Podcast Episodes

Elisabeth Åsbrink, "1947: Where Now Begins" (Other Press, 2019)

An award-winning writer captures a year that defined the modern world, intertwining historical events around the globe with key moments from her pers…

11 months, 1 week ago

Jonathon Stuart Wright, "Joseph and Aseneth After Antiquity: A Study in Manuscript Transmission" (de Gruyter, 2025)

Joseph and Aseneth: A Study in Manuscript Transmission (de Gruyter, 2025) expands a few verses from the book of Genesis into a novella-length work. I…

11 months, 1 week ago

Yonatan Y. Brafman, "Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity" (Oxford UP, 2024)

For centuries, Jewish thinkers have asked two parallel questions. First, what is the reasoning behind an individual commandment and second, why bothe…

11 months, 1 week ago

Elana Gomel, "The Pilgrim Soul: Being a Russian in Israel" (Cambria Press, 2009)

Elana Gomel is a former senior lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at Tel Aviv University, where she also served as department…

11 months, 1 week ago

Ewa Herbst, "Visionaries from Lviv: The Story of a Jewish Hospital" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)

Year 2023 marked 120 years of the Lazarus Jewish Hospital in Lviv (Lwów/Lemberg). This richly illustrated book is a tribute to its place in the once-…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Nicholas de Lange, "Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Greek Bible Translations in Byzantine Judaism" (Mohr Siebeck, 2016)

Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Greek Bible Translations in Byzantine Judaism (Mohr Siebeck, 2016) is the first book-length treatment of the reception …

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Ezra Glinter, "Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah" (Yale UP, 2024)

The Chabad-Lubavitch movement, one of the world’s best-known Hasidic groups, is driven by the belief that we are on the verge of the messianic age. T…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Semmy Stalhammer, "Codename Barber: My Father’s Story" (Albert Bonniers Publishers, 2007)

The Nazi threat emerges from Germany 1933 and shatters the small town life in Krasnik south of Lublin in eastern Poland. The teenager Mischa Stahlham…

1 year ago

Dave Margoshes, "A Simple Carpenter" (Radiant Press, 2024)

NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with award-winning author Dave Margoshes’ novel, A Simple Carpenter (Radiant Press, 2024)—which recently won a Saskat…

1 year ago

Elisabeth Åsbrink "And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Family Torn Apart by War" (Other Press, 2020)

Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and a Notable Translated Book of the Year by World Literature Today

Winner of the August Prize, the s…

1 year ago