Bet Debora - Jewish Women's Perspectives

Norli Lappin-Eppel spricht mit Shoshanna Duizend-Jensen, Historikerin und Archivarin, Tempelvorständin und Flüchtlingshelferin in Wien, über ihre Aktivitäten und die Stellung der Frauen in der orthodoxen jüdischen Gemeinde. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Andrea Petö, Professor for Gender Studies at the Central European University, Vienna, talks with Lori Weintrob, Professor of History and founding director of the Wagner College Holocaust Center, Staten Island, New York, and Laura Morowitz, who is currently researching issues of art in Nazi Vienna about the different forms of Jewish women’s heroism. They discuss why it is important to remember thes...

Norli Lappin-Eppel spricht mit Elisa Klapheck, Rabbinerin der liberalen Synagogengemeinschaft „Egalitärer Minjan“ in der Jüdischen Gemeinde in Frankfurt am Main und Professorin für Jüdische Studien an der Universität Paderborn darüber, was uns Rabbinerin Regina Jonas, die Philosophin Margarete Susman und die Judaistin Pnina Navé Levinson heute zu sagen haben. Außerdem zeigt sie den Zusammenhang zw...

In this podcast Andrea Petö, Professor of Gender Studies at the Central European University, Vienna, discusses the relationship of gender studies and Jewish studies with Paula de Villa from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and Veronique Sina from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. The speakers also reflect on the relationship between academia and politics and the necessity to comb...

In this podcast Norli Lappin-Eppel talks to Rabbi Barbara Borts from Newcastle, England. They talk about the challenges women rabbis and women cantors are faced with and about the importance of music in synagogue services. Rabbi Borts also explains the connection between Yiddish and Yiddishkait and the different forms the practice of Judaism can take. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...

Andrea Pető and Norli Lappin-Eppel talk with Simone Suskind from Bruxelles about her initiatives to foster a Jewish-Palestine dialogue as a way to reach a peaceful solution for the Middle East conflict. Simone talks about the Jewish Secular Center in Bruxelles, her achievements as a politician and her activities and ideas to fight antisemitism. Moreover, Simone describes her project of training wo...

Im neusten Podcast sprechen wir mit Martina Maschke aus Wien über die Bedeutung von jüdischer Erziehung im Allgemeinen und der Zwi Perez Chajes-Schule im Besonderen. Martina Maschke berichtet außerdem über die Verbesserung der Holocausterziehung in Österreich und die Zusammenarbeit mit Yad Vashem sowie über ihre Arbeit bei der International Holocaust Remembracne Alliance (IHRA), wo sie sich b...

In this podcast Tova Starik talks about her way from Zfat to New York and Vienna. In Vienna Tova and her husband Rabbi Moshe Starik established "Bayit", an organization that offers seminars for young Jewish professionals in order to help them to build Jewish homes in Europe. Tova also explains the philosophy of Chabad about lighting the spark in every Jew and bringing light to the world....

Norli Lappin-Eppel talks with Dominique Tomasov Blinder in Barcelona about Jewish life in Spain, about the renewed interest of the Spanish government  and the Spanish population in Jewish heritage 500 years after the expulsion of Jews from Spain and about her personal efforts to preserve this heritage and make it known to a broad national and international public. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

In this podcast, Rabbi Dr Barbara Borts, who lives in Newcastle, England, and Rabbi Ariel Friedlander, who lives in Modena, Italy, talk about fostering progressive Jewish life in Italy, about how various strands of Judaism in the UK are dealing with the pandemic, and about how their pets have helped them to cope during the lockdowns in the UK and Italy. They share their feelings about the positive...

In this podcast Norli Lappin-Eppel speaks with Prof. Andrea Petö, Professor for Gender Studies at the Central European University (CEU), about the reasons why her university had to move from Budapest to Vienna and how this reflects the situation in Hungary. We also look back at the 4th International Bet Debora Conference, which took place in Budapest in August 2006 and was hosted by the CEU. Anoth...

In ihrem neuen Buch „Vom Wert des Lebens“ tritt Barbara Prainsack für ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen für alle Menschen, die in Österreich ihren Lebensmittelpunkt haben, ein. Sie erklärt, warum dies gerade angesichts der durch die Corona-Pandemie ausgelösten Wirtschaftskrise notwendig und wie es die Situation von Frauen positiv beeinflussen würde. Music: Vermont Nocturne by Vally Weigl (1894...