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Back to SearchStephanie M. Pridgeon, "Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Episode 259
Stephanie M. Pridgeon's book Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film (U Toronto Press, 2020) examines recent cinematic…
4 years, 5 months ago
Rich Brownstein, "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" (McFarland, 2021)
Episode 102
Holocaust movies have become an important segment of world cinema and the de-facto Holocaust education for many. One quarter of all American-produced…
4 years, 5 months ago
Noam Sachs Zion, "Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy" (Jewish Publication Society, 2021)
Episode 258
Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy (Jewish Publication Society, 2021) draws on two thousand years of rabbinic de…
4 years, 5 months ago
Ann Koffsky, "Kayla and Kugel's Happy Hanhukkah" (Apples and Honey Press, 2020)
Episode 1
Our current podcast features the picture book Kayla and Kugel's Happy Hanhukkah (Apples and Honey Press, 2020). The author, Ann Koffsky is the author…
4 years, 5 months ago
Beate Kowalski and Susan E. Docherty, "The Reception of Exodus Motifs in Jewish and Christian Literature: "Let My People Go!" (Brill, 2021)
Episode 85
The account of the exodus of Israel out of Egypt led by Moses has shaped the theology and community identity of both Jewish people and Christians acr…
4 years, 5 months ago
Marcia Pally, "From This Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 133
Leonard Cohen's troubled relationship with God is here mapped onto his troubled relationships with sex and politics. Analysing Covenantal theology an…
4 years, 5 months ago
Izabela Wagner, "Bauman: A Biography" (Polity, 2020)
Episode 143
Global thinker, public intellectual, and world-famous theorist of ‘liquid modernity’, Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced mi…
4 years, 5 months ago
Julian E. Zelizer, "Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement" (Yale UP, 2021)
Episode 63
“When I marched in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.”
So said Polish-born American rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) of his involvement in th…
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"Bambi" isn't about what you think it's about: Jack Zipes explains
Episode 20
Most of us think we know the story of Bambi—but do we? The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest (Princeton UP, 2022) is an all-new, illu…
4 years, 5 months ago
Jonathan Sacks, "The Koren Standard Tanakh Maalot" (Koren, 2021)
Episode 256
A decade in development, the new KOREN TANAKH offers an eloquent, faithful, and masterful translation of the Torah, Prophets, and Writings with the r…
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