Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff, "Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making" (SUNY Press, 2020)
Episode 60
Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways. As fresh creative voi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Kirsten Fermaglich, "A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America" (NYU Press, 2018)
Episode 127
Throughout the 20th century, especially during and immediately after WWII, New York Jews changed their names at rates considerably higher than any ot…
1 year, 9 months ago
Cordelia Heß, "The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden" (de Gruyter, 2021)
Episode 543
The significance of religion for the development of modern racist antisemitism is a much debated topic in the study of Jewish-Christian relations. Co…
1 year, 9 months ago
Samuel C. Heilman and Mucahit Bilici, "Following Similar Paths: What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 124
Two academics, one Jewish and one Muslim, come together to show how much their faiths have in common—particularly in America.
This book provides a bra…
1 year, 10 months ago
Kenneth Atkinson, "A History of the Hasmonean State: Josephus and Beyond" (T&T Clark, 2019)
Episode 542
In A History of the Hasmonean State: Josephus and Beyond (T&T Clark, 2019), Kenneth Atkinson tells the exciting story of the nine decades of the Hasm…
1 year, 10 months ago
Eyal Regev, "The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred" (Yale UP, 2019)
Episode 123
Eyal Regev's The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred (Yale UP, 2019) is he first scholarly work to trace the Temple throughout the …
1 year, 10 months ago
Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 257
Ayn Rand is a provocative and polarizing figure. Strongly pro-capitalist and anti-communist, Rand was a dogmatic preacher of her moral philosophy. Ba…
1 year, 10 months ago
Jessica Roda, "For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 541
Mainstream portrayals of ultra-Orthodox religious women often frame their faith as oppressive: they are empowered only when they leave their communit…
1 year, 10 months ago
Shai Held, "Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life" (FSG, 2024)
Episode 538
A common misconception has shaped the history of the West: Christianity is seen as the religion of love, and Judaism as the religion of law. Addressi…
1 year, 10 months ago
Janine P. Holc, "The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
Episode 539
Beginning in late 1940, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec, Poland, and its surroundin…
1 year, 10 months ago