Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMichael Geheran, "Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Episode 147
What claims could Jewish veterans make on the Nazi state by virtue of their having fought for Germany? How often did Germans treat Jewish veterans di…
4 years, 8 months ago
Kristin Swenson, "A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 158
The Bible is not only a book but also a collection of books. It has many authors but also at the same time many editors. It has not only been transla…
4 years, 8 months ago
Rachel Rojanski, "Yiddish in Israel: A History" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Episode 31
Yiddish in Israel: A History (Indiana UP, 2020) challenges the commonly held view that Yiddish was suppressed or even banned by Israeli authorities f…
4 years, 8 months ago
Emmanuel Navon, "The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
Episode 58
The first all-encompassing book on Israel’s foreign policy and the diplomatic history of the Jewish people, The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic Hi…
4 years, 8 months ago
Shlomit Naim Naor, "The Things We Are Not Talking About" (2020)
Episode 107
Shlomit Naim Naor’s poetry is a unique voice in Israel. She is inviting the readers to delve deeper and engage in a dialogue with the Jewish religion…
4 years, 8 months ago
Ori Yehudai, "Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 30
Ori Yehudai's erudite examination of Jewish emigration from Israel in the early years of the state presents a fascinating study of the lived experien…
4 years, 8 months ago
Sarah Bunin Benor et al., "Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Episode 240
Each summer, tens of thousands of American Jews attend residential camps, where they may see Hebrew signs, sing and dance to Hebrew songs, and hear a…
4 years, 9 months ago
A. J. Culp, "Memoir of Moses: The Literary Creation of Covenantal Memory in Deuteronomy" (Fortress, 2019)
Episode 80
Memory plays a central role in the book of Deuteronomy, meant to shape Israel’s life as a nation in the land. In Memoir of Moses: The Literary Creati…
4 years, 9 months ago
Danny Adeno Abebe, "From Africa To Zion" (Miskal, 2021)
Episode 56
In 1984, in an unprecedented act of brotherhood, Israel airlifted thousands of persecuted and starving Ethiopian Jews from Africa to Israel. They had…
4 years, 9 months ago
Hélène Jawhara Piñer, "Sephardi: Cooking the History. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Diaspora, from the 13th Century Onwards" (Cherry Orchard, 2021)
Episode 28
Helene Jowhara-Piner has produced a masterpiece of culinary history. Sephardi: Cooking the History. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Diaspora, fr…
4 years, 9 months ago