Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Other Goldene Medina: The History of South African Jewry
Milton Shain, emeritus professor of history at the University of Cape Town, specializing in the history of Jews and anti-Semitism in South Africa, te…
8 years, 1 month ago
Moral Equivalency of Hate
What does radical Islam have in common with right wing extremism? Much, it turns out. From the perception of existential, apocalyptic threat to the s…
8 years, 2 months ago
The Prince: The Emergence of Elites in Early 20th-Century Saudi Arabia
In our minds, Saudi Arabia, to this day, has been an ultraconservative, almost medieval society, with a clear hierarchy and a coercive leadership. Bu…
8 years, 2 months ago
Malka Marom's Great Canadian Songbook: Joni, Leonard and I
When Malka Marom, a Canadian-Israeli musician and broadcaster, walked into a destitute Toronto night club in 1966, she was swept off her feet. The mu…
8 years, 2 months ago
The Myth of the Cultural Jew
Prof. Roberta Ronsethal Kwall, a legal scholar and the founding director of the DePaul University College of Law, has just authored a new book entitl…
8 years, 2 months ago
Israel and Hezbollah Get MAD
If another war breaks out between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, it could "turn Lebanon into a car park," and take down wholesale targets in Tel Av…
8 years, 2 months ago
How Jews in the Jim Crow South Labored to be White
Dr. Caroline Light of the Program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University talks with host Gilad Halpern about her recent book, T…
8 years, 2 months ago
Pride and Prejudice: The State of Israeli Democracy at 70
Yohanan Plesner, the president of the Israel Democracy Institute, joins us to discuss the past accomplishments and future challenges of democracy in …
8 years, 2 months ago
Protecting Jews in Interwar Europe: How International Law Tried and Failed
Prof. Carole Fink, a scholar specializing in international European history at Ohio State University in the US, tells host Gilad Halpern about how Eu…
8 years, 2 months ago
Imagined Religion: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Judaism
Daniel Boyarin, Professor of Talmudic Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses his forthcoming book "Judaism: The Genealogy of a…
8 years, 2 months ago