New Books in Jewish Studies
Interview with Scholars of Judaism about their New Books
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 1339
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
Yehoshua November, "Two Worlds Exist" (Orison Books, 2016)
Yehoshua November's second poetry collection, Two Worlds Exist (Orison Books), movingly examines the harmonies and dissonances involved in practicing an ancient religious tradition in contemporary Am…
00:56:01 |
Fri 04 Sep 2020
Rafael Medoff, "The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust" (JPS, 2019)
Like so many Americans, American Jews supported President Roosevelt. They adored him. They believed in him. They idolized him.
Perhaps they shouldn’t have.
Based on recently discovered documents, The…
01:00:49 |
Mon 31 Aug 2020
Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
In her new book, The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy (Belknap Press), Dr. Victoria de Grazia takes the story of Attilio Teruzzi and explores the social hist…
01:04:20 |
Mon 31 Aug 2020
John Barton, "A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book" (Viking, 2019)
John Barton is no stranger to Holy Scripture. Having spent much of his academic career as a chaplain and professor of theology at the University of Oxford, his latest book is an attempt to shed light…
01:02:16 |
Mon 31 Aug 2020
Adam Teller, "Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the 17th Century" (Princeton UP, 2020)
A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of thousands of Jews fled their homes, or were captured and tr…
01:15:10 |
Tue 25 Aug 2020
Natan M. Meir, "Stepchildren of the Shtetl" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars, madmen and madwomen, disabled people, and poor orphans. Stepchildren of the Sh…
00:56:14 |
Wed 19 Aug 2020
Alice Connor, "Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation" (Fortress, 2017)
Women in the Bible aren't shy or retiring; they're fierce and funny and demanding and relevant to 21st-century people. Women in the Bible—some of their names we know, others we’ve only heard, and oth…
01:18:17 |
Fri 14 Aug 2020
Marion Kaplan, "Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal" (Yale UP, 2020)
Marion Kaplan's riveting book, Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal (Yale University Press) describes the dramatic experiences of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler’s regime and th…
00:51:51 |
Fri 14 Aug 2020
Richard Breitman, "The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies"(Oxford Academic/USHMM)
The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies is turning twenty-five. One of the first academic journals focused on the study of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies, it has been one of a few journals …
00:45:46 |
Fri 07 Aug 2020
Paula Fredriksen, "When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation" (Yale UP, 2018)
How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would gr…
01:05:39 |
Fri 31 Jul 2020
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 8: A Very Difficult Man to Kill
Following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March of 1938, Robert Eisler wrote to Oxford asking about being appointed to the Wilde Readership in Comparative and Natural Religion, thereby g…
00:42:47 |
Tue 28 Jul 2020
Shneur Zalman Newfield, "Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism" (Temple UP, 2020)
Those who exit a religion—particularly one they were born and raised in—often find themselves at sea in their efforts to transition to life beyond their community. In Degrees of Separation: Identity …
01:04:40 |
Wed 22 Jul 2020
Adam Brown, "Judging 'Privileged' Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'" (Berghahn, 2015)
The Nazis’ persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to ho…
01:10:57 |
Thu 02 Jul 2020
Yitzhak Lewis, "Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity" (SUNY Press, 2020)
The Hasidic leader R. Nachman of Braslav (1772–1810) has held a place in the Jewish popular imagination for more than two centuries. Some see him as the (self-proclaimed) Messiah, others as the forer…
00:55:09 |
Mon 29 Jun 2020
Mara Benjamin, "The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought" (Indiana UP, 2018)
In this talk, Rachel Adelman engages Mara Benjamin in a conversation about her most recent book, The Obligated Self—Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought (Indiana University Press, 2018). Benjamin…
01:17:25 |
Thu 25 Jun 2020
David Slucki et al., "Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
In Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press, 2020), Co-editors David Slucki, Loti Smorgon Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture at the Australian Ce…
01:12:15 |
Mon 22 Jun 2020
Gabriel Finder, "Justice behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
When Americans think about trials of Holocaust perpetrators, they generally think of the Nuremberg Trials or the trial of Adolf Eichmann or perhaps of the Frankfort trials of perpetrators from Auschw…
01:23:19 |
Mon 22 Jun 2020
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 2: Value Theory
In this episode (# 2), we discuss Eisler’s early years as a member of the Jewish bourgeoisie in turn-of-the-century Vienna with historian Steven Beller. We also hear from the closest living relative …
00:51:52 |
Tue 16 Jun 2020
John K. Roth, "Sources of Holocaust Insight: Learning and Teaching about the Genocide" (Cascade Books, 2020)
At Newman I co-teach a class titled "The Holocaust and its Legacies." I teach the course with a Professor of Theology and it's designed to help students understand the ways in which the Holocaust sha…
01:15:05 |
Mon 15 Jun 2020
James A. Diamond, "Jewish Theology Unbound" (Oxford UP, 2018)
James A. Diamond discusses his new book, Jewish Theology Unbound (Oxford University Press, 2018), with Rachel Adelman. This book challenges the widespread caricature of Judaism as a religion of law a…
01:05:23 |
Thu 11 Jun 2020
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