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Arc: The Podcast

Every other week, Arc Magazine's editor-in-chief, Mark Oppenheimer, is joined by guests to talk religion, politics, et cetera.
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    Episode 26: Damon Linker

    Mark sits down with Damon Linker to talk about the rise of the Theocons, the long shadow of the War on Terror, and what it feels like to be among the last liberals in America

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    Episode 25: Jay Michaelson

    Mark sits down with Jay Michaelson to talk about the 17th century (Jewish) origins of Candace Owens’s antisemitism

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Rescued: The Lost Treasures of Klezmer

For decades, klezmer musicians have kept traditional Jewish music alive despite war, genocide, and erasure. They’ve done so by playing a small handful of surviving songs again and again. Many more songs—a trove of tunes with the potential to redefine the genre—have sat just out of reach, in a former Soviet archive. This music was unseen, unheard, unknown. But now, newly rescued, it’s transforming the klezmer world, the people who work in it, and our picture of 20th-century Jewish life in a destabilized Europe. Rescued: The Lost Treasures of Klezmer tells the story of that music.
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    3. Dancing in a Jewish Way

    Klezmer activist Christina Crowder finds something personal in the music she helped return to the klezmer community. Plus, a klezmer concert in a church. From Arc magazine and Washington University in St. Louis.

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    2. Klezmerland

    A fateful Tokyo subway ride delivers hundreds of tunes to klezmerland, transforming the genre—and kugel etiquette. From Arc magazine and Washington University in St. Louis.