New Books in Jewish Studies
Interview with Scholars of Judaism about their New Books
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- Episodes
- 1339
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
Daniel Herskowitz, "Heidegger and His Jewish Reception" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
In this episode, I interview Daniel Herskowitz, Career Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, about his first book, Heidegger and His Jewish Reception (Cambridge University Press, …
01:08:51 |
Wed 28 Apr 2021
Thomas Robinson and Hillary Rodrigues, "World Religions Reader: Understanding Our Religious World" (ROBINEST, 2020)
Preparing online materials since 2005 (including Hindusim the EBook, 2016), Dr. Hillary Rodrigues has been working on a fantastic resource for anyone interested in studying or teaching world religion…
00:41:19 |
Fri 23 Apr 2021
Massoud Hayoun, "When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History" (New Press, 2019)
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History (New Press, 2019) is part-memoir, part-history of Jewish Arabs. We follow Massoud Hayoun as he documents his family’s history, their place in t…
01:12:10 |
Wed 21 Apr 2021
Rachel B. Gross, "Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice" (NYU Press, 2021)
In 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue originally built by some of the first Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York City. Visitor…
01:01:58 |
Mon 19 Apr 2021
Sheila E. Jelen, "Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies" (Wayne State UP, 2020
In Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies (Wayne State University Press, 2020), Sheila Jelen explores how American Jewish post-Holocaust writers, scholars, and editors ada…
01:08:59 |
Mon 12 Apr 2021
Cedric Cohen-Skalli, "Don Isaac Abravanel: An Intellectual Biography" (Brandeis UP, 2020)
Don Isaac Abravanel (1437–1508) was an important forerunner of Jewish modernity. A merchant, banker, and court financier; a scholar versed in both Jewish and Christian writings; a preacher and exeget…
01:36:35 |
Fri 09 Apr 2021
Dina Porat, "Vengeance and Retribution Are Mine: Community, the Holocaust, and Abba Kovner's Avengers" (Pardes, 2019)
Vengeance and Retribution Are Mine: Community, the Holocaust, and Abba Kovner's Avengers (Pardes, 2019) is a book by Israeli historian Dina Porat on Nakam, a small group of Holocaust survivors led by…
01:02:19 |
Tue 06 Apr 2021
Roundtable on Medieval Conspiracy Theories
Join us today for a roundtable conversation with three leading medieval scholars about the phenomenon of conspiracy theories in history.
Michael T. Bailey, professor of history at Iowa State Univers…
01:06:03 |
Wed 31 Mar 2021
Jeffrey Shandler, "Yiddish: Biography of a Language" (Oxford UP, 2020)
The most widely spoken Jewish language on the eve of the Holocaust, Yiddish continues to play a significant role in Jewish life today, from Hasidim for whom it is a language of daily life to avant-ga…
01:03:10 |
Mon 22 Mar 2021
Joshua Cole, "Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Joshua Cole's Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria (Cornell University Press, 2019) appeals to a few of the different readers in my head: the one who admires…
01:02:45 |
Wed 17 Mar 2021
Jennifer Anne Moses, "The Man Who Loved His Wife" (Mayapple Press, 2021)
In The Man Who Loved His Wife (Mayapple Press, 2021), Jennifer Anne Moses creates characters who grapple with the minutiae of their lives while considering family, fate, love, death, the afterlife, t…
00:32:05 |
Tue 09 Mar 2021
Richard Kalmin, "Migrating Tales: The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context" (U California Press, 2014)
Migrating Tales: The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context (University of California Press, 2014) situates the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, in its cultural context by reading several rich …
00:49:41 |
Fri 05 Mar 2021
Miriam Udel, "Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature" (NYU Press, 2020)
While there has been a recent boom in Jewish literacy and learning within the US, few resources exist to enable American Jews to experience the rich primary sources of Yiddish culture. Stepping into …
00:52:39 |
Thu 04 Mar 2021
David Stavrou, "Leaving Zion: The Israeli Diaspora in Europe" (Pardes, 2019)
The meaning of being an immigrant has changed significantly in the 21st century. The internet, social media and networks, cost of travels, homeland products of food that one can find all over the wor…
01:00:59 |
Tue 02 Mar 2021
Rachel S. Mikva, "Dangerous Religious Ideas: The Deep Roots of Self-Critical Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam" (Beacon, 2020)
Dangerous Religious Ideas: The Deep Roots of Self-Critical Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Beacon, 2020) reveals how faith traditions have always passed down tools for self-examination and…
01:05:26 |
Fri 26 Feb 2021
I. Stavans and J. Lambert, "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish" (Restless Books, 2020)
Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how h…
00:48:03 |
Tue 23 Feb 2021
Naomi Seidman, "Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition" (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2019)
Sarah Schenirer is one of the unsung heroes of twentieth-century Orthodox Judaism. In Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition (Littman Library of Jewish Ci…
00:59:08 |
Fri 19 Feb 2021
Hannah Hahn, "They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss, and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and their Children" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
Hannah Hahn’s They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and Their Children (Roman and Littlefield, 2020) explores the impact of conflict, social change…
00:32:47 |
Fri 19 Feb 2021
Dina Danon, "The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Across Europe, Jews were often confronted with the notion that their religious and cultural distinctiveness was somehow incompatible with the modern age. Yet the view from Ottoman Izmir invites a dif…
00:50:54 |
Thu 18 Feb 2021
Max Gross, "The Lost Shtetl" (HarperCollins, 2020)
Today I spoke with Max Gross about his book The Lost Shtetl (HarperCollins, 2020). Imagine a Jewish village hidden in the forests of Poland that somehow escapes the Holocaust. Eighty years later, a y…
00:28:37 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
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