Sandee Brawarsky interviewed me on my new book “A Rich Brew: How Cafes Created Modern Jewish Culture” (NYU Press). Here is the article: http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/?p=1270305
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Mark Pendergrast writes in Moment Magazine In A Rich Brew, Shachar Pinsker masterfully documents the impact of café life on Jewish culture throughout the civilized world. He focuses on six essential cities—Odessa, Warsaw, Vienna, Berlin, New York and Tel Aviv/Jaffa—creating overlapping storylines that are not always chronological. A professor of Hebrew literature and culture at the University
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I wrote a new post on the NYU Press blog. It’s about the social space of the coffeehouse, and who is “welcome” or “belong” there. I explore here current events and debates (the Starbucks Philadelphia incident, the recent closing of independent cafés in Tel Aviv), through the lens of the Jewish experience in coffeehouses in the 19th
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Mekarem Eljamal from the University of Michigan Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies did an interview with me about “A Rich Brew,” my new book from NYU Press. We spoke about the history of the coffeehouse, Jewish migration, the Middle East, and how I came to write this book. I really enjoyed the conversation with Mekarem.
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Shachar Pinsker speaking on Jewish Coffee House Culture at Research on Religion podcast: http://www.researchonreligion.org/judaism/shachar-pinsker-on-jewish-coffee-house-culture
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First review of my new book “A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture” (NYU Press) was published in the Publishers Weekly: “Pinsker (Literary Passports), professor of Hebrew literature and culture at the University of Michigan, makes clear the vital role literary cafés played in 19th- and 20th-century Western Jewish culture in this smart
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Listen to this podcast, where I discuss with Jeremy Shere my forthcoming book, A Rich Brew: Urban Cafés and Modern Jewish Culture (New York University Press, forthcoming, 2018). It is part of the “Frankely Judaic” podcast series, which explores some of the newest research being conducted at the University of Michigan in Judaic Studies. Available on SoundCloud and ITunes
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Until fairly recently, Israeli literature was understood as essentially monolingual, created exclusively in Hebrew. In the last few years, scholars have turned their attention to the many languages in which literature was, and still is written in Israel. The symposium will bring Institute fellows and leading scholars to explore Israel literature written in Yiddish, Arabic,
This fall, the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies will host a prestigious group of scholars who will gather around the theme “Israeli Histories, Societies, and Cultures: Comparative Approaches.” I have the privilege of leading the team as a Head Fellow. The 2016–17 Frankel fellows and their fields of research are: Naomi Brenner, Ohio State University, “Best-Sellers
