July 18, 2010

Broadcast Date: 
Jul 18 2010

We speak with Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer, authors of Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish History, and with Judith Shulevitz, author of The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time.

Episode segments
  • Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory
    Arts & Culture, Jewish Communities, Jewish Life, Literature

    Marianne Hirsch teaches at Columbia University where she is the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature.  She also teaches at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

    Leo Spitzer teaches at Dartmouth College where he is the Vernon Professor of History Emeritus.  He is the author of many books, most recently Hotel Bolivia: A Culture of Memory in a Refugee from Nazism.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory and History is both an historical account of a German Jewish Eastern European culture that flourished from the mid-19th century to World War II, and a family and communal memoir that spans three generations and explores the afterlife in history and memory of Czernowitz.

  • The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
    Religion, Arts & Culture, Jewish Life, Literature
    Judith Shulevitz is a writer and cultural critic, a former culture editor of Slate, columnist for the New York Times, and a onetime editor of Lingua Franca.  She has also written for The New Republic and The New Yorker.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    The Sabbath World is part memoir, part an exploration of the history of the Jewish and Christian Sabbaths and part an examination of the idea that the Sabbath still has a place in our secular, wired world.