{"id":11912,"date":"2018-11-25T21:52:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T01:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=11912"},"modified":"2018-11-25T21:54:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T01:54:36","slug":"episode-297-shachar-pinsker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-297-shachar-pinsker","title":{"rendered":"Episode 297 – Shachar Pinsker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 297:
\nShachar Pinsker<\/a><\/p>\n

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“This is the story of Jewish migration through the lens of coffeehouses.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jews have a long tradition with coffee (I can attest!). In A Rich Brew: How Caf\u00e9s Created Modern Jewish Culture<\/a>\"\" (NYU Press), Professor Shachar Pinsker<\/a> explores the intersection of modernistic Hebrew literature and coffee. We get into the story of Jewish migration through Europe and into America and Israel, why coffeehouses were the silk road of secular Jewish creativity, the golden age of feuilletons, the semitic roots of coffee culture, the way A Rich Brew<\/em> is about big cities as much as it is about coffeehouses, the importance of thirdspace to bridge the social and the private, and how Shachar narrowed the book down to 6 representative cities. We also get into how his Yeshiva education helped his secular literary studies, his night-and-day visits to Warsaw, and just how we define “modern Jewish culture”! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy A Rich Brew: How Caf\u00e9s Created Modern Jewish Culture<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“This topic and this book took me to places I never imagined I was going to go, both metaphorically and physically.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n