Research Bites

By: buberfellows
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  • Research Bites: the podcast of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and the Social Sciences
    Copyright 2018 All rights reserved.
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  • Why Does Food Matter?
    Jan 21 2025
    Research Bites, season 6: The Public and the Sacred In this season of the MBSF podcast, 5 Buber fellows are sharing their cutting-edge research.

    This episode is about food and people; Dr. Limor Yungman examines why food matters and why it is more than just eating. Looking at recipes from long ago, she discusses how food impacts places, cultures, and economic trade. Through these recipes, we can learn not only about the history of food but also about the role that food plays in the world.

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    18 mins
  • I paid my dues
    Mar 6 2023

    In this mini-series, Dr. Anna Gutgarts, Dr. Amit Gvaryahu and Dr. Idit Ben-Or will talk about how money makes the bonds that connect us to other people – and separates us as well. It's about how money constitutes what is public and what is private.

    In the third act of the mini-series about money, Dr. Amit Gvaryahu will talk about how paying money would constitute the body politic of the ancient Jewish people and the Jerusalem temple, year after year.

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    14 mins
  • Our house
    Mar 6 2023

    This mini series is about how money makes the bonds that connect us to other people – and separates us as well. It's about how money constitutes what is public and what is private.

    This is the second episode of the series. In this episode, Dr. Anna Gutgarts will talk about how medieval individuals worked together with institutions like churches in the urban environment of Crusader Jerusalem.

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    14 mins

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