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Episode 107
In this special follow-up episode in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I again speak with Rich Brownstein, author of Holocaust Cinema…
4 years, 4 months ago
Samuel J. Spinner, "Jewish Primitivism" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Episode 119
Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and artists across Europe began depicting fellow Jews as savages or "primitive" tribesm…
4 years, 4 months ago
Andrew Porwancher, "The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 264
In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton (Princeton UP, 2021), Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father…
4 years, 4 months ago
Karen Rostoger-Gruber, "The Family (and Frog! ) Haggadah" (Behrman House, 2017)
Episode 20
I talked with Karen Rostoger-Gruber and her sidekick, Maria (Karen is a ventriloquist) on her career and writing process and celebrated her Passover …
4 years, 4 months ago
Jason Lustig, "A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 263
How do people link the past to the present, marking continuity in the face of the fundamental discontinuities of history? A Time to Gather: Archives …
4 years, 4 months ago
Yakir Englander, "The Male Body in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Theology" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
Episode 260
How does Ultra-Orthodox Jewish literature describe the male body? What does the body represent? What is the ideal male body? In The Male Body in Ultr…
4 years, 4 months ago
Marc Caplan, "Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Episode 119
In Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism (Indiana UP, 2021), Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European …
4 years, 4 months ago
Anat Plocker, "The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland: Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Episode 146
In The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland: Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties (Indiana University Press, 2022), Anat Plocker examines the campai…
4 years, 4 months ago
Gideon Sapir and Daniel Statman, "State and Religion in Israel: A Philosophical-Legal Inquiry" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 66
Mahatma Gandhi said, “Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.”
The relationship between religion and state p…
4 years, 4 months ago
Melissa Stoller, "Sadie’s Shabbat Stories" (Spork, 2020)
Episode 11
Today I talked to Melissa Stoller about her book Sadie’s Shabbat Stories (Spork, 2020). Sadie loves listening to Nana's tales, especially about the t…
4 years, 4 months ago