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Recognizably Jewish
by Recognizably Jewish
Recognizably Jewish is a podcast where we explore the Jewish cultural inheritance. Hosted by Jason Spitalnick.
Episodes
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Episode 012 - The New York Jewish Law Firm
In the mid 1950s, more than half of the lawyers in New York City were Jewish, and Jewish law students consistently graduated in the top ranks of the best law schools. But the elite crop of New York law firms had firmly established White Anglo Saxon Protestant identities and either didn’t hire…
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Episode 011 - Marc Chagall
There are many Jewish artists who flourished during the 20th century. Mark Rothko. Amedeo Modigliani. Barnett Newman. Diane Arbus. Lee Krasner. Roy Lichtenstein. But no other visual artist was or is as closely associated with Jewish themes and imagery as Marc Chagall. Today on the Recognizably...
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Episode 010 - Sholem Aleichem
SHOW NOTES You may not know who Sholem Aleichem is. Or you may just assume he’s a fusty old Yiddish author. But if you’ve ever laughed at an episode of Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm, you should know about Sholem Aleichem. If you’ve ever enjoyed a movie by Mel Brooks or Woody Allen, you should...
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Episode 009 - Documenting Survivors (with Dana Arschin and Brian Marcus)
Today, January 27, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Episode 9 of the Recognizably Jewish podcast is a deeply meaningful discussion with two people who have devoted their talents to documenting Holocaust survivors. Dana Arschin is an award-winning journalist and the official Storyteller...
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Episode 008 - Klezmer
When you hear klezmer music, you know it’s Jewish. You can feel it. But why? It’s not like klezmer melodies, instrumentation, or styles are prescribed by the Torah. The answer, of course, is culture. Klezmer has been a part of Jewish culture for hundreds of years. Listen to today’s episode of...
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Episode 007 - Semite, Hebrew, Israelite, Jew
For this first Recognizably Jewish episode of 2025, we’re going to talk about four words that everyone understands refer to Jewish people – Semite, Hebrew, Israelite, and Jew. The words, and derivations of the words, are used all the time. For many, the words are themselves part of one’s identity...
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Episode 006 - Bagels
Episode 6 of Recognizably Jewish is all about the best-known and best-loved of Jewish foods - the humble but mighty bagel. You’ll learn when and how the bagel developed as a Jewish food in medieval Poland, as well as about the bagel’s arrival in, and impact on, America in the 20th century. And...
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Episode 005 - The Borscht Belt
The region of the Catskills that became known as the Borscht Belt was the social epicenter of American Jewish life in the middle part of the 20th century. At its peak, it had more than 500 hotels and over 50,000 bungalows, and catered to hundreds of thousands of Jewish visitors each year. The...
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Episode 004 - The Star of David
Some representative symbols are uniquely Jewish. The menorah is the classic example. That’s not true for the Star of David, which is not mentioned in the Torah, in other parts of the Hebrew bible, or in the Talmud. Because it’s such a simple geometric figure, the Star of David has been used as a...
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Episode 003 - David Ben-Gurion
When he was born in Poland in 1886, there was no indication that David Grün would go on to greatness–let alone the singular greatness he achieved as David Ben-Gurion, the founding giant of the sovereign nation of Israel. So how did he go from an unremarkable youth in Tsarist Poland to a strident...
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Episode 002 - Jewish Surnames
The widespread adoption of Western-style hereditary surnames by Ashkenazi Jewish communities didn’t happen until around 200 years ago. Why is that? And when it did happen, how did certain names–names like Schwartz, Segal, Katz, Goldberg, Rosenthal, and Weissman–become so recognizably Jewish? How...
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Episode 001 - Shalom
Welcome to Recognizably Jewish, the podcast where we explore the Jewish cultural inheritance. Hosted by Jason Spitalnick. This is Episode 1: Shalom. You can find the podcast wherever you listen: Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube, etc. To find links, you can go to our website:...
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