Beyond the Pale - Jewish Culture and Politics

March 07, 2010

Marilyn — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:10:09 +0000

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Mar 7 2010

Israel ratchets up campaign against dissenters, internal and external; a new report out from Breaking the Silence features troubling testimony from women soldiers; plus a look at Veit Harlan, the man behind the notorious Nazi propaganda film Jew Suss.

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Israel Pushes Back Against Dissenters

Topics: American Politics, Israeli Politics, Israel/Palestine, Occupation

Guests: Cecilie Surasky is the Deputy Director of Jewish Voice For Peace

Hosts: Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

Another in our monthly conversations with Cecilie Surasky of Jewish Voice for Peace and its blogs, Muzzlewatch and The Only Democracy? As Palestinian-led non-violent protests grow along with the worldwide Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and support for the Goldstone Report, so too has the Israeli government's push back against its critics both at home and abroad. Cecilie Surasky brings us up-to-date on the latest developments.

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Breaking the Silence

Topics: Israeli Politics, Israel/Palestine, Occupation

Guests: Dana Golan is the Executive Director of Breaking The Silence and a former lieutenant in the Israeli Defense Forces.

Hosts: Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

Since its formation in 2004, Breaking The Silence has been collecting and publishing the testimonies of soldiers about what they have done during their service in Israel's military (the IDF). These testimonies provide a counter narrative to that promoted by the Israeli government and believed by most of Israel's supporters, the notion that Israel has the most moral army in the world. We talk with Dana Golan about the reaction of the military and civil society to these testimonies and about their most recent report, Women Soldiers' Testimonies.

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Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suss

Topics: Holocaust, Film, Arts & Culture

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Felix Moeller is the writer and director of Harlan: In the Shadow of Jud Suss now screening at Manhattan's Film Forum.

Jessica Jacoby is a granddaughter of Veit Harlan. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish and were murdered by the Nazis.

Hosts: Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

Veit Harlan was one of Germany's best known filmmakers during the Third Reich. Millions in occupied Europe saw his films, the most notorious of which was Jew Suss. Based on a real historical figure, Joseph Suss Oppenheimer, an 18th century banker for the Duke of Wurttemberg, the Harlan film was viciously anti-Semitic. The documentary, Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suss , examines Harlan's life, his work and the impact his legacy has had on his deeply divided descendants. We talk with the filmmaker, Felix Moeller, and Harlan's granddaughter, Jessica Jacoby.

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February 14, 2010

Marilyn — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:17:09 +0000

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Feb 14 2010

Beyond the Pale was preempted on February 14, 21, and 28 for WBAI's winter fund drive.

If you missed contributing to the station during Beyond the Pale's fundraising special on February 7, you can still do so by clicking here.

February 7, 2010

Marilyn — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:44:18 +0000

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Feb 7 2010

A two-hour special featuring The Great Depression: A Diary. Readings from the journal that Benjamin Roth, a lawyer in Youngstown Ohio, kept throughout the Great Depression, plus a conversation with the book's co-editor, The Big Money's James Ledbetter.

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James Ledbetter, The Great Depression, Part 1

Topic: National Politics

Guests: James Ledbetter is editor of The Big Money, and author of The Great Depression: A Diary, published recently by Public Affairs. Previously, he was deputy managing editor of CNN Money and Fortune.com. He is the former business editor of Time Europe and former editor of the Industry Standard Europe.

Hosts: Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

Part 1 of our discussion with James Ledbetter about the book and the event, The Great Depression, and their resonances in today's Great Recession.

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James Ledbetter, The Great Depression, Part 2

Topic: National Politics

Guests: James Ledbetter is editor of The Big Money, and author of The Great Depression: A Diary, published recently by Public Affairs. Previously, he was deputy managing editor of CNN Money and Fortune.com. He is the former business editor of Time Europe and former editor of the Industry Standard Europe.

Hosts: Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

Part 2 of our discussion with James Ledbetter about the book and the event, The Great Depression, and their resonances in today's Great Recession.

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The Great Depression: A Diary, Readings Part 1

Topic: National Politics

Guests: Brian Pickett is a theatre artist, educator, and activist who works with Theaters Against War and the Palestine Education Project.

Hosts: Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

The first of four readings from The Great Depression: A Diary.

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The Great Depression: A Diary, Readings Part 2

Topic: National Politics

Guests: Brian Pickett is a theatre artist, educator, and activist who works with Theaters Against War and the Palestine Education Project.

Hosts: Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

This is the second of four readings from The Great Depression: A Diary.

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The Great Depression: A Diary, Readings Part 3

Topic: National Politics

Guests: Brian Pickett is a theatre artist, educator, and activist who works with Theaters Against War and the Palestine Education Project.

Hosts: Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

This is the third of four readings from The Great Depression: A Diary.

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The Great Depression: A Diary, Readings Part 4

Topic: National Politics

Guests: Brian Pickett is a theatre artist, educator, and activist who works with Theaters Against War and the Palestine Education Project.

Hosts: Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

This is the last of four readings from The Great Depression: A Diary.

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January 31, 2010

Marilyn — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:44:52 +0000

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Jan 31 2010

Conservative evangelicals in Texas are setting the standards for national K-12 textbooks; a new book on the life of investigative journalist I.F. Stone; plus Israel uses International Holocaust Remembrance Day to attack the Goldstone Report.

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Texas's Textbook Standards Don't Stay in Texas

Topics: National Politics, Christian Right

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Mariah Blake is an editor at Washington Monthly and the author, in that publication, of Revisionaries: How a Group of Texas Conservatives is Rewriting Your Kids’ Textbooks.

Hosts: Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

Texas is in the home stretch of an every ten year process of setting standards for school textbooks. Because Texas is the second largest textbook market in the U.S. and the selection process is centralized, the state's standards become effectively national standards. And this time, Texas's Christian right-dominated process won't be counter-balanced by California.

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American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F.Stone

Topics: Arts & Culture, Literature

Guests:
D. D. Guttenplan is the author of American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone. He is the London correspondent for The Nation. His previous book The Holocaust on Trial recounts the libel lawsuit filed by Holocaust revisionist, David Irving against the American scholar Deborah Lipstadt..

Hosts: Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

I.F.Stone, the man behind I.F.Stone's Weekly, was a Popular Front columnist, New Deal propagandist, fearless opponent of Mc Carthyism and the Vietnam War, scourge of official liars and an American Radical. He was also one of the best investigative reporters ever.

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Israel Exploits International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Topics: Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Anti-Semitism

Guests: Donna Nevel is an activist with Jews Say No!

Hosts: Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

The Israeli Government has chosen the week of International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th) to launch a further attack on the Goldstone Report.

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January 24, 2010

mattc — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:20:33 +0000

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Jan 24 2010

In the first human rights case to address atrocities in Somalia under the Siad Barre dictatorship, why are Jewish groups are lining up on side of the alleged perpetrator? Plus we speak with David Lehman, author of A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs.

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Samantar vs Yousef: Which Side are You On?

Topics: National Politics, Domestic Policy, Civil Rights, Jewish

Guests: Maria LaHood is a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights where she specializes in international human rights litigation, seeking to hold government officials and corporations accountable for torture, extrajudicial killings, and war crimes abroad.

Hosts: Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark and Alisa Solomon

On March 3rd, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Samantar vs. Yousef, the first human rights case to address atrocities in Somalia in the 1980s under the dictatorship of Siad Barre. The key issue facing the court is whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), which provides immunity from civil lawsuits to foreign states, also applies to individual foreign government officials, such as Samantar, who was a high official in the Siad Barre regime. We talk with CCR's Maria LaHood about the case, the jurisdictional issue facing the USSC, and why a number of Jewish organizations have filed amicus briefs on behalf of Samantar.

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A Fine Romance

Topics: Music, Arts & Culture

Guests: David Lehman is the author of A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (Nextbook Press). He is the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry and the author of numerous books of poems, most recently Yeshiva Boys: Poems.

Hosts: Alisa Solomon and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

BTP talks with author David Lehman about his recent book, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs and spins some of the great tunes by the Jewish creators of the American Songbook.

On Wednesday, January 28th, Lehman will read from A Fine Romance at I Got A Right to Sing the Blues? a concert featuring Rufus Wainwright, Bill Frisell, Van Dyke Parks and others performing songs by Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin et. al.. The sold-out concert is part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series and co-sponsored with Nextbook Press.

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