“Below the Line” provides open-access resources for those interested in learning more about the feuilleton and its importance in the formation of modern Jewish cultures. Check out the news website here: https://feuilleton.judaic.lsa.umich.edu/s/below-the-line/
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On May 2021 I was elected as the fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR). The Academy represents the oldest organization of Judaic scholars in North America. Fellows are nominated and elected by their peers and thus constitute the most distinguished and most senior scholars teaching Judaic studies at American universities. I am
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https://richbrew.org/ This project examines the confluence between cafés, the urban environment, and the creativity of multilingual Jewish diasporic communities. It uncovers a network of interconnected people and coffeehouses that were central to the modern Jewish experience in a time of migration and urbanization. Explore all cafés, cities, and people, or consider how culture traveled between
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The article was published in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/14/restaurants-may-be-reopening-will-dining-out-be-same/ Restaurants may be reopening, but will dining out be the same? Conviviality makes dining out fun, but it’s not conducive to social distancing By Shachar Pinsker Shachar Pinsker is a professor at the University of Michigan and the author of “A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern
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https://www.chronicle.com/article/Teaching-Through-a-Bout-With/248732?fbclid=IwAR1nmWVvF_TJaTz2iNWawRww9XvdFhfQUFMXlVnHowAqRFSQzjchIiml4VE On Friday, March 13, the novel coronavirus went from being a mysterious illness that had upended my teaching to something that invaded my home and health. Two days earlier, I had received a message from the president of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor telling us to cancel classes for a couple of
I’m happy to announce that my recent book A Rich Brew is the winner of the 2019 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, in the Jewish Literature and Linguistics Category, given by the Association for Jewish Studies. Please join us for a reception on Sunday, Dec. 15, at 2:15 PM, and a coffee break at 3:45 – 4:15,
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A review of “A Rich Brew” by Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker With a wonderful illustration by Rutu Modan:
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Literati is proud to welcome authors and faculty members at the University of Michigan Shachar Pinsker and Sara Blair who will be sharing and discussing their new books A Rich Brew: How Cafes Created Modern Jewish Culture and How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images. Event date: Wednesday, October 10, 2018
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A Rich Brew’ Review: A Remarkable Cultural Infusion Sholem Aleichem found a table and wrote stories while all around him customers drank coffee, read newspapers and talked politics. Norman Lebrecht reviews “A Rich Brew” by Shachar M. Pinsker. Reinhold Völkel, painting of Café Griensteidl, 1896. PHOTO: COURTESY OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS By Norman Lebrecht June 28,
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