A special visit to Williamsburg with writer and former resident Phillip Lopate
Williamsburg, Brooklyn has a rich immigrant history. Before the South Side became the Hasidic enclave that it is today, it was a much more eclectic immigrant neighborhood. Among its former residents i...
18 Mai 20221h 8min
Izzy Posen and Frieda Vizel live zoom conversation on Post-Haredi life, identity and relations
I had the great pleasure of doing a live zoom conversation with fellow former-Hasid [OTD] and professional thinker Izzy Posen. Izzy is a prolific personality on Twitter, where he is eager to encourage...
2 Apr 20221h 16min
Interview with Harry Weiss, former Williamsburg resident
I'm delighted to be posting another video conversation with a Jewish Williamsburg "old-timer", this one with Harry/Chaim Weiss.Harry Weiss was born September 24, 1949, in the Williamsburg section of B...
2 Feb 20221h 11min
Shpanier Arbet / Jewish garment art with Elena Solomon
In this video post, I explore a very interesting part of Hasidic clothing: the silver decorative strip found on the men's prayer shawls. I talk to Elena Solomon, who, together with Lilly Homer is writ...
13 Jan 202240min
In Conversation with Nathaniel Deutsch, Co-author of 'A Fortress in Brooklyn'
I had the pleasure to talk to Nathaniel Deutsch about his new book on Hasidic Williamsburg.Nathaniel Deutsch is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he holds the B...
28 Des 20211h 22min
Interview with Nelly Grussgott on post-war Williamsburg, Brooklyn
This video is part of a research project to document the way Hasidim came to America after the war and turned Williamsburg into an insular religious enclave.Nelly Grussgott was born in 1930 in Berlin....
23 Sep 202157min
