Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLucas F. W. Wilson, "At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Narratives" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Narratives (Rutgers UP, 2025) examines the relationship betwe…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Rachel Fell McDermott and Daniel F. Polish, "A Hindu-Jewish Conversation: Root Traditions in Dialogue" (Lexington Books, 2024)
This book engages historically and theologically with the Hindu and Jewish traditions, covering conceptions of the divine, religious heroes, women, d…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Steven Scott Eichenblatt, "Pretend They Are Dead: A Father's Search for the Truth" (Christmas Lake Press, 2025)
When Steven's dad, Allen, disappeared, he left behind more than his children-he left a legacy of loss and family secrets. Though working just miles a…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Anastasios Karababas, "In the Footsteps of the Jews of Greece: From Ancient Times to the Present Day" (Vallentine Mitchell & Co, 2024)
“To live, a people must always be able to know its past, to judge it, to accept it.”
— Simone Veil, French politician and Shoah survivor
When I sat do…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Sonja Stahlhammer, "Sonja’s Journey: Through Life and the Death Camps" (2022)
Episode 660
The Nazis invade Poland. The young, cheerful and zestful Sonja Stahlhammer (born Zysa Mariem Kohn) is forced together with her family and relatives i…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Daniel I. Block, "Hearing the Gospel According to Moses Volume 2: Chapters 12-23" (Inspirata, 2024)
Some time ago, we spoke with Daniel Block about volume 1 of his Deuteronomy commentary, Hearing the Gospel According to Moses. Tune in as we hear fro…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Yardena Schwartz, "Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (Union Square, 2024)
Episode 658
In this interview, Yardena Schwartz discusses her book Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict, o…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Robert G. Morrison, "Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Between 1450 and 1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean. As Renaissance Europe depended on kn…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Andrew Tobolowsky, "Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 56
Andrew Tobolowsky's Israel and Its Heirs in Late Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2025) explores constructions of Israelite identity among Jewish, Samaritan …
11 months ago
Michael Marmur, "Living The Letters: An Alphabet of Emerging Jewish Thought" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
Today, most Jewish thinkers have turned away from theology. And if they do, they look into one narrow window into the subject, writing a treatise int…
11 months ago