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Back to SearchDina Porat, "Vengeance and Retribution Are Mine: Community, the Holocaust, and Abba Kovner's Avengers" (Pardes, 2019)
Episode 952
Vengeance and Retribution Are Mine: Community, the Holocaust, and Abba Kovner's Avengers (Pardes, 2019) is a book by Israeli historian Dina Porat on …
5 years, 6 months ago
Laura Robson, "The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 137
My students are generally 19 or 20 or 21. They have never known the Middle East without American boots on the ground. They have never turned on the n…
5 years, 7 months ago
Jeffrey Shandler, "Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors' Stories and New Media Practices" (Stanford UP, 2017)
Episode 128
How do technological advances and changing archival practices alter historical memory? In what ways have developments in the preservation and dissemi…
5 years, 7 months ago
K. F. Anderson and E. Jessee, "Researching Perpetrators of Genocide" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Episode 136
Researchers often face significant and unique ethical and methodological challenges when conducting qualitative field work among people who have been…
5 years, 8 months ago
Juliane Okot Bitek, "100 Days" (U Alberta Press, 2016)
Episode 191
Juliane Okot Bitek, of the Emily Carr University of Art and Design and writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University, has written a terrific book of…
5 years, 8 months ago
Khatchig Mouradian, "The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918" (MSU Press, 2020)
Episode 906
The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 (Michigan State University Press, 2020) is the history …
5 years, 8 months ago
A. Pohlman et al., "The International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian Genocide" (Routledge, 2019)
Episode 135
How do you hold a government accountable for crimes it refuses to acknowledge?
Today's book, The International People's Tribunal for 1965 and the Ind…
5 years, 9 months ago
Emmanuel Kreike, "Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 63
In Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature (Princeton UP, 2021), Emmanuel Kreike offers a global history of envi…
5 years, 9 months ago
Natasha Zaretsky, "Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Episode 752
Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina (Rutgers UP, 2021) explores how ordinary people grapple with political violen…
5 years, 9 months ago
Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann, "Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Episode 132
Spain has for too long been considered peripheral to the human catastrophes of World War II and the Holocaust. This volume is the first broadly inter…
5 years, 9 months ago