Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid J. Goldberg, “Rabbi With A Cause: Israel and Identity” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 35
Rabbi With A Cause: Israel and Identity is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and David J. Goldberg (1939-2019), former S…
4 years, 9 months ago
Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz. "The Essential Talmud" (Maggid, 2010)
Episode 239
The Talmud ‘is the central pillar supporting the entire spiritual and intellectual edifice of Jewish life’—so wrote Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz…
4 years, 9 months ago
Naphtaly Shem-Tov, "Israeli Theatre: Mizrahi Jews and Self-Representation" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 27
Naphtaly Shem-Tov's book Israeli Theatre: Mizrahi Jews and Self-Representation (Routledge, 2021) introduces readers to the stagecraft produced by Miz…
4 years, 9 months ago
Stanley Mirvis, "The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Yale UP, 2020)
Episode 1057
Stanley Mirvis' The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition (Yale University Press, 2020) offers an in…
4 years, 9 months ago
Ilana Maymind, "Exile and Otherness: The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides" (Lexington Books, 2020)
Episode 78
In Exile and Otherness: The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides (Lexington Books, 2020), Ilana Maymind argues that Shinran (1173–1263), the founder of T…
4 years, 9 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.…
4 years, 9 months ago
Daniel A. Klein (trans.), "Shadal on Leviticus" (Kodesh Press, 2020)
Episode 238
Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865), known by his Hebrew acronym Shadal, was the leading Italian Jewish scholar of the 19th century. A linguist, educat…
4 years, 9 months ago
Mika Ahuvia, "On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 237
Angelic beings can be found throughout the Hebrew Bible, and by late antiquity the archangels Michael and Gabriel were as familiar as the patriarchs …
4 years, 9 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…
4 years, 9 months ago
Leonard J. Greenspoon, "Olam Ha-zeh V'olam Ha-ba: This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice" (Purdue UP, 2017)
Episode 236
Olam Ha-zeh V'olam Ha-ba: This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice (Purdue UP, 2017), for which Professor Greenspoon served as …
4 years, 10 months ago