Contemporary Anti-Semitism in Western Europe, with Santiago López

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  About what percentage of all hate crimes committed in France are against Jews?

Santiago López Rodríguez received a degree in Spanish History and Historical Heritage from the University … Leer más

Madrid Municipality Grants Use of Building for New Jewish Museum

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – At the beginning of February the Mayor of Madrid announced that the municipality has signed an agreement with the Hispanic Jewish Foundation to grant it the use of a building in the city … Leer más

The V Humus Film Fest, with Sara “Neighborhood Planter” Casado

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  What is “running and huerting”?

La Casa Encendida is a social and cultural center located in the Lavapiés area of Madrid. It is a dynamic space open to … Leer más

Yad Vashem Spain: Testimony, Memory, Education, with Samuel Bengio

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  About how many Spanish educators have taken the course in how to teach the Holocaust which is given at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem?

On January 27, Europe commemorates … Leer más

Photographer: Documenting the Lodz Ghetto, with Dariusz Jablonski

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  Who was Chaim Rumkowski?

In 1987, several hundred color slides documenting scenes from the Lodz Ghetto during World War II were discovered in a second-hand bookstore in Vienna, Austria. These slides were the work … Leer más

Jews in the Arab World, with Lyn Julius

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  What percentage of the population of Baghdad was Jewish before 1940?

Lyn Julius is the British-born daughter of Iraqi-Jewish refugees. She graduated in International Relations from the University … Leer más

Counting Europe’s Jews, with Dr. Daniel Staetsky

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  King David conducted one of the first censuses in history.  Why did he do it?

The Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) is a London-based research institute and think tank. It … Leer más

Genocides in History, with Prof. Hernando Valencia Villa

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What are the four kinds of groups included in the 1948 Genocide Convention’s definition of genocide?

Dr. Hernando Valencia Villa has a PhD in Law from Yale University. … Leer más

Two Stories for Chanukah, by Sam Liptzin and Chaver Paver

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – HAPPY CHANUKAH FROM ENGLISH CORNER TO ALL OUR LISTENERS !!!

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Angels Stole the Latkes, by Sam Liptzin

Sam Liptzin was born in a small village called Lipsk, in Poland, in 1893. By … Leer más

Shield of Honor: Teaching Values through Football. Young Israelis Visit Seville

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Why did the Israeli Hope Shield of Honor program choose 14 to16-year-olds to participate in the visit to Seville?

Israeli Hope is the President of Israel’s flagship program … Leer más

René Mayer (II): Chess and Humor

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What is the motto of the World Chess Federation?

René Mayer was born in France in 1947.  He is best known for his lifelong dedication to chess–he has … Leer más

René Mayer (I): A Post-War European Jew

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  Where did the Jewish community in Madrid hold services before the synagogue was built in 1968?

René Mayer was born in France in 1947.  He is best known … Leer más

Eshkol Nevo, Israeli Writer

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  How is Three Floors Up different from Eshkol Nevo’s previous novels?

Eshkol Nevo was born in Jerusalem in 1971, and spent part of his childhood in the United … Leer más

Hasidic Music in Weimar, with Rabbi Sruli Dresdner

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  Why do Hasidim dance only to singing, without instruments?

Rabbi Sruli Dresdner grew up in a Hasidic family in New York and has been performing and teaching Klezmer … Leer más

Alan Bern: Yiddish Culture in Weimar, Germany

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What does the four-fold mission of Yiddish Summer Weimar consist of?

Alan Bern is an American composer, pianist, accordionist, educator and cultural activist, based in Berlin. He is internationally … Leer más

The Big Sukkah, by Abraham Reisen

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – Sukkot (pronounced Sukkos by Ashkenazi Jews), is a biblical Jewish holiday beginning on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei, between late September and late October. It is one of the three biblically mandated … Leer más

A Yom Kippur Scandal, by Sholem Aleichem

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – Sholem Aleichem is probably the best-known and most well-loved Yiddish writer.  He was born Sholem Rabinovich in Russia in 1859, and died in New York in 1916.  He did a lot to promote … Leer más

“The Dark Young Man” by Jacob Dinezon, with Scott Hilton Davis

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  What is unusual about the titles of Jacob Dinezon’s first three novels?

Jacob Dinezon was born near Kovno, Lithuania, in 1851. At the age of 15, after his … Leer más

Khayele (Helen) Beer, Yiddishist

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  What is unique about Itzik Manger’s ballads?

Helen (Khayele) Beer is Lecturer in Yiddish in the department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London. She was … Leer más

León Felipe: A Spanish Poet with a “Commitment to the Jewish People”, with Jesús Jambrina

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  What poem did León Felipe dedicate “To all the Jews in the world, my friends, my brethren”?

León Felipe was a Spanish poet who was born in Zamora … Leer más