Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSteven Press, "Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 147
Since the late 1990s, activists have campaigned to remove "conflict diamonds" from jewelry shops and department stores. But if the problem of conflic…
3 years, 2 months ago
Joshua Cohen’s "The Netanyahus" (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
Episode 110
n this episode (originally aired by our partner Novel Dialogue) John and his Brandeis colleague Eugene Sheppard speak with Joshua Cohen about The Net…
3 years, 2 months ago
Stipe Odak et al., "Jasenovac Concentration Camp: An Unfinished Past" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 192
In Jasenovac Concentration Camp: An Unfinished Past (Routledge, 2023), Kuznar, Lucic and Odak provide a wide-ranging collection of essays about the m…
3 years, 3 months ago
Paul Hanebrink, "In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Episode 192
In this important historical account of the role that religion played in defining the political life of a modern national society, Paul A. Hanebrink …
3 years, 3 months ago
Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Episode 191
Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence th…
3 years, 3 months ago
Judith Roumani, "Jews in Southern Tuscany During the Holocaust" (Lexington Books, 2020)
Episode 418
The province of Grosseto in southern Tuscany shows two extremes in the treatment of Italian and foreign Jews during the Holocaust. To the east of the…
3 years, 3 months ago
Sarah Federman and Ronald Niezen, "Narratives of Mass Atrocity: Victims and Perpetrators in the Aftermath" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 190
Individuals can assume—and be assigned—multiple roles throughout a conflict: perpetrators can be victims, and vice versa; heroes can be reassessed as…
3 years, 3 months ago
Jane Rogoyska, "Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth" (Oneworld, 2021)
Episode 194
Committed in utmost secrecy in April-May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded i…
3 years, 3 months ago
Edward Kissi, "Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 161
This book is an original and comparative study of reactions in West and East Africa to the persecution and attempted annihilation of Jews in Europe a…
3 years, 4 months ago
Giulia Pecorella, "The United States of America and the Crime of Aggression" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 189
Giulia Pecorella's The United States of America and the Crime of Aggression (Routledge, 2021) traces the position of the United States of America on …
3 years, 4 months ago