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Deeply Not Chosen with Sheera Talpaz

This Is Your Afterlife

English - April 19, 2023 06:47 - 55 minutes - 44.8 MB
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It was only a matter of time before This Is Your Afterlife included lighthearted discussions of the Holocaust. I'm pleased they come in this episode with Hebrew & Arabic literature scholar Sheera Talpaz (Oberlin College).

Content warning: Palestine, Israel, (anti-)Zionism, Auschwitz, "Never again" for whom?, middle school, motherhood, euthanasia rollercoaster.

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Follow Sheera on Twitter: @snarkademic

For a taste of her work, read her article, "Yehuda Amichai, the Unlikely National Poet," about nationalism (and the resistance to it) and translation as it relates to the titular poet.

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

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