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Back to SearchBéla Bodó, "Black Humor and the White Terror" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 419
Béla Bodó's book Black Humor and the White Terror (Routledge, 2023) examines political humor as a reaction to the lost war, the post-war chaos, and a…
2 years, 10 months ago
Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Episode 191
Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence th…
2 years, 10 months ago
Ben Nadler, "The Jewish Deli: An Illustrated Guide to the Chosen Food" (Chronicle Books, 2023)
Episode 123
Beloved culinary and cultural institutions, Jewish delis are wonderlands of amazing flavors and great food—bright, buttery, briny, sweet, fatty, salt…
2 years, 10 months ago
Judith Roumani, "Jews in Southern Tuscany During the Holocaust" (Lexington Books, 2020)
Episode 418
The province of Grosseto in southern Tuscany shows two extremes in the treatment of Italian and foreign Jews during the Holocaust. To the east of the…
2 years, 10 months ago
David Curwin, "Kohelet: A Map to Eden" (Maggid, 2023)
Episode 417
The book of Kohelet or Ecclesiastes is one of the most challenging biblical books to comprehend, yet it is traditionally read on every Sukkot, the Fe…
2 years, 10 months ago
Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon, 2022)
Episode 416
Today I talked to Joseph Sassoon about his book The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire (Pantheon, 2022)
They were one of…
2 years, 10 months ago
Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, "The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 415
Early Judaism is often described as the religion of the book par excellence—a movement built around the study of the Bible and steeped in a culture o…
2 years, 11 months ago
Daniel Boyarin, "The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 414
Daniel Boyarin's new book The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto (Yale University Press, 2023) is a provocative anti-Zionist manifesto pleading fo…
2 years, 11 months ago
Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, eds., "A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 413
A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Leila Sebbar (U California Press, 2023) brings together the fascin…
2 years, 11 months ago
Jennifer Caplan, "Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
Episode 412
In this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to ad…
2 years, 11 months ago