In this episode broadcaster and oral historian Alan Dein eavesdrops on a day in the life of Oldhill Street in Hackney, a remarkable corner of London

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'The most religiously intense street in the UK' – Sounds Jewish podcast

Alan Dein explores Jewish comedy through the stories of four Jews with a knack for making people laugh

Laughter in Jewish culture - Sounds Jewish podcast

Alan Dein explores the world of shampoo, shaving and the sheitl, finding remarkable stories with Jewish hair at their roots.

Sounds Jewish podcast: Jewish hair special

From steam baths to barmitzvah memories, Alan Dein digs out four remarkable stories on the theme of encounters

Sounds Jewish podcast: encounters

Four stories of Jewish life on the age-old Chanukah theme of tenacity and persistence against the odds: from the Austrian-Jewish refugee who maintained a lifelong love of two sets of parents to the music enthusiast reviving the Latin flame that once burned in Jewish hearts

Sounds Jewish podcast: Chanukah – keeping the flame burning

Four stories of Jewish life on the theme of beginnings, from the Hasidic woman breaking away to start a new life to the discovery of a dark family secret, from the start of a teenage night out at Edgware station to the tasting of the forbidden … a pork wonton

Sounds Jewish podcast: in the beginning

Writer Denise Grollmus goes on a personal journey of Jewish discovery in Poland, the country where 3 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during the second world war

Sounds Jewish podcast: the Jewish revival in Poland

A B Yehoshua, Judith Butler and Sam Leith join Hephzibah Anderson at Kings Place to mark Jewish Book Week 2013

Sounds Jewish podcast: Jewish Book Week special

Naomi Alderman, Yossi Mekelberg and Alexander Bodin Saphir join Jason Solomons to discuss the Israeli elections, the Oscars and the Gerald Scarfe cartoon in the Sunday Times

Sounds Jewish podcast: Israeli elections aftermath and the Gerald Scarfe cartoon

Robert Popper, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Jacob Steinberg join Jason Solomons to discuss why Jewish culture was on-trend this year … and why Jews love Christmas lunch

Sounds Jewish podcast: why it's been a good year

Ian Black and Mark Gardner join Jason Solomons to discuss the eight days of conflict between Israel and Hamas in and around Gaza

Sounds Jewish podcast: the Israel-Gaza conflict

Naomi Gryn joins Jason Solomons to discuss the descendants of Holocaust survivors who are tattooing their grandparents' Auschwitz numbers on their own arms. Plus Mark Gettleson on the importance of the Jewish vote in the US presidential election

A new generation of Auschwitz tattoos – Sounds Jewish podcast

Joining Jason Solomons this month is theatre director and playwright Julia Pascal

Sounds Jewish podcast: theatre director Julia Pascal

Rafael Behr, the political editor of the New Statesman, talks to Jason about the magazine's special edition on British Jewish identity; Laura Marks of the Board of Deputies of British Jews addresses sexism in the Jewish community and Francesca Segal discusses her debut novel, The Innocents, set in north-west London

Rafael Behr on ideas of Jewish identity in the UK

From Petticoat Lane legend Mike Stern to 'bagel poet' Ben Mandelson, we pay tribute to the Jewish East End of London – recalling a lost community whose influence lives on, through its food, its personalities and its spirit

Sounds Jewish podcast: memories of London's East End

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