Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid Livingstone Smith, "On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It" (Oxford UP 2020)
Episode 224
The phenomenon of dehumanization is associated with such atrocities as the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the Holocaust in World War II. In these and ot…
6 years, 2 months ago
Richard Breitman, "The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies"(Oxford Academic/USHMM)
Episode 120
The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies is turning twenty-five. One of the first academic journals focused on the study of the Holocaust and Ge…
6 years, 2 months ago
Nick Estes, "Our History is the Future" (Verso, 2019)
Episode 119
For the second time, Nick Estes has been gracious enough to participate in a New Books Network podcast to discuss his book Our History is the Future:…
6 years, 3 months ago
Francine Hirsch, "Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 751
How did an authoritarian regime help lay the cornerstones of human rights and international law? Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg: A New History of the …
6 years, 3 months ago
Sabine Hildebrandt, "The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich" (Berghahn, 2017)
Episode 118
Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention f…
6 years, 3 months ago
Stephan Talty, "The Good Assassin" (HMH, 2020)
Episode 749
History that reads like a thriller; The Good Assassin: How A Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down The Butcher of Latvia (Houghton Mifflin…
6 years, 3 months ago
Adam Brown, "Judging 'Privileged' Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'" (Berghahn, 2015)
Episode 191
The Nazis’ persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their per…
6 years, 4 months ago
Vincent Bevins, "The Jakarta Method" (Public Affairs, 2020)
Episode 744
Why did the word “Jakarta” appear as graffiti on the streets of Santiago in 1973? Why did left-wing Chilean activists receive postcards in the mail w…
6 years, 4 months ago
John Roosa, "Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Episode 737
On the night of September 30/October 1, 1965, a bungled coup d’état resulted in the deaths of a handful of Indonesian generals and a young girl. With…
6 years, 4 months ago
Gabriel Finder, "Justice behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Episode 117
When Americans think about trials of Holocaust perpetrators, they generally think of the Nuremberg Trials or the trial of Adolf Eichmann or perhaps o…
6 years, 4 months ago