PERSON OF THE WEEK: Noemi Schlosser’s Tractor Factory
Host Ilene Prusher talks to Noemi Schlosser, a writer, producer, actor, and the artistic director of Salomee Speelt, a Belgian mixed-media theater company.
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MUSIC TO OUR EARS: Talkin’ bout a revolution
Nadav Appel, a lecturer at Bar Ilan University and a culture critic for Haaretz, talks about music during revolution.
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LET’S GET LIT: A trip to Judy Labensohn’s Writing Gym
Essayist and creative non-fiction writer Judy Labensohn reads from her story, “Follow Me: A Mother’s Day in the Israeli Army.”
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Getting to the ‘core’ of the Holocaust – Journeys
Host Rogel Alpher speaks to Prof. Dan Michman, Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem.
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Sholem Aleichem: ‘The Jewish Mark Twain’ – Israel in Translation
When Mark Twain heard of the writer called ‘the Jewish Mark Twain,’ he replied, “Please tell him that I am the American Sholem Aleichem.”
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Carlo Strenger on the Israeli Homo Globalis – Journeys
Dr. Carlo Strenger is an existential psychoanalyst, philosopher and political commentator. He joins Rogel Alpher in the studio to explain some of his theses, including the complexity of the modern Jewish identity.
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LET’S GET LIT: Writer and Prof. Nissim Calderon shares his views of the conflict
Professor Nissim Calderon, a writer and professor of Hebrew literature at Ben Gurion University, shares his views of the conflict, Amos Oz’s surprising statement to German radio station, and the songs we listen to in wartime.
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SEASON OF POSTPONEMENTS: Jerusalem Season of Culture still on, but scaled down
July was supposed to be the big kick-off of the Jerusalem Season of Culture, series of riveting artistic experiences spanning the worlds of dance, music, poetry, visual art and more. But some events were postponed and others scaled down to fit the somber mood and the heightened tensions in Jerusalem.
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COMIC RELIEF: Jerusalem performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Ilene Prusher reports from the thespian thicket and speaks to the co-founders of Theater in the Rough, Natan Skop and Beth Steinberg, on the upcoming Jerusalem performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
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Mendele Mocher Sforim: the grandfather of Yiddish literature – Israel in Translation
Today, Mendele Mocher Sforim is known as a quiet, Bauhaus-filled street that runs from Hayarkon to just past Shalom Aleichem. Yet in the late 18th century, Mendele Mocher Sforim, or ‘Mendele the book peddler,’ was an author who depicted the world of the shtetl (village) with all of its poverty and decay. He is now considered the…
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