New Books in Jewish Studies
Interview with Scholars of Judaism about their New Books
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- Update frequency
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- Episodes
- 1339
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
Kei Hiruta, "Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Two of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) fundamentally disagreed on central issues in politics, history and philosophy. In spi…
00:47:02 |
Mon 28 Feb 2022
Erica Brown, "Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile" (Maggid, 2020)
The Biblical Book of Esther reads like a classic fable, a drama of actors who are recognizable archetypes. There is Esther, the beautiful orphan who becomes queen, Ahasuerus, the buffoon king, Haman,…
00:44:29 |
Fri 25 Feb 2022
Joanna Sliwa, "Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust (Rutgers UP, 2021) is the first book to tell the history of Kraków in the second World War through the lens of Jewish children's experience…
01:22:35 |
Fri 25 Feb 2022
Jon Butler, "God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan" (Harvard UP, 2020)
In Gilded Age Manhattan, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant leaders agonized over the fate of traditional religious practice amid chaotic and multiplying pluralism. Massive immigration, the anonymity o…
01:00:04 |
Thu 24 Feb 2022
Allison Schachter, "Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
In Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939 (Northwestern UP, 2021), Allison Schachter rewrites Jewish literary modernity from the point of view of women. Focusing on works by interwar Hebrew and Yi…
00:53:46 |
Thu 24 Feb 2022
Haim Jachter, "Bridging Traditions: Demystifying Differences Between Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews" (Maggid, 2022)
As the rabbi of a Sephardic synagogue for over twenty years who is himself of Ashkenazic descent and trained in Ashkenazic yeshivot, Rabbi Haim Jachter has a unique vantage point from which to observ…
00:25:39 |
Thu 24 Feb 2022
Exploring Autonomy: A History of Jewish Self-Governance in Eastern Europe
The emergence of self-government in the Jewish community in Eastern Europe has been a slow process, often encouraged by invitations of existing regimes and sometimes to escape state persecution. None…
00:20:21 |
Wed 23 Feb 2022
Catherine Ehrlich, "Irma's Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage" (She Writes Press, 2021)
In Irma's Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage (She Writes Press, 2021), Catherine Ehrlich explores her Austrian grandparents’ influential lives at the crossroads of German an…
00:53:37 |
Mon 21 Feb 2022
Markus Zehnder, "The Bible and Immigration: A Critical and Empirical Reassessment" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
Questions relating to immigration are among the most heated topics on both sides of the Atlantic. Western societies have changed dramatically because of large-scale immigration in the last decades. C…
00:56:09 |
Thu 17 Feb 2022
Michael Marmur and David Ellenson, "American Jewish Thought Since 1934: Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief" (Brandeis UP, 2020)
Mordecai Kaplan’s Judaism as a Civilization was first published in 1934. The editors of American Jewish Thought Since 1934: Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief (Brandeis UP, 2020), a collect…
00:47:41 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
Manoela Carpenedo, "Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus: Judaizing Evangelicals in Brazil" (Oxford UP, 2021)
An unexpected fusion of two major western religious traditions, Judaism and Christianity, has been developing in many parts of the world. Contemporary Christian movements are not only adopting Jewish…
01:05:04 |
Tue 15 Feb 2022
Federica Francesconi, "Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
In her recent book on the Jewish community of Modena in Italy, Federica Francesconi tells a tale of contradictions. Segregated to the city’s ghetto in the 17th century, the Jewish merchants of the ci…
00:49:42 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
Yakov Nagen, "Be, Become, Bless: Jewish Spirituality Between East and West" (Maggid, 2019)
Be, Become, Bless: Jewish Spirituality Between East and West (Maggid, 2019) presents a Jewish approach to transforming the way we see and live our lives. Join us as we speak with Rabbi Yakov Nagen ab…
00:29:45 |
Wed 09 Feb 2022
Patrick Hicks, "In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program" (Stephen F. Austin UP, 2020)
In the Shadow of Dora by Patrick Hicks (Stephen F. Austin University Press 2020) explores the space program’s path from the Dora Mittelbau concentration camp in 1940’s Nazi Germany, to the Apollo 11 …
00:23:23 |
Tue 08 Feb 2022
Ola Hnatiuk, "Courage and Fear" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2019)
Lemberg, Lwów, Lvov, Lviv… The city, which is located in the western part of Ukraine, evokes a highly entangled past that contains references to a number of nations, ethnicities, empires, states, and…
01:01:00 |
Tue 08 Feb 2022
Susan Gilson Miller, "Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2021)
When France fell to Hitler's armies in June 1940, a flood of refugees fleeing Nazi terror quickly overwhelmed Europe's borders and spilled across the Mediterranean to North Africa, touching off a hum…
01:18:06 |
Thu 03 Feb 2022
Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers, "American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities in the United …
01:01:18 |
Tue 01 Feb 2022
Rich Brownstein, "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" (McFarland, 2021)
Holocaust movies have become an important segment of world cinema and the de-facto Holocaust education for many. One quarter of all American-produced Holocaust-related feature films have won or been …
00:45:01 |
Tue 01 Feb 2022
Mir Yarfitz, "Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina (Rutgers UP, 2019) investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina and the i…
01:10:20 |
Fri 28 Jan 2022
The 15 Best Films about the Holocaust
In this special follow-up episode in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I again speak with Rich Brownstein, author of Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, wi…
01:11:14 |
Thu 27 Jan 2022
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