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'The most religiously intense street in the UK' – Sounds Jewish podcast

2016-05-1033:521

In this episode broadcaster and oral historian Alan Dein eavesdrops on a day in the life of Oldhill Street in Hackney, a remarkable corner of London

Laughter in Jewish culture - Sounds Jewish podcast

2014-12-0131:071

Alan Dein explores Jewish comedy through the stories of four Jews with a knack for making people laugh

Sounds Jewish podcast: Jewish hair special

2014-07-0834:28

Alan Dein explores the world of shampoo, shaving and the sheitl, finding remarkable stories with Jewish hair at their roots.

Sounds Jewish podcast: encounters

2014-03-0740:26

From steam baths to barmitzvah memories, Alan Dein digs out four remarkable stories on the theme of encounters

Sounds Jewish podcast: Chanukah – keeping the flame burning

2013-12-0342:02

Four stories of Jewish life on the age-old Chanukah theme of tenacity and persistence against the odds: from the Austrian-Jewish refugee who maintained a lifelong love of two sets of parents to the music enthusiast reviving the Latin flame that once burned in Jewish hearts

Sounds Jewish podcast: in the beginning

2013-10-0436:24

Four stories of Jewish life on the theme of beginnings, from the Hasidic woman breaking away to start a new life to the discovery of a dark family secret, from the start of a teenage night out at Edgware station to the tasting of the forbidden … a pork wonton

Sounds Jewish podcast: the Jewish revival in Poland

2013-06-0542:24

Writer Denise Grollmus goes on a personal journey of Jewish discovery in Poland, the country where 3 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during the second world war

Sounds Jewish podcast: Jewish Book Week special

2013-03-0140:05

A B Yehoshua, Judith Butler and Sam Leith join Hephzibah Anderson at Kings Place to mark Jewish Book Week 2013

Sounds Jewish podcast: Israeli elections aftermath and the Gerald Scarfe cartoon

2013-02-1135:08

Naomi Alderman, Yossi Mekelberg and Alexander Bodin Saphir join Jason Solomons to discuss the Israeli elections, the Oscars and the Gerald Scarfe cartoon in the Sunday Times

Sounds Jewish podcast: why it's been a good year

2012-12-2123:18

Robert Popper, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Jacob Steinberg join Jason Solomons to discuss why Jewish culture was on-trend this year … and why Jews love Christmas lunch

Sounds Jewish podcast: the Israel-Gaza conflict

2012-11-2930:08

Ian Black and Mark Gardner join Jason Solomons to discuss the eight days of conflict between Israel and Hamas in and around Gaza

A new generation of Auschwitz tattoos – Sounds Jewish podcast

2012-10-1632:38

Naomi Gryn joins Jason Solomons to discuss the descendants of Holocaust survivors who are tattooing their grandparents' Auschwitz numbers on their own arms. Plus Mark Gettleson on the importance of the Jewish vote in the US presidential election

Sounds Jewish podcast: theatre director Julia Pascal

2012-07-0629:34

Joining Jason Solomons this month is theatre director and playwright Julia Pascal

Rafael Behr on ideas of Jewish identity in the UK

2012-06-0130:381

Rafael Behr, the political editor of the New Statesman, talks to Jason about the magazine's special edition on British Jewish identity; Laura Marks of the Board of Deputies of British Jews addresses sexism in the Jewish community and Francesca Segal discusses her debut novel, The Innocents, set in north-west London

Sounds Jewish podcast: memories of London's East End

2012-04-0329:14

From Petticoat Lane legend Mike Stern to 'bagel poet' Ben Mandelson, we pay tribute to the Jewish East End of London – recalling a lost community whose influence lives on, through its food, its personalities and its spirit

Sounds Jewish podcast: Jewish Book Week special

2012-02-2434:58

Joining Jonathan Freedland in a Jewish Book Week special are guests Shalom Auslander, Etgar Keret, Meg Rosoff and David Schneider

Sounds Jewish podcast: February 2012

2012-02-0330:26

A discussion about the growing row dividing Britain's Jews over how to relate to British Muslims; an exclusive interview with former war photographer Judah Passow, who's been documenting the faces of Anglo-Jewry; and an interview with Brooklyn-based indie band Girls in Trouble, who combine folk, underground rock – and stories from the Old Testament

Sounds Jewish podcast: Hanukah and end of year review 2011

2011-12-2043:26

In this special end-of-year edition of the show, we'll be reviewing the Jewish highs and lows of 2011 and celebrating Hanukah with sugar-laced, deep-fried doughnuts and live music in the studio from Erran Baron Cohen and Jules Brookes. With guests Jonathan Freedland and Rachel Lasserson

Sounds Jewish podcast: Israel's tent protesters

2011-11-2536:22

This month we look at the burning issues that fired up the tent protesters in Israel; allegations of misogyny amongst the ultra-orthodox; and political cartoons that have provoked a deluge of hate mail

Sounds Jewish podcast: Jewish new year

2011-09-2726:47

We take a journey of sound, music and speech to mark the 10 Days of Penitence, from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur

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