Announcing the Rischa D'Araisa Prizes For Literature and More!

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Listening to the Yeshiva of Newark podcast. I'm your host and curator, Rabbi Ephraim Kievalevich, and I hope you enjoy this episode. If it's my spice shop in Skokie, this must be the ice I'm here with coming over half an hour and Mayor Schiller. Last week there was the announcement of the Pulitzer Prize winners. Right before we started recording with Mayor and I, we were perusing the winners. There was a certain common theme and clearly you would be happy with this work because a lot of it was exposing conflict of interests of the Trump administration and the methods and the strategies and the cruelties of immigration enforcement and Pulitzer has been around for over 100 years and of course they were it was started through the auspices of a Columbia University. And Joseph Pulitzer who I was surprised to find out with a little research was actually a Hungarian Jew who immigrated to America, fought I guess valiantly in the Civil War and was famous I knew through his uh campaigns against William Randolph Hearst uh the competing newspapers, but it seems like the if you wanted to leave money to promote what he thought were important works, important works of literature, journalism, reporting. And it got me thinking that about in general the the 20th century uh Rabbi was a period that I guess with so much more leisure time um and the proliferation of books and newspapers uh prizes started becoming uh vogue especially you know as the century went on and in the by the time you know the mid-1950s and the modern state of Israel there were already four different, as far as I could find out, and maybe even more, four major prizes that were awarded to

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1. 0:03Listening to the Yeshiva of Newark podcast. I'm your host and curator, Rabbi Ephraim Kievalevich, and…
2. 2:05works of primarily literature and Hochma. Also, of course, it expanded. There's the Israel Prize, the…
3. 4:41of a certain type of genre. So it could be you know we we we would…
4. 7:14Prize and the Bialik Prize came out, you're talking about major works like Yitzchak Herzog, Kaufman,…
5. 10:15been thrown into the Avodah that he was. Rav Lieberman, of course, probably the most impressive…
6. 12:48that need to be waited through and you know, you could get lost in it and…
7. 14:50specialty type of period of Halacha and gave you everything there is to know and we…
8. 17:24that he wrote when he was young, you know, and but but I think he I…
9. 19:55way that they can get people to read again and for children to read with their…
10. 22:29Yissocher we can we can laugh we can talk about prizes from Heights of Morning. If…

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