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Conversations with B’nai B’rith

Conversations with B’nai B’rith

Written by: B’nai B’rith International
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On the Conversations with B’nai B’rith Podcast, immerse yourself in discussions with policy experts, diplomats, historians, authors, chefs, actors, athletes, tech experts, doctors, scientists, scholars, musicians and more.

From today’s most contentious and pressing issues—anti-Semitism, BDS, the treatment of Israel at the United Nations, affordable housing for seniors—to lighter discussions that are simply edifying and enjoyable, our podcasts enlighten and inspire.

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Episodes
  • Stories From the Lost World of 20th Century Jewish New York | With Professor Joel Dinerstein

    Stories From the Lost World of 20th Century Jewish New York | With Professor Joel Dinerstein
    Sep 17 2026
    On this episode of the Conversations with B’nai B’rith Podcast, Honorary CEO Dan Mariaschin speaks with Tulane University Professor Joel Dinerstein about his new book, “The Last of the Ellis Island Jews: A Brooklyn Memoir,” and the lost world of 20th century Jewish New York. Growing up in 1960s and ’70s Brooklyn, Dinerstein was the youngest child of immigrant parents in a working-class Jewish neighborhood. As that Brooklyn fades from living memory, his tragicomic memoir chronicles a disappearing world and presents a microcosm of social change, race, urban diversity and rock ’n’ roll. The two discuss his parents, who escaped Russia's pogroms as children, everything Brooklyn gave to American Jewish culture and how a kid from Flatbush came to write the first history of “cool.” Watch this episode on the B’nai B’rith International YouTube channel. Follow us on Instagram and Threads at @bnaibrith. Follow us on the B’nai B’rith International Facebook page. Follow us on Twitter/X at @bnaibrith.
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    39 mins
  • The Rise, Fall and Modern Revival of Yiddish Theater

    The Rise, Fall and Modern Revival of Yiddish Theater
    Aug 24 2026
    From Eastern Europe’s shtetls to Manhattan’s “Yiddish Broadway”: How did Yiddish theater come to be, and how did it capture the immigrant experience? What led to its long mid-20th century decline—and what’s fueled its modern revival? “Immigrant Songs: Yiddish Theater and the American Jewish Experience,” the first major documentary film produced by the Milken Archive of Jewish Music, tackles these questions and more. On this episode of the Conversations with B’nai B’rith Podcast, Honorary CEO Dan Mariaschin speaks with Dr. Jeff Janeczko, curator of the Milken Archive and director of “Immigrant Songs.” Together, they trace how Yiddish theater grew from melodrama into a serious art form, and how its music blended the synagogue and the shtetl with European classical and American popular song into something distinctly American and Jewish. Watch this episode on the B’nai B’rith International YouTube channel. Follow us on Instagram and Threads at @bnaibrith. Follow us on the B’nai B’rith International Facebook page. Follow us on Twitter/X at @bnaibrith.
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    29 mins
  • Reviving Arthur Szyk: The Forgotten Artist Who Fought the Nazis

    Reviving Arthur Szyk: The Forgotten Artist Who Fought the Nazis
    Aug 5 2026
    During World War II, Polish-Jewish immigrant Arthur Szyk so effectively attacked the Nazis that Hitler reportedly put a bounty on his head—yet Szyk never fired a shot. Driven by an unrelenting passion for freedom and dignity, he used his art to show Americans what was happening to the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust, to challenge segregation years before that was safe ground for an artist, and so much more. After his death in 1951, Szyk quickly faded from public memory. That we know so much about his work today is thanks to one man: Irvin Ungar. Ungar has devoted the past three decades to scholarship on Szyk, championing his legacy across the U.S., Europe and Israel. On this episode of the Conversations with B’nai B’rith Podcast, Honorary CEO Dan Mariaschin speaks with Ungar about his new book about their intertwined lives, “Reviving the Artist Who Fought Hitler: My Life with Arthur Szyk,” and Ungar’s quest to restore this singular figure in 20th-century art. Watch this episode on the B’nai B’rith International YouTube channel. Follow us on Instagram and Threads at @bnaibrith. Follow us on the B’nai B’rith International Facebook page. Follow us on Twitter/X at @bnaibrith.
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    46 mins
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