Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchYehudah Mirsky, "Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution" (Yale UP, 2014)
Episode 297
A powerfully original thinker, Rav Kook combined strict traditionalism and an embrace of modernity, Orthodoxy and tolerance, piety and audacity, scho…
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Christopher Silver, "Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 299
Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa (Stanford UP, 2022) offers a new history of twentieth-century North…
3 years, 11 months ago
Archie T. Wright, "Satan and the Problem of Evil: From the Bible to the Early Church Fathers" (Fortress Press, 2022)
Episode 91
Satan's transformation from opaque functionary to chief antagonist is one of the most striking features of the development of Jewish theology in the …
3 years, 11 months ago
Marc David Baer, "German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Episode 217
Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one o…
3 years, 11 months ago
Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press/Profile Books, 2022)
In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn’t r…
3 years, 11 months ago
Nathan A. Kurz, "Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 296
In Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust (Cambridge UP, 2020), Nathan A. Kurz charts the fraught relationship between Jewish i…
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W. H. Bellinger Jr., "Introducing Old Testament Theology" (Baker Academic, 2021)
Episode 90
A senior scholar and teacher with four decades of classroom experience offers a concise, student-level theology of the entire Old Testament. W. H. Be…
3 years, 11 months ago
Jerry Z. Muller, "Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 76
Genius or Charlatan?
This is the story of Jacob Taubes, the controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-centu…
3 years, 11 months ago
Menachem Kaiser, "Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure" (Mariner Books, 2021)
Episode 295
Menachem Kaiser's book Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure (Mariner Books, 2021) is set in motion when the author takes up his Hol…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Future of Religion: A Conversation with Robin Dunbar
Episode 17
Of the many differences between the West and the rest of the world the issue of religiosity is one of the most striking. In the West ever fewer peopl…
3 years, 11 months ago