcasts by Vox Tablet
This is Vox Tablet, the weekly podcast of Tablet Magazine, the online Jewish arts and culture magazine that used to be known as Nextbook.org. Our archive of podcasts is available on our site, tablet2015.wpengine.com. Vox Tablet, hosted by Sara Ivry, varies widely in subject matter and sound -- one week it's a conversation with novelist Michael Chabon, theater critic Alisa Solomon, or anthropologist Ruth Behar. Another week brings the listener to "the etrog man" hocking his wares at a fruit-juice stand in a Jersualem market. Or into the hotel room with poet and rock musician David Berman an hour before he and his band, Silver Jews, head over to their next gig. Recent guests include Alex Ross, Shalom Auslander, Aline K. Crumb, Howard Jacobson, and the late Norman Mailer.
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So Long, Farewell from 2016-06-24T04:30
Since 2005, the Vox Tablet team—producer Julie Subrin and host Sara Ivry—have done our best to create a Jewish podcast with conversations, stories, and reports from across the Jewish cultural world...
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Louis Brandeis: The Jewish Boy From Kentucky Who Became a Supreme Court Legend from 2016-06-15T04:00
Exactly a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson nominated Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court. After a contentious confirmation process, he became the first Jewish justice, serving on the bench for...
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Tanya's Story from 2016-06-08T04:00
Tanya Zajdel grew up in a Hasidic family in Montreal and was excited to embark on her life as a wife and mother after marrying a charismatic rabbinical student when she was 19. It didn’t take long,...
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A New Kind of Prayerbook from 2016-05-11T04:01
Earlier this year, the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement put out a new prayer book, or siddur. Siddur Lev Shalem, which means ‘full heart,’ is full of innovations. There are new tran...
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Hey Mister DJ, Put a (Diaspora-Blending, Genre-Bending) Record On from 2016-04-25T04:01
Rob Weisberg, the host of the world music radio program Transpacific Sound Paradise, joins Vox Tablet host Sara Ivry to talk about a trio of new genre-bending projects: A-Wa, Sandaraa, and Schizoph...
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From Kooky Waif to A-List Beauty: The Story of Barbra StreisandUntitled Episode from 2016-04-13T04:01
Barbra Streisand turns 75 next year. In her 50-plus year career, she has made her mark on the silver screen, on Broadway, in nightclubs, and on the record charts. Her beginnings were humble—she gre...
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What's Free Will Got To Do With It? from 2016-03-30T04:01
Especially in election season, we love talking about the moral fiber (or lack thereof) of our candidates. But when it comes to ethics, no man—or woman—is an island. Host Sara Ivry talks to Professo...
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Builders of a New Jerusalem from 2016-03-18T04:01
Host Sara Ivry talks to writer Adina Hoffman about her new book, Till We Have Built Jerusalem, which brings to life three architects who transformed the city in the days of the British Mandate.
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Bathe in the Waters from 2016-03-02T05:01
Traditionally, Orthodox Jews submerge themselves in mikvehs—ritual baths—to purify themselves. Producer Hannah Reich has always been drawn to water—to rivers, oceans, pools—and was fascinated by th...
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How Thanksgiving Became Holy for One Iranian Jewish Woman and Her Family from 2013-11-19T04:00:54
Esther Amini’s mother—or...
Famous People’s Reflections on Being Jewish, Now Rendered on Stage, in Song from 2013-11-14T04:00:02
When producer Aaron...
Femmes Fatales: How German Women Used Femininity for Evil During World War II from 2013-11-04T04:00:41
We know from witness tes...
On the Making of ‘Aftermath,’ the Controversial Polish Film Now Opening in the U.S. from 2013-10-28T04:00:08
Last year, a film was re...
The Show That Made the World Fall in Love With the Jews and Grow Nostalgic for Tevye from 2013-10-21T04:00:12
It’s fairly common nowadays to hear renditions of “Sunrise, Sunset,” for instance, or “The Sabbath Prayer,” memorable melodies from the Fiddler on the Roof, at bar mitzvahs or weddings....
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Painting a Portrait of a Political, Literary and Journalistic Powerhouse from 2013-10-14T04:00:09
For most of its first 50-plus years, the Yiddish language Jewish Daily Forward (now 116 years old) was edited by its founder, Abraham Cahan. Cahan was ...
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From Teen Chronicler of Yiddish Curses to Global Fame: Sholem Aleichem’s Multitudes from 2013-10-07T04:00:25
When people hear the name Sholem Aleichem, they very often think of Tevye the Dairyman and his Broadway showstoppers. It’s true, Sholem Aleichem wrote the stories on which Fiddler on the Roo...
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Seeing the Strengths and Pitfalls of a Whole Country in the Lives of Seven Paratroopers from 2013-10-01T04:00:20
In June of 1967, the world watched with disbelief as the young Israeli army turned a perilous threat—enemy troops gathering at its borders—into a tremendous military victory. The symbol of that ...
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Amos Oz, 74 Years Old and a National Treasure, Still Dreams of Life on the Kibbutz from 2013-09-23T04:00:59
There’s no other living Israeli author who is as well known around the world as Amos Oz. Inside Israel, he’s one of the country’s most respected cultural figures. Oz has lived a tumultuous life. Wh...
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Alan Berliner’s Newest Cinematic Poem Reflects on a Relative With Alzheimer’s from 2013-09-16T04:00:46
For nearly 30 years, the filmmaker Alan Berliner has made uniquely personal documentaries that mine his life and the lives of his relatives, chipping a...
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Helène Aylon’s Journey From Rebbetzin to Internationally Acclaimed Feminist Artist from 2013-09-09T04:00:52
Helène Aylon grew up in Borough Park, Brooklyn, in a tight-knit world of Orthodox families. From early on, she was a bit of a rebel, but that didn’t sto...
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Ancient Roman Jews Meet Wartime Partisans on a Raucous and Lush Avant-rock Album from 2013-09-03T04:00:54
When guitarist and composer Dan Kaufman headed to Rome in 2009 to study the liturgical melodies of the city’s ancient Jewish community, he stumbled upon the site of a famous partisan attack agai...
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A New Era of Anti-Semitism Is Here. Daniel Goldhagen Blames Globalization. from 2013-08-29T04:00:11
In 1996, Daniel Goldhagen unleashed a fury of controversy when he published the book Hitler’s Willing Executioners, in which he argued that the Holoc...
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