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The Frieda Vizel Podcast

Frieda Vizel

Welcome to in-depth conversations on Hasidism, Judaism, NYC, culture, education, religion and more!

This podcast is hosted by popular Youtuber Frieda Vizel, who has been studying the Hasidic community for more than ten years.

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S5 · E44
Sunday · 50 min
Escape from Hungary to Satmar Brooklyn | Erika Szabo
video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/ZMwMkiG0YCY In part 1 of 2 of Erika Szabo's life story, we learn what life was like for the post-holocaust generation. Erika was born in Hungary shortly after the war. She was the real first post...
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S5 · E43
November 1 · 32 min
IN YIDDISH: I was a total vegetable; I survived| Mrs. Lefkowitz
For the video link, where we have embedded translations, see this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/IKWcSiy4e08 Mrs. Lefkowitz has spent her life disabled. And what a life she lived! At just 11 months old, in Israel, she contracted polio. It left...
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S5 · E42
October 25 · 46 min
Her family shunned her | Gittel Schwartz
Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/cBcXWpz0joA What do you do when you are lucky to find love, but the price of that love is losing your family? Gittel Schwartz's story is at the crossroads of happiness and heartbreak. As a young child,...
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October 23 · 1 hr 18 min
Looking back at my life 20 years ago, today
Twenty years ago today, I created a pseudonym for myself: Shpitzle Shtrimpkind. A 21-year-old Hasidic mother of a little baby boy, hiding furiously behind my alias. My first post was an attempt to defend my community. Within a month or two, I...
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S5 · E41
October 18 · 56 min
"Only girls allowed", making Orthodox women's movies | Malky Weingarten
video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/9BwmSQ0Vwsk Imagine a world where there are only women! That's the world of the filmmaker Malky Weingarten. Malky makes movies for Orthodox Jewish women and girls. This means no romance, no men on set,...
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S5 · E40
October 11 · 55 min
Hasidic sects and the question "Who will lead?" | Samuel Heilman
Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/Bt0V4N9lGfc Hasidic groups are led by Rebbes. I come from the Satmar sect, and our rebbe was Moses Teitelbaum. What happened when he passed? The community erupted in a fight over who would take over, and...
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S5 · E39
September 28 · 1 hr 5 min
My experience as a Hasidic Jew with the health world | Interview by Dr. Archelle
Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/guXQwZ9h_5U Dr Archelle from the podcast "Speak Up for Your Health" interviews youtuber Frieda Vizel about her experience growing up in the Hasidic community and experiencing the community's attitudes...
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S5 · E38
September 20 · 26 min
13 differences between SATMAR and CHABAD Jews
Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/LK2b0mAYKqA I'm tired of big youtubers conflating all Hasidic groups as one. They are so different. The community in Crown Heights is really different from the communities in Williamsburg. I visited...
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S5 · E37
September 6 · 1 hr 13 min
The major battle that split Satmar in two | Yumi Lowy
video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/NtFI3NL4dFE?si=zOhqSNq6aijFxcc4 In September 2026, the Satmar community experienced a major historic event. After decades of the community being split into two rival factions, the two brothers who led...
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September 2 · 16 min
Hasidic Rabbis to visit Trump | Reflections
Video link to this podcast: https://youtu.be/_UjXlnOVdug In September 2026, news broke that Hasidic Rabbis will meet with president Trump. This was revealed when the Satmar Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum stepped up to his congregation on Shabbos and...
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S5 · E36
August 30 · 39 min
Forty years of missionizing the faith before losing it | Jeff Parnell
Video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/Yy4Tzw-UAUc
S5 · E35
August 23 · 34 min
My experience of Kiryas Joel boyhood to manhood | Shia Friedman
Video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/vEkKjydfG3g The Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel is an unusual community in the state of New York. It's all Hasidic, very insular. It is shaped around the Satmar Hasidic code of behavior which includes...
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S5 · E34
August 16 · 37 min
AI threatens the Hasidic community; a fiery speech by Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum
Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/vUhamjWR_vA In this video, I provide a translation and analysis of a powerful Yiddish speech by the Grand Rabbi of the Satmar Hasidic sect, Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum. He addresses what he describes as the...
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S5 · E33
August 9 · 54 min
She had to cut off with the Hasidic world in order to return | Melissa Weisz
Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/mW6PTwWUVAU Melissa Weisz grew up in Hasidic, Yiddish-speaking Boro Park and left the fold well before the OTD phenomenon became famous. I believe she left the fold before me, and I'm of the old timers...
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S5 · E32
August 2 · 33 min
Alone but not lonely; inside this Hasidic woman’s world | Gita Katz
Video link: https://youtu.be/xBBW-b4yNfw Gita got married, like many Hasidic Williamsburg girls did. In an arranged match, when she was not yet twenty. Her marriage lasted until death did them part. Decades together, seven children, forty...
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S5 · E31
July 26 · 41 min
We had ONE date & got married! | Brach and Avi
Video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/LV99eySK-24 Fifteen years after their marriage was arranged, a couple reflects on their lives together. They met once for forty minutes and then got married a year later, without any contact during the...
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S5 · E30
July 19 · 51 min
Expelled from school and their world destroyed | Pessy Unstressing
Link to video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/7CBHWJwmAJI Many people know Pessy from her popular Yiddish comedy videos, where she lovingly and hilariously captures the world of Hasidic women. She was one of the first creators to bring...
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S5 · E29
July 12 · 52 min
The National Desertion Bureau | Eddy Portnoy
Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/ixZOxV5BuCI Eddy Portnoy is back by popular demand, after our wonderful discussion on the history of Yiddish language. Eddy is the exhibit curator at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and does amazing...
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July 8 · 15 min
Jews and Poland; how we tell Polish Jewish history | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Video link to this conversation: https://youtu.be/KCS9vAundms How do you tell the history of Jews in Poland? Why is there so much debate about this from Polish people? I ask the curator of the Polin museum about her work at the crux of this debate:...
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S5 · E28
July 5 · 54 min
At 83, this Jewish icon has a story to tell | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Video link: https://youtu.be/qdQi26lBQ7Q Today I have the great honor and pleasure of speaking with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a renowned scholar of Jewish culture, folklore, and performance studies. She is best known for her work exploring how...
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