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Back to SearchElly Gotz, "Flights of Spirit" (Azrieli Foundation, 2018)
Episode 401
Today I talked to Elly Gotz, author of the memoir Flights of Spirit (Azrieli Foundation, 2018).
Sixteen-year-old Elly Gotz hides with his family in an…
3 years ago
Simon Geissbühler, ed., "Romania and the Holocaust: Events, Contexts, Aftermath" (Ibidem Press, 2016)
Episode 400
From summer 1941 onwards, Romania actively pursued at its own initiative the mass killing of Jews in the territories it controlled. 1941 saw 13,000 J…
3 years ago
Daniel Gordis, "Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?" (Ecco Press, 2023)
Episode 97
In 1948, Israel’s founders had much more in mind than the creation of a state. They sought not mere sovereignty but also a “national home for the Jew…
3 years ago
Oded Zinger, "Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Episode 399
Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023) explores the marital disputes of Jews in medi…
3 years ago
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)
Episode 96
The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, …
3 years ago
Samantha Pickette, "Peak TV's Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy" (Lexington, 2022)
Episode 398
In Peak TV’s Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy (Lexington Books, 2022), Samantha Pi…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ephraim Chamiel, "To Know Torah" (2018)
Episode 397
Would you like to learn about the Pentateuch from a Jewish point of view, digging deep into the plain meaning of the Bible's stories and commandments…
3 years, 1 month ago
Daniel Roth, "Third-Party Peacemakers in Judaism: Text, Theory, and Practice" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 95
In the race to discover real solutions for the conflicts that plague contemporary society, it is essential that we look to precedent. Many of today's…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ostap Kin, "Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond" (HURI, 2022)
Episode 20
In 2021, the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of the massacres of Jews at Babyn Yar. The present collection brings together for the first time…
3 years, 1 month ago
Remember the Sabbath (with Senator Joe Lieberman)
Episode 50
Today I talked with Senator Joe Lieberman—who ran for Vice President in 2000 with Al Gore, and for President in 2004 in the Democratic primary—about …
3 years, 1 month ago