Jüdische Studien und die Uni der Zukunft – ein Gespräch mit Susanne Plietzsch
Susanne Plietzsch ist Professorin für Judaistik und leitet seit 2010 das Zentrum für jüdische Kulturgeschichte der Universität Salzburg. Mit ihr sprechen wir über die Inhalte der Jüdischen Studien und das Salzburger Zentrum. Susanne Plietzsch begeistert sich für rabbinische Literatur und hier vor allem Midrasch. Ein wichtiges Anliegen ist es ihr, die Universität und insbesondere die Geisteswissenschaften zu befähigen, auf die Bedürfnisse der modernen Gesellschaft einzugehen.
Musik und Politik – Ein Gespräch mit der Musikwissenschaftlerin, Sängerin und Kulturaktivistin Isabel Frey
Muss jiddische Volksmusik immer Klezmer sein? Unser neuer Podcast stellt jiddische Arbeiterlieder a capella gesungen von Isabel Frey vor. Isabel bemüht sich um eine zeitgemäße Belebung des Gedankenguts des Allgemeinen jüdischen Arbeiterbunds, der bedeutendsten jiddischen politischen Bewegung vor der Shoah und im Zusammenhang damit um eine Stärkung der jüdischen Diaspora, besonders auf kulturellem und politischen Gebiet.
„Mein Ziel war es, arbeitenden Menschen zu ihrem Recht zu verhelfen“ – Ein Gespräch mit der Gewerkschafterin Dwora Stein
Dwora Stein war langjährige Bundesgeschäftsführerin der Gewerkschaft für Privatangestellte, der größten Gewerkschaft Österreichs. In unserem Gespräch beschäftigen wir uns mit der Frage, was es für eine jüdische intellektuelle Frau bedeutete, in der männerdominierten Gewerkschaftsbewegung Karriere zu machen, und welches ihre wichtigsten Errungenschaften waren. Außerdem sprechen wir über das vielfältige jüdische Engagement Dworas.
“Irma’s Passport” – Catherine Ehrlich’s Biography about her grandmother Irma Ehrlich
Jakob Ehrlich, Catherine’s grandfather was one of the most important Zionist politicians of Austria before the Shoah. After the Nazi takeover he was arrested immediately and deported to Dachau where he perished a few months later. His wife Catherine and son Paul escaped to England where Irma became a successful speaker and fundraiser for WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organization). She continued this career after her move to New York. After the war she assisted survivors with their restitution claims in Germany. Catherine Ehrlich explains why she focused her book on Irma and how she influenced her life.
The Janina-Project: Life and Work of the Polish Logician Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum (1899-1942)
This podcast takes you to Warsaw in the first half of the 20th century. Two philosophers, Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum (University of Vienna) and Marta Sznajder (University of Groningen) talk about the fascinating world of modern logic and mathematically oriented, anti-irrationalist philosophy as well as the new possibilities that opened up for women during World War I and in the interwar period in Warsaw. The Polish philosopher Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum became internationally acclaimed at an early age for her work in inductive logic. During the 1930s, she continuously published in top Polish and European philosophy journals, and presented her work at international conferences. Nevertheless, as a woman and a Jew she could never get a position at a Polish university and had to teach in a high-school. In September 1939, she was supposed to present her work on confirmation theory at the Unity of Science Congress held at Harvard University. However, the cost of the voyage across the Atlantic was prohibitive for a teacher like her, so she had to stay in Warsaw. While the attendance of this conference saved the lives of a number of her colleagues who had made it there, Janina became a victim of the holocaust. She was shot in 1942.
Family Issues through the Lens of Law – A Conversation with Daphna Hacker
Daphna Hacker, Professor at the Tel Aviv University Law Faculty and Head of the Women and Gender Studies Program at the Faculty of Humanities, explains the growing importance of improved legislation concerning transnational families. Daphna Hacker also demands changes in inheritance laws that would enable the elderly to secure the necessary care they need. Another topic of our conversation is the recent regression in women’s status in Israel, focusing on two main issues: the weakening of motherhood as a rewarding status, and women’s exclusion from the public sphere. .
“I Belong to Vienna” – A Conversation with Anna Goldenberg
Anna Goldenberg, born in 1989 in Vienna, studied psychology at the University of Cambridge and journalism at Columbia University, New York. She worked for the Jewish newspaper The Forward in New York before returning to Vienna where she now works for the weekly Der Falter and the daily Die Presse. Her book „I Belong to Vienna“ was published in 2018 by New Vessel Press and in German under the title „Versteckte Jahre. Der Mann, der meinen Großvater rettete“. (Hidden years. The man who saved my Grandfather) by Paul Zsolnay Verlag. In the podcast Anna Goldenberg discusses her family’s fate during the holocaust and after the war as well as her role as an author, journalist and granddaughter.
Jewish Women’s Aid – Fighting Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse of Women and Children
It is very often the home that is the most dangerous place for women and children. During the pandemic domestic violence has increased. As Rabbi Lee Wax, London, points out thatit can be found in all strata of society, in all ethnic or religious groups. Therefore, this phenomenon is also a problem for Jewish society. In her conversation with Rabbi Barbara Borts, Newcastel, Rabbi Lee Wax talks about the work and the aims of “Jewish Women’s Aid”, the first organization in Britain that supports Jewish victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse. She explains different forms of domestic violence and why it is important to have a specifically Jewish organization for Jewish victims.
Antisemitism and Gender in Hungary
Andrea Petö, Professor for Gender Studies at the Central European University, Vienna, talks with Anikó Félix, Budapest, about her research on women in far-right movements, antisemitism in Hungary and the relationship between antisemitism and Holocaust memory. Anikó Félix received her PhD in Sociology from Eötvös Lóránd Science University, Budapest, Hungary, in 2019. Her main fields of expertise are contemporary far right movements, subculture and parties, right-wing populism and antisemitism. In her research a major focus are gender aspects.
What’s a family? Women and Kinship in Contemporary Israel
The topic of this podcast has been at the center of the second international Bet Debora Conference of June 2001 in Berlin: The Jewish Family. More than twenty years later we are approaching this topic from a completely new angle. Barbara Prainsack, professor for political sciences at Vienna University, discusses with Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, professor for sociology and anthropology at Ben Gurion University, about the ways genetic technologies change our notions of family and the position of mothers in society.