Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSuzanna Eibuszyc, "Memory Is Our Home: Loss and Remembering--Three Generations in Poland and Russia 1917-1960s" (Ibidem, 2022)
Episode 387
A courageous young woman escaping Nazi Germany, with no choice other than to leave her family behind...
Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc was born in Warsaw n…
3 years, 2 months ago
Roni Mikel-Arieli, "Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State: Holocaust Memory in South Africa from Apartheid to Democracy (1948-1994)" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Episode 385
The lens of apartheid-era Jewish commemorations of the Holocaust in South Africa reveals the fascinating transformation of a diasporic community. Thr…
3 years, 2 months ago
Karen Baum Gordon, "The Last Letter: A Father's Struggle, a Daughter's Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust" (U Tennessee Press, 2021)
Episode 144
Born a German Jew in 1915, Rudy Baum was eighty-six years old when he sealed the garage door of his Dallas home, turned on the car ignition, and trie…
3 years, 2 months ago
Kieron Pim, "Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth" (Granta Books, 2022)
Episode 213
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth (Granta Books, 2022) travels with Roth from his childhood in the town of Brody on the eastern edge of the Aus…
3 years, 2 months ago
Max Kaiser, "Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 383
Max Kaiser's book Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) takes a timely look at histories of radi…
3 years, 2 months ago
Publishing Jewish Children's Books: A Chat with Joni Sussman
Episode 84
Joni Sussman talks about her love for children's books and for everything Jewish and how she found her life's mission combining these passions as pub…
3 years, 2 months ago
Simon Parkin, "The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp" (Scribner, 2022)
Episode 139
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp (Scribner, 2022 is the “rive…
3 years, 2 months ago
Ellin Bessner, "Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II" (New Jewish Press, 2018)
Episode 28
Today I talked to Ellin Bessner about her book Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II (New Jewish Press, 2018).
"He died so Jewr…
3 years, 2 months ago
Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)
Episode 372
Superman is the original superhero, an American icon, and arguably the most famous character in the world--and he's Jewish! Introduced in June 1938, …
3 years, 2 months ago
Book Talk 58: Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman
Episode 129
What Is to Be Done?
In her luminous biography Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life (Yale UP, 2011), Vivian Gornick brings us back to this questio…
3 years, 2 months ago