Hidah: Jewish Counter-Colonial Thoughts

Hidah 4 / Teshuvah & Returning to Repair

What does teshuvah - return, repentance, repair, redemption - look and feel like in our times? What is the relationship between teshuvah and decoloniality? An intimate and informal conversation between Yonathan, Alexia, and Daniel in preparation for the Yomim Noraim (Days of Awe). Hosts: ⁠Yonathan Busquila Listik⁠ [https://www.internationalstudiesblog.nl/articles/resistance-disobedience-and-barbarity-connecting-walter-benjamin-to-decolonial-theory], Alexia Levy-Chekroun & ⁠Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik⁠ [https://danielvoskoboynik.com/] Producers: Maia Steinberg & Elia Ayoub (⁠⁠The Fire these Times⁠⁠ [https://thefirethesetimes.com/], ⁠⁠Hauntologies⁠⁠ [https://www.hauntologies.net/]) Music: ⁠⁠Isaac Loeb and Slomo Souiri⁠⁠ [https://gharamophone.com/2020/07/21/isaac-loeb-and-slomo-souiri-belouajeb-nefrah-olympia-c-1950s/] This podcast is part of the From the Periphery media collective. To support: ⁠⁠patreon.com/fromtheperiphery⁠ [https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery]

Hidah 3 / Mothering, Contested Collectives, and the Imagination with Gil Anidjar

In this episode, we talk with Gil Anidjar about mothering, the future, the Messiah, defining what is Jewish, and the questions that keep us up at night. Gil Anidjar is Professor in the Departments of Religion and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University. He is the author of books such as The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (2003); Semites: Race, Religion, Literature (2008); and Blood: A Critique of Christianity (2014). His most recent book, published in 2024, is On the Sovereignty of Mothers: the Political as Maternal. This episode was recorded early in 2024. Hosts: ⁠Yonathan Busquila Listik⁠ [https://www.internationalstudiesblog.nl/articles/resistance-disobedience-and-barbarity-connecting-walter-benjamin-to-decolonial-theory], Alexia Levy-Chekroun & ⁠Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik⁠ [https://danielvoskoboynik.com/] Producers: Hannah Dvora & Elia Ayoub (⁠⁠The Fire these Times⁠⁠ [https://thefirethesetimes.com/], ⁠⁠Hauntologies⁠⁠ [https://www.hauntologies.net/]) Music: ⁠⁠Isaac Loeb and Slomo Souiri⁠⁠ [https://gharamophone.com/2020/07/21/isaac-loeb-and-slomo-souiri-belouajeb-nefrah-olympia-c-1950s/] This podcast is part of the From the Periphery media collective. To support: ⁠⁠patreon.com/fromtheperiphery⁠⁠ [https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery]

Hidah 2 / Diaspora, Doikayt and Judaïté with Daniel Boyarin

In our first interview episode, we speak with Daniel Boyarin about the systematic life-extinguishing assault on Gaza, the moral responsibilities of Jews, and the future of Judaïté. Daniel Boyarin is one of the most influential scholars of the Talmud and rabbinic culture. He is the author of books such as Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion and Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man , and is the co-editor of Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. His most recent book is The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto  [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251289/the-no-state-solution/] This interview was recorded in December 2023. Hosts: Yonathan Busquila Listik [https://www.internationalstudiesblog.nl/articles/resistance-disobedience-and-barbarity-connecting-walter-benjamin-to-decolonial-theory], Alexia Levy-Chekroun & Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik [https://danielvoskoboynik.com/] Producers: Hannah Dvora & Elia Ayoub (⁠The Fire these Times⁠ [https://thefirethesetimes.com/], ⁠Hauntologies⁠ [https://www.hauntologies.net/]) Music: ⁠Isaac Loeb and Slomo Souiri⁠ [https://gharamophone.com/2020/07/21/isaac-loeb-and-slomo-souiri-belouajeb-nefrah-olympia-c-1950s/] This podcast is part of the From the Periphery media collective. To support: ⁠patreon.com/fromtheperiphery⁠ [https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery]

Hidah: Introductions

In the first episode of Hidah, we meet the three hosts Alexia Levy-Chekroun, Yonathan Busquila Listik and Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik [https://danielvoskoboynik.com/], and introduce the vision for this podcast. Hidah is a new podcast aiming uplift counter-colonial conversations from within Jewish communities across the global diaspora. Interviewing activists, scholars, rabbis, trouble-makers, artists, and all kinds of people challenging colonial structures, and inspiring us towards worlds of liberation. Producers: Hannah Dvora & Elia Ayoub (The Fire these Times [https://thefirethesetimes.com/], Hauntologies [https://www.hauntologies.net/]) Music: Isaac Loeb and Slomo Souiri [https://gharamophone.com/2020/07/21/isaac-loeb-and-slomo-souiri-belouajeb-nefrah-olympia-c-1950s/] This podcast is part of the From the Periphery media collective. To support: patreon.com/fromtheperiphery [https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery]