Jessica Roda, at The Blogs

Apr 8, 2020, 1:20 AM

Hasidic Female Artists Respond to the Pandemic Crisis

Coverage of the ultra-Orthodox response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been dominated by male voices. Rabbis, doctors, and male community leaders can often be heard on various platforms, while media appearances of women, such as the journalist Efrat Finkel,...

About Me

Jessica Roda is an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. She is currently serving as an assistant professor of Jewish Civilization in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is working on her second book ''Beyond the Sheitl. Hasidicness, Women’s Agency and Performances in the Digital Age", where she investigates how the artistic performances of Hasidic women act as an agent of social, economic and cultural empowerment.