Yoav Sorek, David Weinberg, and Jonathan Silver on What Jewish Magazines Are For
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4.6 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Some of today's most important ideas were first born in little magazines—magazines, that is to say, like Mosaic. How does that happen? And what is the role of a magazine editor, and does that role differ if the magazine in question is Jewish?
On this week's podcast, we bring you the recording of a live discussion convened earlier this week between Mosaic editor Jonathan Silver and Yoav Sorek, the editor of Hashiloach, a quarterly journal in Israel. Moderated by the writer David Weinberg, the two discuss the state of Jewish ideas, the biggest issues facing the Jewish people in their minds, and the differences between publishing for Jews who are a minority—as Mosaic does—and publishing for Jews who are a majority in their own state, as Hashiloach does.
Musical selections in this podcast are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble.
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| 0:00.0 | Usually on the Tikva podcast, I sit down with a writer or religious thinker or political analyst to discuss their work. |
| 0:15.0 | This week, something a little different. I was recently in Jerusalem, and representing the magazine that I edit Mosaic joined together with |
| 0:22.0 | Joav Sorek, the editor of Israel's most interesting quarterly journal, Ashilohach. The two of us got |
| 0:27.8 | together to discuss magazines of ideas that, in some way or other, focused on Jewish questions. |
| 0:33.9 | There's an enormous difference, of course, between a Hebrew language magazine |
| 0:38.3 | that speaks to the whole nation, in this case the citizens of the Jewish state, as Hashilohaq |
| 0:44.3 | does, and Mosaic, an English language magazine that focuses on Jewish questions and Jewish themes |
| 0:50.3 | in a political context in which Jews are a minority. Sovereignty actually plays a big |
| 0:55.8 | role in the role of an editor. We speak about these sorts of questions and others too. What animates |
| 1:01.6 | the magazines that we edit, the way we think about writers and essays, and much else. This live event was |
| 1:07.1 | moderated by the longtime Jerusalem Post contributor David Weinberg. And although it's a departure |
| 1:12.3 | from the usual format of the podcast, I thought it was an interesting discussion, and it helps |
| 1:17.5 | to articulate to ourselves and our readers what we're trying to do. On the podcast this week, |
| 1:22.5 | a discussion about what Jewish publications are for. Welcome to the Tikva podcast. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm your host, and this week also one of the guests, Jonathan Silver. |
| 1:38.9 | If you enjoy this conversation, you can subscribe to the Tikva podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. |
| 1:43.6 | I hope you leave us a five-star review to help us grow this community of ideas. |
| 1:45.8 | I welcome your feedback on this or any of our other podcast episodes at ptikfund.org. And of course, if you want to learn more about our |
| 1:52.3 | work at Tikva, you can visit our website, tikfa fund.org, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. |
| 1:57.9 | Here now is my conversation recorded live in Jerusalem with the |
| 2:02.0 | Hashilohaq editor Yoav Sarek, moderated by David Weinberg. Welcome to this Tikva fund |
| 2:08.3 | discussion about the advancement of Jewish Zionist and conservative ideas in the American |
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