Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPhilip W. Blood, "Birds of Prey: Hitler's Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
Episode 137
Birds of Prey: Hitler's Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland (Ibidem Press, 2021) is a microhistory of the Nazi occupation of Bi…
3 years, 2 months ago
Omer Bartov, "The Butterfly and the Axe" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2023)
Episode 381
Spring 1944. A Jewish family is murdered in a remote Ukrainian village. Who were they? Who were the killers?
Three generations later, an Israeli woman…
3 years, 2 months ago
Sharon Shalom, "From Sinai to Ethiopia: The Halakhic and Conceptual World of the Ethiopian Jews" (Gefen Books, 2016)
Episode 381
Some two thousand years ago, a group of Jews settled in Ethiopia and was for millennia cut off from the rest of world Jewry, preserving its heritage …
3 years, 3 months ago
The Sobibor and Treblinka Death Camps: A Discussion with Chris Webb
Episode 380
Today I talked to historian Chris Web about two books detailing the workings of the Nazi extermination camps:
Chris Webb, The Sobibor Death Camp: Hi…3 years, 3 months ago
Kiril Feferman, "If We Had Wings We Would Fly to You: A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction 1941-42" (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
Episode 377
If We Had Wings We Would Fly to You: A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction 1941-42 (Academic Studies Press, 2020) is the first work in any languag…
3 years, 3 months ago
On Chaim Grade’s "The Yeshiva"
Episode 376
Chaim Grade’s novel, Tsemakh Atlas: Der Yeshivah, was originally published in Yiddish in the late 1960s. Considered a landmark of modern Yiddish lite…
3 years, 3 months ago
Jordan Gorfinkel, "The Koren Tanakh Graphic Novel: Esther" (Koren, 2023)
Episode 379
The Koren Tanakh Graphic Novel: Esther (Koren, 2023) contains the complete unabridged Hebrew text of Megillat Esther, and is suitable for use on Puri…
3 years, 3 months ago
Reuven Mohl, "Faith Fulfilled: Megillat Esther and Ma'ariv Evening Service for Purim" (Urim Publications, 2022)
Episode 378
Faith Fulfilled: Megillat Esther and Ma'ariv Evening Service for Purim (Urim Publications, 2022) presents selections of the writings of Rabbi Eliezer…
3 years, 3 months ago
Francine Lazarus, "A Hidden Jewish Child from Belgium: Survival, Scars and Healing" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2017)
Episode 375
Francine Lazarus survived WWII in Belgium hidden with strangers, isolated from her family, and moved from place to place. She witnessed murder and wa…
3 years, 3 months ago
Measure for Measure Episode 2: Olives
Episode 61
Jews are ritually obligated to eat matzah during Passover. But how much matzah? Well, that depends on your views on the size of an olive.
This episod…
3 years, 3 months ago