Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAndreas Hackl, "The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Episode 45
The city of Tel Aviv presents itself as a bastion of liberal values, tolerance, and ultimately of freedom. But like many self-definitions, there is s…
3 years, 8 months ago
NBN Classic: Paul Hanebrink, "A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Episode 182
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time.
In A Specter Haunting Europe: …
3 years, 8 months ago
NBN Classic: Marc Dollinger, "Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s" (Brandeis UP, 2018)
Episode 170
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time.
In Black Power, Jewish Politic…
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NBN Classic: Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, "Holiness and Transgression Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth" (ASP, 2017)
Episode 192
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time.
In this interview, Ruth Kara-I…
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NBN Classic: Alexander Gendler, "Khurbm 1914-1922: Prelude to the Holocaust" (Varda Books, 2019)
Episode 186
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time.
The murder of two-thirds of Eu…
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Frederick Beiser, "Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Biography" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Episode 175
The eminent scholar of Neo-Kantianism, Frederick Beiser, has struck again, this time bringing his considerable analytical powers and erudition to the…
3 years, 8 months ago
Dario Miccoli, "A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Episode 195
A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean (Indiana UP, 2022) tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterrane…
3 years, 8 months ago
Corinne E. Blackmer, "Queering Anti-Zionism: Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
Episode 82
Why do some scholars sacrifice truth and logic to political ideology and peer acceptance?
With courage and intellectual integrity, queer scholar-activ…
3 years, 8 months ago
David Bashevkin, "Sin•a•gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
Episode 317
By its very nature, the ideals of religion entail sin and failure. Judaism has its own language and framework for sin that expresses themselves both …
3 years, 8 months ago
Sara Ronis, "Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 318
The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In Demons in…
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