New Books in Jewish Studies
Interview with Scholars of Judaism about their New Books
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- Update frequency
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- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 1339
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
Shaul Bartal and Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer, "Hamas and Ideology: Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qara?awi on the Jews, Zionism and Israel" (Routledge, 2017)
Sheikh Yusūf al- Qaraḍāwī is regarded as the most influential contemporary Muslim religious figure. His best-selling book, Al-Ḥalal wal-Ḥaram fi al-Islam ("The Forbidden and the Permitted in Islam") …
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Sun 04 Dec 2022
Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
The Sassoons were one of the great merchant families of the nineteenth century, alongside such names as the Jardines, the Mathesons, and the Swires. They dominated the India-China opium trade through…
00:43:28 |
Thu 01 Dec 2022
James Yansen, "Daughter Zion's Trauma: A Trauma Informed Reading of Lamentations" (Gorgias Press, 2019)
Utilizing insights from trauma studies, James Yansen's book Daughter Zion's Trauma: A Trauma Informed Reading of Lamentations (Gorgias Press, 2019) advances the view that awareness of trauma's potent…
02:44:12 |
Wed 30 Nov 2022
Jonathan Rosen and Henry Herz, "Coming of Age: 13 B'nai Mitvah Stories" (Albert Whitman & Company, 2022)
In our exciting conversation with author-agent Jonathan Rosen we talk about his recent anthology, Coming of Age: 13 B'nai Mitvah Stories (Albert Whitman & Company, 2022), his funny and scary middle g…
00:46:45 |
Mon 28 Nov 2022
The Future of Religious Studies: A Conversation with Russell McCutcheon
Russell McCutcheon shares his views on the academic study of religion, and the path ahead for religion graduates and the field itself. McCutcheon is a professor of religious studies at the University…
01:12:52 |
Mon 28 Nov 2022
Moshe Koppel, "Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures" (Maggid, 2020)
In Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures (Maggid, 2020), Moshe Koppel explores the central differences between traditional societies - including traditional Judaism - and contemporary cosmop…
00:47:44 |
Fri 25 Nov 2022
Joseph McBride, "Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films―including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment―Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's great…
01:26:11 |
Thu 24 Nov 2022
Eli Gumener, "A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir Of Sorrow" (Slavica, 2022)
Today I talked to Michael Eli Nutkiewicz about his translation A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir Of Sorrow (Slavica, 2022).
Eli Gumener’s 1921 Yiddish memoir, A Ukrainian Chapter, is…
02:01:46 |
Wed 23 Nov 2022
Books, Antisemitism, and a Viral Tweet: A Conversation with Library Director Susan Kusel
Need help curating a list of Holocaust books for your students or library patrons? What’s on your shelf? What should be there? This podcast episode explores:
The most commonly assigned Holocaust boo…
01:00:59 |
Tue 22 Nov 2022
Samuel J. Levine, "Was Yosef on the Spectrum?: Understanding Joseph Through Torah, Midrash, and Classical Jewish Sources" (Urim Publications, 2018)
Samuel J. Levine's Was Yosef on the Spectrum?: Understanding Joseph Through Torah, Midrash, and Classical Jewish Sources (Urim Publications, 2018) offers a coherent and cohesive reading of the well-k…
01:03:03 |
Fri 18 Nov 2022
Boruch Twersky, "From Moav to Mashiach" (Menucha Publishers, 2022)
Elimelech’s family living in Moab, the conversion of Ruth, and Boaz’s efforts to establish his permission for marrying Ruth despite her Moabite roots, these were all important links in the chain that…
00:16:23 |
Fri 18 Nov 2022
Michael Frank, "One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
With nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her Greenwich Village apartment one Saturday afternoon t…
00:59:03 |
Thu 17 Nov 2022
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)
The scholarship of theology and religion teaches us that the God of the Bible was without a body, only revealing himself in the Old Testament in words mysteriously uttered through his prophets, and i…
00:44:50 |
Mon 14 Nov 2022
Ephraim (Alexander) Kholmyansky, "The Voice of Silence: The Story of the Jewish Underground in the USSR" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
The Ephraim (Alexander) Kholmyansky's book The Voice of Silence: The Story of the Jewish Underground in the USSR (Academic Studies Press, 2021) is the personal story of an underground Hebrew teacher …
01:49:25 |
Thu 10 Nov 2022
J. Richard Middleton, "Abraham's Silence: The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God" (Baker Academic, 2021)
It is traditional to think we should praise Abraham for his willingness to sacrifice his son as proof of his love for God. But have we misread the point of the story? Is it possible that a careful re…
00:59:01 |
Wed 09 Nov 2022
Sarah Ifft Decker, "The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities" (Pennsylvania State, 2022)
In the thriving urban economies of late thirteenth-century Catalonia, Jewish and Christian women labored to support their families and their communities. The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian …
00:43:00 |
Mon 07 Nov 2022
Alan Verskin, "A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide--a Translation of Hayyim Habshush's Travelogue" (Stanford UP, 2019)
In 1869, Hayyim Habshush, a Yemeni Jew, accompanied the European orientalist Joseph Halévy on his archaeological tour of Yemen. Twenty years later, Habshush wrote A Vision of Yemen a memoir of their …
01:02:21 |
Mon 31 Oct 2022
John Jeffries Martin, "A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2022)
Professor Martin’s A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World (Yale, 2022) is a survey of Early Modern European history from the Age of Discovery to the French…
00:57:04 |
Thu 27 Oct 2022
Rachel Aumiller, "A Touch of Doubt: On Haptic Scepticism" (de Gruyter, 2021)
What can we know about ourselves and the world through the sense of touch and what are the epistemic limits of touch? Scepticism claims that there is always something that slips through the epistemol…
01:21:14 |
Thu 27 Oct 2022
Rachel Schreiber, "Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration" (Temple UP, 2021)
During World War II, Elaine Black Yoneda, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, spent eight months in a concentration camp--not in Europe, but in California. She did this voluntarily and in soli…
01:23:47 |
Tue 25 Oct 2022
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