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Topic: Haredim and technology

Working Session on Haredim and Technology

Friday April 13, 9:30 am
Center for Religion and Media
726 Broadway, 5th fl
New York University

Nathaniel Deutsch will lead off with an exploration of the apparent tension between a Hasidic way of life that rejects the idea of progressive change, on the one hand, while integrating precisely those technological innovations that most powerfully embody the current era of globalization, digitalization, and connectivity. Eddy Portnoy will follow with technologies that Hasidim use to make the Internet safe. Miriam Isaacs will comment on contemporary Hasidic transmission of oral culture and technology in Yiddish. Lauren Shweder Biel will present the rough cut of her short documentary film 888-GO-KOSHER. Samuel Heilman will respond.

Readings

Nathaniel Deutsch, "The Forbidden Fork, the Cell Phone Holocaust, and Other Hasidic Encounters with Technology"
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/center/religionandmedia/members/
readings/Cellphone_Holocaust.doc

Edward Portnoy, Haredim and the Internet
http://modiya.nyu.edu/handle/1964/265

Miriam Isaacs, Contemporary Hasidic Transmission of Oral Culture and Technology in Yiddish
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/center/religionandmedia/members/
readings/rutgers_draft_isaacs.doc

Links

888-GO-KOSHER
http://www.gokosher.org/contact_us.html

Making the Internet safe for Haredim
http://www.ayinroah.com/
http://www.yeshivanet.com/
http://www.thejnet.com/

Haredi and Hasidic sites
http://www.geocities.com/itzik18/chassidus.html
http://www.moshiach.net/blind/hebrew/sg-index.htm
http://www.yeshiva.org.il/ask/eng/default.asp?category=7&page=2
http://www.halacha.com/about.html
http://www.hamaspik.org/
http://www.hashkafah.com/
http://www.chatzarhakodesh.com/

Haredi Forums
http://bh.hevre.co.il/forum/listforums.asp
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/forum.asp?forum_id=9672
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/forum.asp?forum_id=13248

Hasidic communities
http://chabad.org.il/
http://satmer.blogspot.com/
http://dhengah.org/signup.htm
http://kaalov.com/
http://www.nikolsburg.org/
http://www.rebbe.org/index.html
http://geocities.com/bialarebbe/

Rebels
http://hasidicrebel.blogspot.com/
http://alsoachussid.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_alsoachussid_archive.html
http://theshaigetz.blogspot.com/

Participants

Nathaniel Deutsch is Associate Professor of Religion at Swarthmore College. This year he is a Guggenheim fellow and is also the Workmen's Circle/Dr. Emmanuel Patt Visiting Professor of Eastern European Jewish Studies at YIVO and a visiting professor at Stanford. His books include The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World, which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award; Guardians of the Gate: Angelic Vice Regency in Late Antiquity; The Gnostic Imagination: Gnosticism, Mandaeism, and Merkabah Mysticism; and Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism, which he co-edited.

Miriam Isaacs is Visiting Associate Professor in Yiddish language and culture at the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Germanic Studies and the University of Maryland. Her publications include: "Pious Voices: Languages Among Ultra-orthodox Jews," International Journal of the Sociology of Languages (1999), a special issue that she coedited and in which her article "Haredi, Haymish and Frim: Yiddish Vitality and Language Choice in a Multilingual Community" appeared. She is currently working on a book about the range of Yiddish culture and its uses as a tool of empowerment in the Displaced Person's camps in Germany, Austria and Italy in the immediate aftermath of World War II.