{"podcast":{"title":"Ancient Futures","slug":"ancient-futures-6182152","podcast_index_feed_id":6182152,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1068782.rss","website_url":"https://ancientfutures.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1068782/edbcba5c4f94b345246932e5d783e898.jpg","author":"Daniel Simpson","episode_count":87,"summary":"Timeless wisdom for modern dilemmas, combining yoga philosophy, practical insight and critical thinking.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-17T16:20:03.067668+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ancient-futures-6182152"},"episode":{"title":"Yiddishland – David Mazower","slug":"yiddishland-david-mazower","published_at":"2026-05-20T06:29:19+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ancient-futures-6182152/yiddishland-david-mazower","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ancient-futures-6182152","url":"https://ancientfutures.substack.com/p/yiddish-david-mazower","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/194600028/0134844106af6a811f4f1f796238d302.mp3","summary":"How might we be inspired by a worldwide community of Yiddish-speaking Jews, whose cultural identity was broadly internationalist? David Mazower is the author of Yiddish: A Global Culture , which accompanies an exhibit he curated at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Our conversation explores the heritage and influence of Yiddish – the everyday language of East European Jews, which became a diaspora lingua franca and the medium for bold creativity, from avant-garde art and subversive writing to radical politics that shaped socialist and anarchist movements. David’s great-grandfather, Sholem Asch, was a pioneering Yiddishist writer and another of his ancestors – his father’s father Max – was a revolutionary in tsarist Russia, becoming involved with a socialist party called the Bund, whose deeply humanistic perspective has since been marginalised. As David observes, the impact of the Bund is now the focus of a book by Molly Crabapple ( titled Here Where We Live is Our Country ). And an outing of London Bundists from the early 1900s features on the cover of David’s book . Before joining the Yiddish Book Center as its research bibliographer and editorial director, David was a senior journalist with BBC World News and deputy curator of the Jewish Museum London. He writes for a range of publications on topics from Yiddish theatre and popular culture to British Jewish history. Selected highlights from the exhibit that accompanies his book are available here . There’s also a digital guide via the Bloomberg Connects app (see here for details). -- 🔭 For a comprehensive guide to yogic wisdom, join me on The Path of Knowledge 🙏 Your support makes this podcast sustainable – please consider subscribing or make a donation ... It's greatly appreciated! This is a public…","meta_description":"How might we be inspired by a worldwide community of Yiddish-speaking Jews, whose cultural identity was broadly internationalist? David Mazower is the aut…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4183,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ancient-futures-6182152/episodes/yiddishland-david-mazower/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ancient-futures-6182152/yiddishland-david-mazower.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}