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Back to SearchEuropean Jews in the 21st Century
Episode 2573
What is the status of Jews in Europe in the 21st century? How do they maintain vital communities? Do they desire to remain in Europe? To remain Jewis…
4 months ago
Marinus De Jong, "A Church for a Secular World: The Development of Klaas Schilder's Ecclesiology" (Brill, 2025)
Episode 2572
The relationship between the Church and the world has been a subject of debate since the Church's earliest days. In A Church for a Secular World: Th…
4 months, 1 week ago
Curtis Dozier, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" (Yale UP, 2026)
Episode 2571
Curtis Dozier's The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate (Yale University Press, 2026) explores how w…
4 months, 1 week ago
Jake Dyble, "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany" (Boydell Press, 2025)
Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the source of the risk-management institutions that still unde…
4 months, 1 week ago
Don Thomas Deere, "The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space" (Duke UP, 2026)
Episode 2570
In The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space (Duke University Press, 2026), Don Thomas Deere retraces the colonial origins of spatial o…
4 months, 1 week ago
Tania Sengupta and Stuart King eds., "Reclaiming Colonial Architecture" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 2569
Reclaiming Colonial Architecture (Routledge, 2024) explores the built inheritance of colonialism and considers how architects, heritage practitioner…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Matti Friedman, "Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe" (Spiegel & Grau, 2026)
Episode 2567
Was it one of the war’s most memorable feats of valor or an act of desperation, even madness?
In Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe (…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Brexit Britain: 10 Years on from the Referendum
Episode 2568
Anniversaries provide opportunities to take stock and reflect. It is now ten years since voters in the United Kingdom cast their ballots in a referen…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Stephen C.E. Hopkins, "Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Episode 2566
In the Middle Ages, hell was useful because it was vaguely defined. Canonical scriptures scarcely mention hell, leaving much to the imaginations of …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Sarah M. Cushman et al eds., "The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau" (Routledge, 2026)
Episode 2565
The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau (Routledge, 2026) examines Auschwitz-Birkenau as both a site and a symbol of Nazi genocide. Scholars fro…
4 months, 2 weeks ago