Heading North: Ep. 394

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, it’s our final episode of 2023. We bring you the latest installment of The Archive, our series exploring the collection of the National Library of Israel. This one is all about Franz Kafka: his feelings on Zionism, his attempts to learn Hebrew, and the tangled web in which his manuscripts were trapped. Then, we hear from Israeli historian and political commentator Gadi Taub about his new video podcast, Israel Update, which he hosts alongside the Hudson Institute’s Michael Doran. You can follow along on Tablet at tabletmag.com/israelupdate. Finally, we’re sharing another installment of our country-crossing series, Across the JEW.S.A, created with the support of the Jewish Federations of North America. Liel travels north to Montreal to visit one of the oldest Jewish communities in Canada. You can catch up on all our travels Across the JEW.S.A. at tabletmag.com/jewsa. Write to us at unorthodox@tabletmag.com, or leave a voicemail on our listener line: . Find out about our upcoming events at tabletmag.com/unorthodoxlive. To book us for a live show or event, email Tanya Singer at tsinger@tabletmag.com. Unorthodox is produced by Tablet Studios. Check out all of our podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. SPONSORS: NLI, the National Library of Israel, proudly supports our series The Archive. Discover the treasures, collections, and stories of the National Library of Israel here. Simplify your giving with the Jewish Communal Fund, the nation's largest Jewish donor-advised fund. Act by December 29th to lock in the maximum charitable deduction for 2023. Get started at JCFNY.org. The Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards honor up to 15 Jewish teens from across the United States with an award of $36,000 to recognize their impact and leadership to repair the world. Learn more at DillerTeenAwards.org. Don’t miss Harmony, the acclaimed new musical from Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman that Entertainment Weekly calls “powerful, moving and more resonant than ever.” Get tickets today at HarmonyANewMusical.com.

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0:00.0	This is Unorthodox, the universe's leading Jewish podcast.
0:07.8	I'm Joshua Molina and I'm all alone.
0:11.6	Can you believe they let me have the keys to the place? I've got the
0:14.0	podcast all to myself, which means I could say anything. But I'm a principled man, so I
0:19.8	won't. That's what my Twitter account is for. Instead, I'm here to tell you that we have quite an episode for you this week.
0:27.0	Now that all the holidays have been celebrated and it's almost the new year
0:31.0	and you're probably sipping hot chocolate and lounging away the final days of
0:35.6	2023, we thought we'd give you a few stories that are just a bit more contemplative,
0:41.5	a little more thoughtful than usual. So we begin in the coziest of places, the
0:47.4	archive, our series highlighting the collections of the National Library of Israel.
0:52.4	This time we're telling the incredible collections of the National Library of Israel.
0:53.0	This time we're telling the incredible story of how Franz Kafka's Hebrew notebooks
0:58.2	ended up not only in Jerusalem, but also in a, dare we say, Kafka-esque battle of ownership.
1:05.0	Then, because the war still sadly rages on in Israel,
1:09.0	we have a brief interview with Gotti Taub,
1:11.0	one of the hosts of an excellent new video podcast called Israel Update,
1:16.7	but you can now find on tablet at tablet mag.com slash Israel Update. If you're looking for an unparalleled inside perspective into the war and updates from the ground,
1:27.0	Gotti has you covered.
1:29.0	And finally, we're bringing you the latest installment of Across the USA in which we travel to the great
1:34.8	white north to get a new perspective on North American Jewish life from the very
1:39.7	fine people of Montreal. It's a story of bagels, Yiddish, and of course, Leonard Cohen.
1:46.4	So sit back, relax, and start your New Year's countdown with us. You'll hear from
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