Depictions of religious practice are relatively rare in the American televisual landscape. Nonetheless, a few select series have depicted characters’ experience of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. How many focus on the day’s religious theme, repentance (“teshuvah” in Hebrew)? What other themes would take center stage? What might that mean in the context of Jewish life in America?
Come prepared for the Days of Awe by sharing clips from, among others, “The Goldbergs,” “Northern Exposure,” “Entourage,” “Gossip Girl” and “Broad City.”
A complimentary guided tour of the Vilna and its history will run approximately 45 minutes before the start of the program.
Rachel Greenblatt has taught at Dartmouth College, Harvard and Wesleyan Universities. She holds a Ph.D. in Jewish history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a bachelor’s in history from Cornell. Greenblatt has also studied biblical and rabbinic text at the Pardes Institute and at Matan, the Sadie Rennert Women’s Institute for Torah Study, both in Jerusalem. Her scholarship focuses on the cultural and social history of Jews in central and eastern Europe.
For more, check out “From Sarnoff to Seinfeld: Televisual Jews in Historical Context,” Rachel’s class that looks at how and why Jews are portrayed on the small screen throughout the decades, which will be on select Mondays starting in October.
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