Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIgor H. De Souza, "Rewriting Maimonides: Early Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed" (de Gruyter, 2018)
Episode 352
Maimonideanism, the intellectual culture inspired by Maimonides’ writings, has received much recent attention. Yet a central aspect of Maimonideanism…
3 years, 4 months ago
Silvia Nacamulli, "Jewish Flavours of Italy: A Family Cookbook" (Green Bean Books, 2022)
Episode 351
Jewish Flavours of Italy: A Family Cookbook (Green Bean Books, 2022) is a culinary journey through Italy and a deep dive into family culinary heritag…
3 years, 4 months ago
Frank Wolff, "Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund" (Haymarket Books, 2021)
Episode 350
Frank Wolff's ground-breaking Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund (Haymarket Books, 2021) inves…
3 years, 4 months ago
Progressive Souls: Religion and the Pursuit of a Just Society (Part 2)
Episode 21
Religious people have played an important role in progressive politics in the US for its entire history. Contemporary leftists should look to build b…
3 years, 4 months ago
Progressive Souls: Religion and the Pursuit of a Just Society (Part 1)
Episode 20
Religious people have played an important role in progressive politics in the US for its entire history. Contemporary leftists should look to build b…
3 years, 4 months ago
Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 230
Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of the Night and again in 1980 for The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer's life co…
3 years, 4 months ago
Nothing Matters: About the Idea of "Emptiness"
Episode 16
Between the Buddhist doctrine of ‘emptiness,’ the Jewish idea of Ayin, and the quantum mechanical zero-point energy of a vacuum, it turns out there’s…
3 years, 4 months ago
James M. Deem, "The Prisoners of Breendonk: Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp" (Mariner Books, 2020)
Episode 343
Fort Breendonk was built in the early 1900s to protect Antwerp, Belgium, from possible German invasion. Damaged at the start of World War I, it fell …
3 years, 4 months ago
Elia Meghnagi, "Escape from Benghazi: Diary of an Imposter" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)
Episode 349
Elia Meghnagi last saw his childhood home in Benghazi when he was only seventeen. A member of the endangered and fast-shrinking millennia-old Jewish …
3 years, 4 months ago
Donna Stein, "Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch" (Skira, 2022)
Episode 130
Characterized by a search for meaning, Hirsch’s oeuvre connects psychological, scientific, and philosophical implications of form, bringing together …
3 years, 4 months ago