Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlex Alvarez and Richard R. Fernandez, "Lethal Elites: The Institutions and Professionals That Made the Holocaust Possible" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Lethal Elites: The Institutions and Professionals That Made the Holocaust Possible (Bloomsbury, 2025) is an eye-opening book highlights the role of …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Howard Alan Israel, "Nazi Anatomy Lessons: A Dissection of Evil" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2026)
Episode 712
What if the tools that shaped your life’s work were rooted in unimaginable evil?
In this haunting episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with Dr. Howard …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Karen Bermann, "The Art of Being a Stranger: A Family Memoir" (New Jewish Press, 2025)
Karen Bermann grew up in the mad orbit of her father, Fritz, the rebellious child of a Viennese Orthodox Jewish family who fled Europe alone as an ad…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Daniel R. Langton, "Darwin in the Jewish Imagination: Jews' Engagement with Evolutionary Theory" (Oxford UP, 2026)
In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with Professor Daniel Langton, author of Darwin in the Jewish Imagination: Jews' Engagement with Evolution…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
164 Maurice Samuels: Jewish Assimilation, Integration and the Dreyfus Affair (JP)
Episode 164
When it comes to the condition of Jews in Christian Europe, France was long known as the haven and heartland of integration and of toleration. And ye…
4 months ago
Rob Kutner, "The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting" (Wicked Son, 2025)
The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting (Wicked Son, 2025) is packed with Jew-facts, Jew-figures, and the original, never-before-seen documents from thos…
4 months ago
Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach, "A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe" (Princeton UP, 2025)
In small villages, bustling cities, and crowded ghettos across early modern Europe, Jewish women were increasingly active participants in the daily l…
4 months, 1 week ago
Noam Sienna, "Jewish Books in North Africa: Between the Early Modern and Modern Worlds" (Indiana UP, 2025)
Author Noam Sienna unveils a vast Sephardic world created by these books. This literary network transcended geographical boundaries, connecting Jewis…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Miriam Udel, "Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 705
As migration carried Yiddish to several continents during the long twentieth century, an increasingly global community of speakers and readers clung …
5 months ago
Adam S. Ferziger. "Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 706
In this episode Drora Arussy speaks with historian Adam S. Ferziger about his latest book, Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of …
5 months ago