Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMenachem Kellner, "We Are Not Alone: A Maimonidean Theology of the Other" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
Episode 256
Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed addressed Jews of his day who felt challenged by apparent contradictions between Torah and science. We Are Not Alo…
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Sonia Gollance, "It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Episode 255
Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any reader of Pride and Pre…
4 years, 6 months ago
Rani Jaeger, "Abraham the Hebrew Believer: Secularism and Religion in the Work of Avraham Shlonsky (1900-1973)"
Episode 254
How can it be that deeply religious poetry is being written by a committed socialist, literary revolutionary and modernist? How sacredness appears in…
4 years, 6 months ago
Noah Isenberg ed., Shelley Frisch, trans., "Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 29
Before Billy Wilder became the screenwriter and director of iconic films like Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot, he worked as a freelance reporte…
4 years, 6 months ago
Hadassah Lieberman, "Hadassah: An American Story" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
Episode 253
Born in Prague to Holocaust survivors, Hadassah Lieberman and her family immigrated in 1949 to the United States. She went on to earn a BA from Bosto…
4 years, 6 months ago
Grant T. Harward, "Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 137
What motivated conscripted soldiers to fight in the Romanian Army during the Second World War? Why did they obey orders, take risks, and sometimes de…
4 years, 6 months ago
Annegret Oehme, "The Knight Without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations" (Brill, 2021)
Episode 116
This volume explores a core medieval myth, the tale of an Arthurian knight called Wigalois, and the ways it connects the Yiddish-speaking Jews and th…
4 years, 6 months ago
Dana Mack, "All Things That Deserve to Perish: A Novel of Wilhelmine Germany" (2020)
Episode 130
Despite all the attention paid to the two world wars of the twentieth century, not a great deal of historical fiction focuses on the period that prec…
4 years, 6 months ago
Matthew Levering, "Engaging the Doctrine of Israel: A Christian Israelology in Dialogue with Ongoing Judaism" (Cascade Books, 2021)
Episode 83
What does it mean to be the people of God? Is it possible for Jewish and Christian people to engage in fruitful dialogue about their faiths, with int…
4 years, 6 months ago
Anders Persson, "EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
Episode 36
Nearly 50 years since the European Foreign Ministers issued their first declaration on the conflict between Israel and Palestine in 1971, the Europea…
4 years, 6 months ago