Southern & Jewish

This legacy episode of Southern & Jewish originally aired on Mar 23, 2021. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and watch all of our past episodes at www.isjl.org/podcast.html .  Join Southern & Jewish for Southern Jewish Music: Klezmer and Bluegrass. We're talking about the intersections between these musical traditions, the experiences of bluegrass performers who happen to...

This legacy episode of Southern & Jewish originally aired on February 23, 2021. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and watch all of our past episodes at www.isjl.org/podcast.html .    Join Southern & Jewish for a celebration of Jews and country music. It may seem like an unusual combination, but the intersection of Judaism and Americana music has been expanding ever since t...

This legacy episode of Southern & Jewish originally aired on June 28, 2022. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and watch all of our past episodes at www.isjl.org/podcast.html .    The story of south Florida is a story of boom and bust, of destruction and creation, of capitalism and its discontents. It's a story that is interpreted in Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical...

This legacy episode of Southern & Jewish originally aired on March 29, 2022. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and watch all of our past episodes at www.isjl.org/podcast.html .    Welcome back for another showstopping season of Southern & Jewish, a video podcast from the Institute of Southern Jewish Life! To kick off 2024, we are excited to share with y’all a month of musi...

This legacy episode of Southern & Jewish originally aired on December 22, 2020. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and watch all of our past episodes at www.isjl.org/podcast.html .  Happy holidays! Join us for our final episode of 2023, featuring personal insights about southern Jewish retail businesses, reflections on Christmas shopping at Jewish stores, and conversations abou...

This legacy episode of Southern & Jewish originally aired on May 2, 2023. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and watch all of our past episodes at www.isjl.org/podcast .    Happy Jewish Book Month! This week we will be highlighting our conversation with poet Elisheva Fox and her book Spellbook for the Sabbath Queen .   Elisheva Fox’s debut poetry collection, Spellbook for the S...

This legacy episode of Southern & Jewish originally aired on May 31, 2022. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and watch all of our past episodes at www.isjl.org/podcast.html .    Happy Jewish Book Month! This week we will be highlighting our conversation with author and historian Samantha Rosenthal (she/her or they/them) and her book Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belong...

The ISJL tour season is fast approaching, and we've extended the registration deadline to November 15, 2023!    This legacy episode of  Southern & Jewish previews some of the people and places around Natchez, Mississippi that you'll get to know on our February 2024 tour: Jewish Life in the Most Southern Place on Earth.   Natchez, a historic Mississippi River hub, is where histories of Native A...

The ISJL tour season is fast approaching! This legacy episode of Southern & Jewish previews some of the people and places around the Mississippi Delta you'll get to know on our February 2024 tours.  Enjoy the video, and join us on Thursday, October 12 at 7:30 PM Central for an information session about our upcoming trips. Register at  bit.ly/InfoSessionOct . We'd love to see you there!  For ad...

This legacy episode of Southern & Jewish originally aired on October 13, 2021. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and watch all of our past episodes at www.isjl.org/podcast.html .  In this episode, we’ll unpack one moment in the history of southern Jews and Civil Rights: Rabbi Milton Grafman’s Rosh Hashanah sermon at Birmingham’s Temple Emanu-El in September 1963. Reeling from...

This legacy episode of Southern & Jewish originally aired on November 15, 2022. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and watch all of our past episodes at www.isjl.org/podcast.html . In celebration of the harvest season, Southern & Jewish is diving into the story of southern Jewish farmers. Some Jewish families have been doing this work for generations—including the Lamensdor...

This legacy episode of Southern & Jewish originally aired on January 24, 2022. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and watch all of our past episodes at www.isjl.org/podcast.html .  Join Southern & Jewish for a live conversation with Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South and The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of...

Join Southern & Jewish for a celebration of southern Jewish restaurants. In this episode, we're visiting these iconic businesses to learn about their histories, how they've changed over time, the central role they play in their communities, and, of course, the best things on their menus. This episode features Kosher Cajun, Rimon at Tulane Hillel, Kenny & Ziggy's, and Jackson's own Olde Tym...

For southern Jews, romance has often been a fraught topic. Many southern and American Jews are deeply invested in endogamy (Jews marrying other Jews), which has manifested in a variety of rituals and traditions from social weekends like Ballyhoo in Atlanta to Jewish summer camp to the modern advent of dating apps. Historically and in the present, southern Jews have found romantic partners within a...

Summer camp season is coming to an end, and we're diving into stories of southern Jewish camping. Join us as we reminisce about our home away from home. Whether you grew up at Jewish summer camp or not, you can find some summer magic in these stories. This legacy episode  of Southern & Jewish originally aired on September 8, 2020. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and watch al...

Meet Lowen, a Nashville-based producer, songwriter, and artist whose fluid indie rock songs are shaped by her experiences as a world traveler, touring artist, and south Florida native. For the latest episode of the Southern & Jewish podcast, we spoke about her creative process, the ways in which Jewishness inflects her music, and the transition to life in Nashville.   Links from the episode: Lowen...

Welcome to Southern & Jewish, a video podcast from the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL). Formerly the ISJL Virtual Vacation, Southern & Jewish shares stories of southern Jewish history and culture, featuring experts from across the region. Southern & Jewish introduces you to the South’s vibrant cultural heritage, the big themes of southern Jewish history, the folks work...