L. Hilton and A. Patt, "Understanding and Teach...
An interview with Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt
68 min
852
Anne Goldman, "Stargazing in the Atomic Age" (...
Interview with Anne Goldman
56 min
853
Carol Rittner and John K. Roth, "Advancing Holo...
An interview with Carol Rittner and John K. Roth
68 min
854
Roy E. Gane, "Exploring the Composition of the ...
An interview with Roy E. Gane
37 min
855
Marina Rustow, "The Lost Archive: Traces of a C...
An interview with Marina Rustow
74 min
856
Adina Hoffman, "Till We Have Built Jerusalem: A...
An interview with Adina Hoffman
51 min
857
Shaul Magid, "Piety and Rebellion: Essays in Ha...
An interview with Shaul Magid
51 min
858
Anna Hájková, "The Last Ghetto: An Everyday His...
An interview with Anna Hájková
53 min
859
Michal S. Raucher, "Conceiving Agency: Reproduc...
Raucher explores the ways ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel make decisions about their reproductive lives...
55 min
860
Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel...
Morris describes the ways in which Frankel stood up to the Nazis and what understandings he drew from that experience...
59 min
861
Jonathan Boyarin, "Yeshiva Days: Learning on th...
Boyarin explores the yeshiva's relationship with the neighborhood, the city, and Jewish and American culture more broadly, and brings vividly to life its routines, rituals, and rhythms...
62 min
862
John K. Roth, "The Failures of Ethics: Confront...
Absent the overriding of moral sensibilities, if not the collapse or collaboration of ethical traditions, the Holocaust, genocide, and other mass atrocities could not have happened,,,
65 min
863
M. Wodziński and W. Spallek, "Historical Atlas ...
The Historical Atlas of Hasidism (Princeton UP, 2018) is the first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era’s most vibrant and important mystical movements...
41 min
864
Julius Margolin, "Journey Into the Land of the ...
Julius Margolin was a Polish Jew caught between the twin 1939 invasions of Poland by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. He spent the years 1940-1945 in Soviet labor camps...
58 min
865
V. Nesfield and P. Smith, "The Struggle for Und...
An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels. Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust...
47 min
866
N. Chare and D. Williams, "Testimonies of Resis...
Chare and Williams assemble careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented-by themselves and by others-both during and after the Holocaust.,.,
50 min
867
Rachel Manekin, "The Rebellion of the Daughters...
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, over three hundred young Jewish women from Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) fled their communities and sought refuge in a Kraków convent, where many converted to Catholicism...
50 min
868
Bernice Lerner, "All the Horrors of War: A Jewi...
Lerner describes their lives – one of them her mother, the other one of the people who helped save her – and how they intersected when British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen in April 1945...
42 min
869
Karen Taliaferro, "The Possibility of Religious...
Taliaferro argues that natural law can act as a mediating tool...
80 min
870
Jewish Architecture: A Stage for Jewish Liturgy
An interview with Steven Fine
26 min
871
R. Rosenberg and R. Rubinstein, "Teaching Jewis...
In this interview, Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein (editors), engage our listeners in a conversation about different approaches to teaching Jewish American Literature, complicating what it means to be “American”.
61 min
872
Jeremy Black, "The Holocaust: History and Memor...
The event that is commonly labeled as the ‘Holocaust’, was one of the most horrific of the Twentieth Century. It is also one of the most popularly discussed events of both the past and the current century. And like many popular events it is filled with mis-understandings and mis-interpretations...
31 min
873
Alan Brill, " Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hin...
How do Judaism and Hinduism compare as religions?
34 min
874
Alan L. Mittleman, "Does Judaism Condone Violen...
How did Biblical figures such as Moses and Joshua justify brutal levels of violence against their enemies?
58 min
875
Kenneth Austin, "The Jews and the Reformation" ...
Austin describes the long and complex history of the two traditions, shows how both religions defined themselves in opposition to each other...