Heritage Words
af HUC Jewish Language Project
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The All-Yiddish Household in California: Generational Continuity…
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Heritage Words features interviews about the words we've inherited and the meaning they bring to our lives. Heritage Words is produced by the HUC Jewish Language Project, which raises awareness about Jewish ancestral diversity through the lens of language, in partnership with HUC Connect. Sarah Bunin Benor is the host.
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- The All-Yiddish Household in California: Generational Continuity with Reyna Schaechter and Isaac Bleaman · 49 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 7Reyna Schaechter, a Yiddish heritage speaker and performer, and Isaac Bleaman, a linguistics professor at UC Berkeley, discuss raising their children in a monolingual Yiddish…
- Lezbitzen, Queeruv, and Gaymara: Queer Jewish Language with Miryam Kabakov and Eden Moyal · 47 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 6Miryam Kabakov, executive director of Eshel, and Eden Moyal, a sociolinguist, discuss the intersection of queer identity, Jewish languages, and Orthodox spaces. Eden details the…
- Curses and Code Switching: Dreaming in Yiddish with Sheldon Londner · 51 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 5Sheldon Londner, a secular Yiddishist raised in Los Angeles, shares the powerful legacy of his Polish survivor parents and his lifelong bond with the Yiddish language. Sheldon…
- From Calcutta to Philadelphia: Baghdadi-Indian Language and Identity with Rahel Musleah · 45 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 4Rahel Musleah, an award-winning journalist and educator, discusses her roots as a Baghdadi-Indian Jew from Calcutta. Rahel details the history of her name, explaining how the…
- Dementia Summons Dad’s Childhood Language: Preserving Kashi with Sabrina Hakim · 40 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 3Sabrina Hakim, an Iranian Jewish real estate administrator in Los Angeles, discusses her upbringing in Tehran and her family’s roots in Kashan. Sabrina describes migrating to…
- From Taylor Swift to Tehillim: Ashkenazi Identity and Modern Songwriting with Shep Rosenman · 49 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 2Shep Rosenman, an entertainment lawyer and songwriter, discusses his roots as an Ashkenazi Jew from Far Rockaway, New York. Shep details the origins of his names, explaining how…
- Polish Jewish Life Today with Marek Jezowski and Dominika Zakrzewska-Olędzka · 54 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 1Marek Jezowski and Dominika Zakrzewska-Olędzka, members of Warsaw's progressive Jewish community, discuss their experiences reclaiming their Jewish identity in today’s Poland…
- Jewish Unity Through Diversity: A Shabbat Conversation · 37 min. · Sæson 5 Episode 8How do you talk about Shabbat? Do you say Hamotsi or Nöten? Kiddush or ‘Adus? Attend knis, kenisa, kal, or shul? This episode features American Jews from various backgrounds –…
- Mediterranean Recipes and Rhythms: with Ariel Lazarus, Nissimmi Naim-Naor, and Samuel Torjman Thomas · 58 min. · Sæson 5 Episode 7Ariel Lazarus, Nissimmi Naim-Naor, and Samuel Torjman Thomas discuss their diverse Mediterranean Jewish roots spanning Morocco, Gibraltar, and Libya. The guests detail how family…
- "Will They Taste What We Taste?": Cooking Up Ladino with Benny Ginsberg-Margo · 49 min. · Sæson 5 Episode 6Growing up in a polyglot household, Benny Ginsberg-Margo developed a deep fascination with the intersection of language and identity. With mixed Sephardi and Ashkenazi roots, he…
- The Secret Language of Cattle Dealers: German-Jewish Roots with Ken and Hannelore Krug · 34 min. · Sæson 5 Episode 5Hannelore Krug, a German-Jewish immigrant, and her son Ken, a genealogy enthusiast, discuss their family's roots in Hesse-Nassau, Germany. They detail the family's history as…
- Bon Siman and Oy Vey: Jewish Papiamentu and Curaçao Yiddish with Michèle Russel-Capriles and Phyllis Meit · 41 min. · Sæson 5 Episode 4Michèle Russel-Capriles and Phyllis Meit of the Jewish Cultural Historical Museum in Curaçao discuss their roots as Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews on the island. Michèle details…
- Dancing on the Same Page: Multilingual Calligraphy and Bridge-Building with Ruben Shimonov · 43 min. · Sæson 5 Episode 3Ruben Shimonov, a multilingual educator and artist, discusses his roots as a Bukharian Jew from Uzbekistan. Ruben details the etymology of his names, explaining how the Russian…
- From Baghdad to London: Losing and Keeping Judeo-Iraqi Arabic with Samantha Ellis · 47 min. · Sæson 5 Episode 2Memoirist Samantha Ellis discusses her background as the daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees and her memoir about losing her ancestral tongue, Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. Samantha speaks…
- Singing from the Fragments: Iraqi-Ashkenazi Music with Yoni Avi Battat · 52 min. · Sæson 5 Episode 1Sarah Bunin Benor interviews musician Yoni Avi Battat, who discusses his background studying classical violin and his journey to bringing Arab music into the American Jewish…
- The Rabbi Who Rejected Yiddish: Mordecai Kaplan’s Vision with Jenna Weissman Joselit · 51 min. · Sæson 4 Episode 7Jenna Weissman Joselit discusses Restless Soul, her biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan. Jenna begins by exploring her own family’s linguistic history, including the myth of a…
- Chicken-Footed Demons and Synagogue Shouting: Venezuelan Sephardic Life with Joseph Bendahan · 38 min. · Sæson 4 Episode 6Meet Joseph Bendahan, a nuclear physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who grew up in Caracas, Venezuela. Joseph details his family’s Sephardic roots in the Moroccan…
- Bonus Episode: Ayuni: Foods of our Middle Eastern and North African Jewish Grandmothers · 52 min. · Sæson 4Today we want to introduce you to another podcast that we think you’ll like, Ayuni: Voices of our Jewish Grandmothers. On Heritage Words we discuss Jewish culture that's passed…
- Opera and Film: Christian and Jewish Neo-Aramaic with Nora Lacey and Alan Niku · 53 min. · Sæson 4 Episode 5• Sarah Bunin Benor interviews Nora Lacey, founder of the Assyrian Arts Institute, and Alan Niku, a filmmaker and scholar of Mizrahi culture. Together, they explore the…
- How an 11-Year-Old Learned a Dying Language: Lishan Didan with Sam Miller · 42 min. · Sæson 4 Episode 4Sarah Bunin Benor interviews Sam Miller, a computational linguist of mixed Ashkenazi and Nash-Didan heritage. Sam details his maternal roots in the cosmopolitan city of Urmia…
