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Back to SearchElliott Rabin, "The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
Episode 305
Today I talked to Elliott Rabin about his book The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility (Jewish Publication Society, 2020).
Approachin…
3 years, 10 months ago
Francine Friedman, "Like Salt for Bread: The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Brill, 2021)
Episode 303
Francine Friedman's Like Salt for Bread: The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Brill, 2021) is the only comprehensive treatment in any language of a ra…
3 years, 10 months ago
Beverley Chalmers, "Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule" (Grosvenor House, 2015)
Episode 28
Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule (Grosvenor House, 2015) is a fascinating and gripping examination of birth, sex and abuse during…
3 years, 10 months ago
Evan Berry, "Climate Politics and the Power of Religion" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Episode 122
How does our faith affect how we think about and respond to climate change?
Climate Politics and the Power of Religion (Indiana University Press, 2022…
3 years, 10 months ago
Yehudah Mirsky, "Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
Episode 301
Avraham Yitzhaq Ha-Cohen Kook (1865-1935) stands as a colossal figure of modern Jewish history and thought. Jurist, mystic, poet, theologian, communa…
3 years, 10 months ago
John F. Sears, "Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish Plight, and the Founding of Israel" (Purdue UP, 2021)
Episode 302
Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish Plight, and the Founding of Israel (Purdue UP, 2021) details the evolution of Eleanor Roosevelt f…
3 years, 10 months ago
Tova Ganzel, "Ezekiel: From Destruction to Restoration" (Maggid, 2020)
Episode 300
The prophet Ezekiel speaks from a unique perspective: he resides in Babylonia, yet laments the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem; his prophecies…
3 years, 10 months ago
Matt Reingold, "Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis" (Lexington, 2022)
Episode 42
Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis (Lexington Books, 2022) by Matt Reingold, pu…
3 years, 10 months ago
Robin Dunbar, "How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 77
What is the evolutionary purpose of religion, and are some individuals more inclined than others to be religious?
Our species diverged from the great …
3 years, 11 months ago
Vered Noam, "Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Episode 298
The shifting image of the Hasmoneans in the eyes of their contemporaries and later generations is a compelling issue in the history of the Maccabean …
3 years, 11 months ago