What Comes Next?: Jews & The Afterlife
Series: The End As Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death
From: Rebecca Sheir
Length: 00:18:04
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Little material exists on "the world to come," or Olam Ha-Ba, as it's known in Hebrew, in the Torah.
In this sound-rich third part of "The End as Beginning: An MFA Thesis on the Jewish View of Death" (completed for the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program in May 2006), personal essay meets radio documentary meets audio experimentation, as we explore how various Jewish traditions examine, explain, and argue about life and life everlasting...
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Piece Description
Little material exists on "the world to come," or Olam Ha-Ba, as it's known in Hebrew, in the Torah. In this sound-rich third part of "The End as Beginning: An MFA Thesis on the Jewish View of Death" (completed for the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program in May 2006), personal essay meets radio documentary meets audio experimentation, as we explore how various Jewish traditions examine, explain, and argue about life and life everlasting...
Broadcast History
This was Part Three of the MFA thesis, "The End As Beginning."
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