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Back to SearchPinchas Blitt, "A Promise of Sweet Tea" (Azrieli Foundation, 2021)
Episode 408
Today I talked to Pinchas Blitt about his Holocaust memoir A Promise of Sweet Tea (Azrieli Foundation, 2021).
In a village in prewar Eastern Europe, y…
3 years, 4 months ago
New Histories of Violence in and around the Second World War
Episode 236
Why does state-led and intercommunal violence occur? How do past episodes of mass violence reverberate in the present? How do victims and perpetrator…
3 years, 4 months ago
Randy Grigsby, "A Train to Palestine: The Tehran Children, Anders' Army and Their Escape from Stalin's Siberia, 1939-1943" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2019)
Episode 52
In October 1938, eight-year-old Josef Rosenbaum, his mother, and his younger sister set out from Germany on a cruel odyssey, fleeing into eastern Eur…
3 years, 4 months ago
Eliyana R. Adler and Katerina Capková, "Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Episode 407
Diaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the Nazi regime exper…
3 years, 4 months ago
Aomar Boum, "Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 404
In the lead-up to World War II, the rising tide of fascism and antisemitism in Europe foreshadowed Hitler's genocidal campaign against Jews. But the …
3 years, 5 months ago
Elly Gotz, "Flights of Spirit" (Azrieli Foundation, 2018)
Episode 401
Today I talked to Elly Gotz, author of the memoir Flights of Spirit (Azrieli Foundation, 2018).
Sixteen-year-old Elly Gotz hides with his family in an…
3 years, 5 months ago
Simon Geissbühler, ed., "Romania and the Holocaust: Events, Contexts, Aftermath" (Ibidem Press, 2016)
Episode 400
From summer 1941 onwards, Romania actively pursued at its own initiative the mass killing of Jews in the territories it controlled. 1941 saw 13,000 J…
3 years, 5 months ago
Nerina Weiss et al., "The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 188
Nerina Weiss. Erella Grassiani, and Linda Green's book The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World (Routledge, 2022) focuses on th…
3 years, 5 months ago
Bedross Der Matossian, "Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Episode 186
Throughout the twenty-first century, genocide denial has evolved and adapted with new strategies to augment and complement established modes of denia…
3 years, 5 months ago
Shanee Stepakoff, "Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone" (Bucknell UP, 2021)
Episode 48
Content note: This episode contains discussions of violence, including rape and mutilation
Derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes t…
3 years, 5 months ago