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Experience Jewish Studies at Home
Keep learning via the below articles, movies, shows, podcasts, and exhibitions—all of which feature Jewish topics, themes, and characters.
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- "Stories, anxiety, our children and ourselves: Coronavirus is a teaching moment about the comfort and challenge of narrative" by Dr. Miriam Udel (TIJS faculty) (New York Daily News)
- "COVID-19 During Passover: Balancing Health and Tradition" by Dave Schechter (Atlanta Jewish Times)
- "Forced to Leave School, Jewish College Students Are Uniting in ‘Zoom University Hillel’" by Deanna Schwartz (heyalma.com)
- "All hands on deck: Emory staff exhibit ‘can-do’ spirit and enduring sense of community" by Mary Loftus (Emory Report)
- "What Judaism Teaches Us About the Fear of Death: A conversation with the Princeton scholar Moulie Vidas" by Dr. George Yancy (Emory, Department of Philosophy) (New York Times)
- "Georgia college students, faculty adjust to remote learning" by Eric Stirgus (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- "COVID-19: Some Services Require a Personal Touch" by Dave Schechter (Atlanta Jewish Times)
- The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis by David Fishman
- Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah Lipstadt (TIJS core faculty)
- On Middle Ground: A History of the Jews of Baltimore by Eric Goldstein (TIJS Director)
- My Father's Guitar and Other Imaginary Things by Joseph Skibell (TIJS affiliated faculty)
- Extracted: Unmasking Rampant Antisemitism in America's Higher Education by Perry Brickman
- Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
- Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky
- Unsettled: An Anthropology of the Jews by Melvin Konner (affiliated faculty)
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel by Michael Chabon
- A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
- Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
- The World that We Knew by Alice Hoffman
- A Curable Romantic by Joseph Skibell (TIJS affiliated faculty)
- The World to Come: A Novel by Dara Horn
- The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
- Bad Jews and Other Stories by Gerald Shapiro
- Exhibits curated by TIJS affiliated faculty Jason Francisco
- HDOT.org
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Digital Yiddish Library - Yiddish Book Center
- Denial (Amazon)
- In Search of Israeli Cuisine (Amazon Prime)
- A Thousand Kisses (free to stream)
- The Cakemaker (Netflix)
- A Tale of Love and Darkness (Netflix)
- The Golem (Netflix)
- One of Us (Netflix)
- Defiance (Netflix)
- Red Trees (Netflix)
- When Heroes Fly (Netflix)
- Jojo Rabbit (Rent on YouTube or Amazon)
- Little White Lie (Rent on YouTube or Amazon)
- The Prince of Egypt (Hulu with subscription)
- The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch (Netflix)
- Shtisel (Netflix)
- The Spy (Netflix)
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime)
- Transparent (Amazon Prime)
- Fauda (Netflix)
- The Kominsky Method (Netflix)
- Srugim (Amazon Prime)
- Unorthodox (Netflix)