Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSamantha Greene Woodruff on Blacklists and being a 'Christmas Tree Jew'
Season 1 Episode 7
The Trade Off is the story of a brilliant and ambitious young woman striving to find her place amid the promise and tumult of 1920s Wall Street.
Bea Abramovitz has a gift for math and numbers, and f…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Yehuda Kurtzer on Grappling with History and Memory
Season 1 Episode 6
The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook, a rich collection of major Jewish ideas from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. With over eighty excerpts from key primary source texts…
Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago
Zibby Owens on the Healing Power of the Written Word
Season 1 Episode 5
On Being Jewish Now is an intimate and hopeful collection of 75 meaningful, smart, funny, sad, emotional, and inspiring essays from today’s authors and advocates about what it means to be Jewish, how…
Published on 9 months ago
Francine Klagsbrun on Embracing and Reshaping Tradition
Season 1 Episode 4
Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, renowned as the founder of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. She later moved…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
Jean Meltzer on ‘Jewitches’ and Jewish Joy
Season 1 Episode 3
In Magical Meet Cute, Faye Kaplan is definitely happy alone. That is, until she finds her town papered with anti-Semitic flyers. Desperate for comfort, Faye drunkenly turns to her pottery. A golem pr…
Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Yael van der Wouden on Rage, Desire, and Magic
Season 1 Episode 2
It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should be—led by routine and discipline. But all is upen…
Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Benjamin Resnick on the Enduring Precariousness of Jewish Life
Season 1 Episode 1
Benjamin Resnick’s debut novel, Next Stop, is a work of speculative fiction that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life through the lens of one family. After a black hole consumes the S…
Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Coming Soon: The Five Books
Season 1
Join us December 3rd! Each episode will feature a candid conversation with a Jewish author about five books that are near and dear to them.
We’ll hear about the books that helped form their identitie…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago