{"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":"Educating for an Uncertain Future in Interwar Poland","slug":"educating-for-an-uncertain-future-in-interwar-poland","published_at":"2026-08-29T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/educating-for-an-uncertain-future-in-interwar-poland","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/6482af19-2da6-4eeb-adb7-fbc21f144581/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=6e52f8b7-498b-46e9-a3df-a405f10ed6e5&awEpisodeId=6482af19-2da6-4eeb-adb7-fbc21f144581&feed=0y1v4qsq","summary":"In the two decades between the First and Second World Wars, Jewish parents in Poland faced a proliferation of choices when it came to educating their children. Each choice offered a vision of what future Polish Jews desired, what they expected, and the gap between the two. State schools taught in Polish (sometimes with a schedule to accommodate traditional religious observance), secularist Yiddish schools with strong ties to Jewish socialism and the labor movement, Hebraist schools promoting political and cultural Zionism, and religious schools that retained--or innovated upon--traditionalist educational models reflected different opinions for what Jewish children in interwar Poland would need in the present to secure their future. In this lecture, Elena Hoffenberg draws upon materials held by YIVO to explore how projections about the future in terms of work, culture, and politics guided parents, educational activists, and young people themselves. Choices as reflections of competing political and religious commitments, as well as material constraints, to better understand what Polish Jews expected for their individual and communal futures. This lecture originally took place on March 2, 2026. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies","meta_description":"In the two decades between the First and Second World Wars, Jewish parents in Poland faced a proliferation of choices when it came to educating their chil…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3412,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/episodes/educating-for-an-uncertain-future-in-interwar-poland/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/educating-for-an-uncertain-future-in-interwar-poland.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}