All Else is Commentary is a podcast of Jewish ideas.

This week, Elliott speaks to the contemporary author, Tamar Hodes, to talk about her new book, Mixed.

You can find out more about the book here: https://www.legendpress.co.uk/mixed

As always, if you have any comments or questions, please be in touch with us at allelseis@alyth.org.uk – we would love to hear from you. You can also join the conversation on our Facebook page, and we're also on Bluesky, so please head over there to give us a follow as well.

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All Else is Commentary is a podcast of Jewish ideas.

This week, we return to our Jewish Novels series, and Elliott reads The Assistant by Bernard Malamud.

Next week: Elliott speaks to the contemporary author, Tamar Hodes, about her new novel, Mixed.

As always, if you have any comments or questions, please be in touch with us at allelseis@alyth.org.uk – we would love to hear from you. You can also join the conversation on our Facebook page, and we're also on Bluesky, so please head over there to give us a follow as well.

If there are people in your life who you think would be interested, please tell them about All Else Is Commentary.

Please visit our website: https://www.alyth.org.uk/learn-us/adult-learning/all-else-is-commentary/

We are incredibly grateful to be supported by the Shoresh Charitable Trust.

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All Else is Commentary is a podcast of Jewish ideas.

This week, we return to our Jewish Novels series, and Elliott reads Gentleman's Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson.

Next week: Elliott talks about another book set in New York, but this time in the 1950s: Bernard Malamud's The Assistant.

As always, if you have any comments or questions, please be in touch with us at allelseis@alyth.org.uk – we would love to hear from you. You can also join the conversation on our Facebook page, and we're also on Bluesky, so please head over there to give us a follow as well.

If there are people in your life who you think would be interested, please tell them about All Else Is Commentary.

Please visit our website: https://www.alyth.org.uk/learn-us/adult-learning/all-else-is-commentary/

We are incredibly grateful to be supported by the Shoresh Charitable Trust.

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All Else is Commentary is a podcast of Jewish ideas.

This week we stay on the theme of Jewish novels, but take a slight diversion into stage and screen. Last week, Elliott spoke about Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin. This week he looks at the stage show and the film inspired by the book: Cabaret.

You can watch the 1993 production here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOs82ubFyFQ

A key to the name changes:

Christopher Isherwood (book) > Cliff Bradshaw (show) > Brian Roberts (film)

Fraulein Schroeder (book) > Fraulein Schneider (show and film)

Clive (book) > Max (film)

As always, if you have any comments or questions, please be in touch with us at allelseis@alyth.org.uk – we would love to hear from you. You can also join the conversation on our Facebook page, and we're also on Bluesky, so please head over there to give us a follow as well.

If there are people in your life who you think would be interested, please tell them about All Else Is Commentary.

Please visit our website: https://www.alyth.org.uk/learn-us/adult-learning/all-else-is-commentary/

We are incredibly grateful to be supported by the Shoresh Charitable Trust.

All Else Is Commentary is brought to you by Alyth.

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All Else is Commentary is a podcast of Jewish ideas.

This week, we return to our Jewish Novels series, and Elliott reads Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood, a novel about Berlin at the beginning of the 1930s, its decadence, its complacency, and its descent into Naziism.

Next week: Elliott talks about the muscial inspired by Goodby to Berlin - Cabaret.

As always, if you have any comments or questions, please be in touch with us at allelseis@alyth.org.uk – we would love to hear from you. You can also join the conversation on our Facebook page, and we're also on Bluesky, so please head over there to give us a follow as well.

If there are people in your life who you think would be interested, please tell them about All Else Is Commentary.

Please visit our website: https://www.alyth.org.uk/learn-us/adult-learning/all-else-is-commentary/

We are incredibly grateful to be supported by the Shoresh Charitable Trust.

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All Else is Commentary is a podcast of Jewish ideas.

This week was supposed to be a week off - and then Elliott went to see the new film Marty Supreme, and just had to talk about its Jewish themes.

You can see a trailer for the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9gSuKaKcqM

As always, if you have any comments or questions, please be in touch with us at allelseis@alyth.org.uk – we would love to hear from you. You can also join the conversation on our Facebook page, and we're also on Bluesky, so please head over there to give us a follow as well.

If there are people in your life who you think would be interested, please tell them about All Else Is Commentary.

Please visit our website: https://www.alyth.org.uk/learn-us/adult-learning/all-else-is-commentary/

We are incredibly grateful to be supported by the Shoresh Charitable Trust.

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We're taking a break this week, but here's a trailer to let you know all the exciting things coming up on All Else is Commentary.

As always, if you have any comments or questions, please be in touch with us at allelseis@alyth.org.uk – we would love to hear from you. You can also join the conversation on our Facebook page, and we're also on Bluesky, so please head over there to give us a follow as well.

If there are people in your life who you think would be interested, please tell them about All Else Is Commentary.

Please visit our website: https://www.alyth.org.uk/learn-us/adult-learning/all-else-is-commentary/

We are incredibly grateful to be supported by the Shoresh Charitable Trust.

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All Else is Commentary is a podcast of Jewish ideas.

We promised an episode looking at Wicked through a Jewish lens - but we didn't have the chance to do it in time for Chanukah. But here it is today! Elliott is joined by Rabbi Hannah Kingston to talk about all the Jewish themes they identified in the musical and the film.

As always, if you have any comments or questions, please be in touch with us at allelseis@alyth.org.uk – we would love to hear from you. You can also join the conversation on our Facebook page, and we're also on Bluesky, so please head over there to give us a follow as well.

If there are people in your life who you think would be interested, please tell them about All Else Is Commentary.

Please visit our website: https://www.alyth.org.uk/learn-us/adult-learning/all-else-is-commentary/

We are incredibly grateful to be supported by the Shoresh Charitable Trust.

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