Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEliyana R. Adler, "Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Episode 244
Between 1940 and 1946, thousands of Jewish refugees from Poland lived and toiled in the harsh Soviet interior. They endured hard labor, bitter cold, …
5 years ago
John-Paul Himka, "Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust: OUN and UPA's Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941-1944" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
Episode 129
One quarter of all Holocaust victims lived on the territory that now forms Ukraine, yet the Holocaust there has not received due attention. John-Paul…
5 years ago
John Cox, et al., "Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide?" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 148
Genocide denial not only abuses history and insults the victims but paves the way for future atrocities. Yet few, if any, books have offered a compar…
5 years ago
Jeffrey Veidlinger, "In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
Episode 127
Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil …
5 years ago
Dora Osborne, "What Remains: The Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture" (Camden House, 2020)
Episode 112
With the passing of those who witnessed National Socialism and the Holocaust, the archive matters as never before. However, the material that remains…
5 years, 1 month ago
Barrett Holmes Pitner, "The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America" (Counterpoint, 2021)
Episode 146
Can new language reshape our understanding of the past and expand the possibilities of the future? The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the Erasur…
5 years, 2 months ago
Eliza Ablovatski, "Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe: The Deluge of 1919" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 120
In the wake of the First World War and Russian Revolutions, Central Europeans in 1919 faced a world of possibilities, threats, and extreme contrasts.…
5 years, 2 months ago
Elizabeth Anthony, "The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews After the Holocaust" (Wayne State UP, 2021)
Episode 145
Most often our engagement with the Holocaust is a process of wrestling with the absence of presence and the presence of absence. This is right and im…
5 years, 2 months ago
Sinja Graf, "The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 532
We often hear or read the phrase “crimes against humanity” when we learn about the Holocaust, or genocide in places like Rwanda or Serbia. And just a…
5 years, 4 months ago
Alexander Laban Hinton, "It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US" (NYU Press, 2021)
Episode 144
If many people were shocked by Donald Trump’s 2016 election, many more were stunned when, months later, white supremacists took to the streets of Cha…
5 years, 4 months ago