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Podcast: Start-Up Nation for the Humanities

(June 6, 2016)

New Shtetls: Radical ultra-Orthodoxy in the 20th century.

Prof. Motti Inbari, a religions scholar at the University of North Carolina Pembroke, is the author of the new book Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women's Equality. Prof. Inbari discusses with host Gilad Halpern the genealogy of the two most radical examples of Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy: Jerusalem's Neturei Karta and Brooklyn's Satmar Hasidim.


Sources: Tel Aviv Review Podcast