Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBojan Aleksov, "Jewish Refugees in the Balkans, 1933-1945" (Brill, 2023)
Episode 479
The Balkans provided the escape route for tens of thousands of German Jews, and remained a place of refuge until the Nazis brutally shut it off with …
2 years, 3 months ago
Till Van Rahden, "Multiplicity: Jewish History and the Ambivalences of Universalism" (Hamburger Editionen, 2022)
Episode 158
Since the Enlightenment, the question has arisen as to how it is possible to think of the “unity of the human race” as a multiplicity. How can the pr…
2 years, 3 months ago
Raanan Rein, "Populism and Ethnicity: Peronism and the Jews of Argentina" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
Episode 478
Juan Perón's decade-long regime, from 1946 to 1955, is often presented as Nazi-fascist and antisemitic - claims that are strongly rooted in Argentina…
2 years, 3 months ago
Safwat Marzouk, "Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel" (Mohr Siebeck, 2015)
Episode 146
Appealing to Monster Theory and the ancient Near Eastern motif of "Chaoskampf," Safwat Marzouk argues that the paradoxical character of the category …
2 years, 3 months ago
Mara Josi, "Rome, 16 October 1943: History, Memory, Literature" (Legenda, 2023)
Episode 141
Today I talked to Mara Josi about her new book Rome, 16 October 1943: History, Memory, Literature (Legenda, 2023).
Rome. Saturday 16 October 1943. Thi…
2 years, 3 months ago
Daphna Sharfman, "Jerusalem in the Second World War" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 477
Daphna Sharfman's book Jerusalem in the Second World War (Routledge, 2024) is the first to present the unique story of the city of Jerusalem during t…
2 years, 3 months ago
Jewish War Ethics, Ancient to Contemporary: A Conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Brody
Episode 96
How should we think about violent accounts in the Bible? Why did Gandhi urge the Jews to turn a blind eye to anti-Semitism during World War II? What …
2 years, 4 months ago
Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent" (Yale UP, 2019)
Episode 171
In Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent (Yale University Press, 2019), Paul Mendes-Flohr, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Divini…
2 years, 4 months ago
George Eisen, "A Summer of Mass Murder: 1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust" (Purdue UP, 2022)
Episode 476
Most accounts of the Holocaust focus on trainloads of prisoners speeding toward Auschwitz, with its chimneys belching smoke and flames, in the summer…
2 years, 4 months ago
More on "Cleanliness" (nekiyut)
Episode 18
On this week's episode, Modya and David discuss the Torah portion of Mishpatim (Ex. 21:1-24:18) through the lens of the character trait of nekiyut, o…
2 years, 4 months ago