Purim w/ Eliana Morris
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Just in time for Purim we’re joined by Eliana Morris, who gives us a primer on the holiday’s story, feminist themes, and celebratory traditions. Also featuring a lot of Disney references, some of the best Purim spiels we’ve ever heard, and more than a few mentions of The Bachelor.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about inequality in relationships, misogyny, virginity as a construct, execution/hanging, anti-Semitism, religous persecution, mentions of abuse, attempted sexual assault, and mention of mass shooting.
Guest
Eliana Morris recommends you check out your local Jewish Federation! Find the one closest to you at jewishfederations.org She also recommends the books, Jewish Literacy, The Diary of a Young Girl, Rashi’s Daughters, Hey Alma, Sacred Treasure—The Cairo Genizah, and Stolen Words.
Housekeeping
- Recommendation: This week, Amanda recommends Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote. Buy a copy and see our new lists of previous recommendations, guest books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:03.8 | Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:07.9 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:08.8 | And this is episode 170, Purim with Eliana Morris. |
| 0:12.2 | This is a highly requested topic, and we are so excited to have Eliana on to talk about |
| 0:17.1 | her experiences with Purim, the incredible mythology behind it, and all the ways |
| 0:21.0 | that folks celebrate right now. Yeah, and it's just in time for Purim as well. So stoked. |
| 0:25.9 | I, seriously, I learned so much. I'm never going to look at HaMintoshin again the same way. It's |
| 0:30.1 | great. And you know who else is just in time, Amanda? Is it our newest patrons, Clara, Desiree, |
| 0:35.7 | Sinan, Alexandra, and Landon, who joined the ranks of our distinguished supporting producer-level patrons, Philip, Megan, Deborah, Molly, Skyla, Samantha, Sammy, Neil, Jessica, and Phil Fresh. |
| 0:45.9 | Yes, it is, as well as our legend-level patrons, Lacey, Brittany, Josie, Kylie, Morgan, Kylo the Husky, BMEY up Scotty, Audra, Chris, Mark, Mr. Folk, Sarah, and Jack |
| 0:56.2 | Marie. They get all of the holiday-themed pastries that they want in life. Amazing. And Julia, |
| 1:02.7 | what would you pair with some great pastries in the story of Purim? So Eliana suggested red |
| 1:08.9 | wine, and who are we to say no to that? We think you should go to your |
| 1:13.1 | local wine store, check it out, make friends with the owners, get good recommendations from them. |
| 1:18.0 | That's what we did. Our red wine from this episode was recommended to us by our friends at Dandelion |
| 1:23.1 | here in Greenpoint. And they sent us home with a bottle of Primitivo from Valentina Pasalacuaya in |
| 1:29.0 | Italy. Amazing. I also really like to read books while drinking red wine sometimes in the bath, |
| 1:34.9 | sometimes not. So this week I am recommending, as my book for everybody, Too Much, How Victorian |
| 1:40.6 | Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Verona Coat. |
| 1:49.1 | Yeah, and if you want to purchase that book as well as many of the other books that we have mentioned as recommendations on the show, you can go to spiritspodcast.com slash books, and you can |
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