Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBoruch Twersky, "From Moav to Mashiach" (Menucha Publishers, 2022)
Episode 328
Elimelech’s family living in Moab, the conversion of Ruth, and Boaz’s efforts to establish his permission for marrying Ruth despite her Moabite roots…
3 years, 6 months ago
Michael Frank, "One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Episode 327
With nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her Gr…
3 years, 6 months ago
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)
Episode 13
The scholarship of theology and religion teaches us that the God of the Bible was without a body, only revealing himself in the Old Testament in word…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ephraim (Alexander) Kholmyansky, "The Voice of Silence: The Story of the Jewish Underground in the USSR" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
Episode 325
The Ephraim (Alexander) Kholmyansky's book The Voice of Silence: The Story of the Jewish Underground in the USSR (Academic Studies Press, 2021) is th…
3 years, 6 months ago
J. Richard Middleton, "Abraham's Silence: The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God" (Baker Academic, 2021)
Episode 324
It is traditional to think we should praise Abraham for his willingness to sacrifice his son as proof of his love for God. But have we misread the po…
3 years, 6 months ago
Sarah Ifft Decker, "The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities" (Pennsylvania State, 2022)
Episode 16
In the thriving urban economies of late thirteenth-century Catalonia, Jewish and Christian women labored to support their families and their communit…
3 years, 7 months ago
Alan Verskin, "A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide--a Translation of Hayyim Habshush's Travelogue" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Episode 323
In 1869, Hayyim Habshush, a Yemeni Jew, accompanied the European orientalist Joseph Halévy on his archaeological tour of Yemen. Twenty years later, H…
3 years, 7 months ago
Rachel Aumiller, "A Touch of Doubt: On Haptic Scepticism" (de Gruyter, 2021)
Episode 162
What can we know about ourselves and the world through the sense of touch and what are the epistemic limits of touch? Scepticism claims that there is…
3 years, 7 months ago
John Jeffries Martin, "A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2022)
Episode 17
Professor Martin’s A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World (Yale, 2022) is a survey of Early Modern Europe…
3 years, 7 months ago
Rachel Schreiber, "Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration" (Temple UP, 2021)
Episode 322
During World War II, Elaine Black Yoneda, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, spent eight months in a concentration camp--not in Europe, but i…
3 years, 7 months ago