Episode 0193 "A Rich Brew: How Cafes Created Modern Jewish Culture"

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast

In a conversation with Shachar M. Pinsker we learn about the place of coffeehouses in the creation of modern Jewish culture from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Shachar’s newly published book, "A Rich Brew: How Cafes Created Modern Jewish Culture," tells the story of the role of the coffeehouse as central to the modern Jewish experience in a time of migration and urbanization, from Odessa, Warsaw, Vienna, and Berlin to New York City and Tel Aviv, and why Jews became their most devoted habitues. Episode 0193 August 2, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA