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We are right at the beginning of what some have called "The 21st Century Jewish Cultural Renaissance," and The Genesis is the podcast watching it unfold, in real time and up close.
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S4E9 Best of: When the Stories We Tell Ourselves Stop Working (w/ Tom Haviv) (opens the original)
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Anyone who takes Jewish sacred texts seriously has to care about how we interpret these stories, which means how these storeis and myths are re-told, invested with new dimensions and meanings, in each generation. The stories would get old and become dead, useless, if we insisted that they mean to us what they meant to a jew who lived 1000 years ago. They gain life when we renarrate them, so to speak. We are grappling in America and Israel both, with the collapse of earlier narratives about what
S4E8 "Best of": How do We Face Competing Narratives of the Past? (w/ Rebecca Clarren) (opens the original)
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My guest today is journalist Rebecca Clarren . Her work has appeared in Mother Jones , High Country News , The Nation , and Indian Country Today . For her reporting, she's won a Hillman Prize, received an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, and earned multiple grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. But as you'll hear in our conversation, she's much more than a journalist. Her debut novel, which we touch on, is Kickdown , which was shortlisted for the PEN Bellwether Prize. Clarren
S4E7 "Best of": Is Judaism Fundamentally an Artistic Tradition? (opens the original)
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S4E6 Why One Artist Is Turning to Tradition to Innovate (opens the original)
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In this episode, I sit down with multi-instrumentalist David Rosman — guitarist, violinist, and klezmer devotee — to talk about how he found his way into klezmer music not through inheritance, but through a winding path: John Zorn's avant-garde Jewish compositions, a deep dive into Zohar and Jewish mysticism, and an eventual hunger for community that led him back to tradition. We discuss what "appropriate innovation" looks like inside a musical tradition whose continuity was violently severed, t
S4E5 Best-Of Episode: Israeli Master Musician Yair Dalal (opens the original)
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This is a re-release of Season 3 Episode 43. Welcome to The Genesis . If you heard my episode with Eric Stern, then you already know that today's guest will be performing at the Portland Jewish Music Festival on Saturday, May 16. If you have not heard that episode, go back and listen to it—you will hear about all the remarkable things happening at this year's festival. I was especially grateful to have the chance to speak with today's guest, Yair Dalal. Because I was able to talk with Yair befor
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