July 03, 2011

Broadcast Date: 
Jul 3 2011

Zochrot educates Israeli Jews about the Nakba; we speak with Joseph Dorman, director of the new documentary Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness; and a conversation with André Schiffrin about his latest book, Words and Money, on the crisis in US publishing and lessons from cultural preservation policies being followed elsewhere in the world. Plus we remember Esther Broner, novelist, playwright, and feminist thinker.

Episode segments
  • Zochrot
    Israeli Politics, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Amaya Galili is the director of education and assistant manager of Zochrot.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Zochrot (“Remembering”) is an Israeli organization dedicated to raising Israeli-Jewish awareness of the Nakba (“Catastrophe”) that befell the Palestinian people with the establishment of Israel in 1948. We talk with Amaya Galili, Zochrot’s Director of Education, about why it is essential for Israel Jews to grapple with what happened in 1948 and why its legacy persists.

  • Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
    Film, Arts & Culture

    p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; Documentary filmmaker and founder of Riverside Films, Joseph Dorman’s latest film is Sholeim Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness, which opens July 8th at Lincoln Plaza Cinema in Manhattan.

    Alisa Solomon

    Scholem Aleichem is arguably the most popular Yiddish writer in America, best known as the creator of Tevye, the protagonist of Fiddler on the Roof.  In his new film, Scholem Aleichem:Laughing in the Darkness, Joe Dorman reveals the darker, more complex man behind the literary persona.

     

  • Words and Money
    National Politics, Domestic Policy, Arts & Culture, News media
    André Schiffrin was, for 30 years, the Managing Director of Pantheon Books and, in 1990, the founder of the not-for-profit publisher, The New Press. Words and Money is a sequel to his earlier book, The Business of Books.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    André Schiffrin talks with us about what's behind the crisis in U.S. media and what we can learn from the policies being followed elsewhere in the world to protect independent booksellers, filmmakers and other media from the corporate behemoths.