Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKatharine J. Dell, "The Lord by Wisdom Founded the Earth" (Baylor UP, 2023)
Episode 170
The foundation of the earth, its division from the heavens and the waters, God's provision of all of nature as well as human and animal life, God's r…
1 year, 8 months ago
Marilynne Robinson, "Reading Genesis" (FSG, 2024)
Episode 127
For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional inter…
1 year, 8 months ago
Geoffrey D. Claussen, "Modern Musar: Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought" (Jewish Publication Society, 2022)
Episode 545
Today I talked to Geoffrey D. Claussen about Modern Musar: Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought (Jewish Publication Society, 2022).
How do modern Jews …
1 year, 8 months ago
Yaacob Dweck, "Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 12
In 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that the redemption of th…
1 year, 9 months ago
Naomi Leite, "Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging" (U California Press, 2017)
Episode 320
Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging (U California Press, 2017) is a lively, readable exploration of "chosen" iden…
1 year, 9 months ago
Jeremy Salamon, "Second Generation: 100 Hungarian and Jewish Classics Reimagined for the Modern Table" (Harvest Publications, 2024)
Episode 162
From Jeremy Salamon the chef and owner of Agi’s Counter in Brooklyn comes 100 classic Hungarian and Jewish recipes reinvented for a new generation – …
1 year, 9 months ago
Oren Kroll-Zeldin, "Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 61
Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine (NYU Press, 2024) digs into the experiences of young Jewish Americans who engage w…
1 year, 9 months ago
Dan Stone, "Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 212
In Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2023), Dan Stone tells the story of the last grea…
1 year, 9 months ago
Cary Nelson, "Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
Episode 126
Completed shortly before Hamas carried out its barbaric October massacre, Cary Nelson's Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on …
1 year, 9 months ago
Ronnie Grinberg, "Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 314
In the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly …
1 year, 9 months ago