{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Jewish Studies","slug":"new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327","podcast_index_feed_id":313327,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/0y1v4qsq","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/religion-faith/jewish-studies/","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/6e52f8b7-498b-46e9-a3df-a405f10ed6e5/57ca3477-a6ff-41a1-93a4-8363460c7ca5/3000x3000/60cca3664f8db6504a688566b559fc80.png?aid=rss_feed","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":600,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T16:17:40.869396+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327"},"episode":{"title":"A Very Jewish Christmas: When Jesus Spoke Yiddish","slug":"a-very-jewish-christmas-when-jesus-spoke-yiddish","published_at":"2026-08-18T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/a-very-jewish-christmas-when-jesus-spoke-yiddish","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327","url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/religion-faith/jewish-studies/","audio_url":"https://injector.simplecastaudio.com/6e52f8b7-498b-46e9-a3df-a405f10ed6e5/episodes/9665c1b6-053a-4073-98f7-5ccfa990c140/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=6e52f8b7-498b-46e9-a3df-a405f10ed6e5&awEpisodeId=9665c1b6-053a-4073-98f7-5ccfa990c140&feed=0y1v4qsq","summary":"It is a curious fact that among the first Yiddish books ever printed was a translation of the New Testament, which appeared in 1540, only 18 years after Luther's famous translation (which it shamelessly cribbed). In the centuries that followed, another dozen or so missionary translations directed to Yiddish-speaking Jews followed. This talk will explore a dramatic change in the character of these translations in the twentieth century, when new conceptions of the Yiddish language, new cosmopolitanism in Yiddish culture, and new understandings of Jewish-Christian conversion converged to create new translation styles that aimed to express Jesus's Jewishness through a rich and haymish Yiddish. Join YIVO for a very Jewish Christmas celebration featuring a talk on Yiddish translations of the New Testament by Naomi Seidman. This lecture originally took place on December 21, 2023. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies","meta_description":"It is a curious fact that among the first Yiddish books ever printed was a translation of the New Testament, which appeared in 1540, only 18 years after L…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4254,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/episodes/a-very-jewish-christmas-when-jesus-spoke-yiddish/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/a-very-jewish-christmas-when-jesus-spoke-yiddish.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}