New Books in Jewish Studies

Interview with Scholars of Judaism about their New Books

Religion & Spirituality
Judaism
876
Sarit Kattan Gribetz, "Time and Difference in R...
An interview with Sarit Kattan Gribetz
66 min
877
Kathryn Ciancia, "On Civilization's Edge: A Pol...
An interview with Kathryn Ciancia
57 min
878
Michael E. Pregill, "The Golden Calf Between Bi...
An interview with Michael E. Pregill
60 min
879
Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann, "Spain, the...
An interview with Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann
61 min
880
David Nasaw, "The Last Million: Europe's Displa...
An interview with David Nasaw
55 min
881
L. Hilton and A. Patt, "Understanding and Teach...
An interview with Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt
68 min
882
Anne Goldman, "Stargazing in the Atomic Age" (...
Interview with Anne Goldman
56 min
883
Carol Rittner and John K. Roth, "Advancing Holo...
An interview with Carol Rittner and John K. Roth
68 min
884
Roy E. Gane, "Exploring the Composition of the ...
An interview with Roy E. Gane
37 min
885
Marina Rustow, "The Lost Archive: Traces of a C...
An interview with Marina Rustow
74 min
886
Adina Hoffman, "Till We Have Built Jerusalem: A...
An interview with Adina Hoffman
51 min
887
Shaul Magid, "Piety and Rebellion: Essays in Ha...
An interview with Shaul Magid
51 min
888
Anna Hájková, "The Last Ghetto: An Everyday His...
An interview with Anna Hájková
53 min
889
Michal S. Raucher, "Conceiving Agency: Reproduc...
Raucher explores the ways ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel make decisions about their reproductive lives...
55 min
890
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
891
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
892
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
893
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
894
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
895
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
896
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
897
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
898
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
899
Karen Taliaferro, "The Possibility of Religious...
Taliaferro argues that natural law can act as a mediating tool...
80 min
900
Jewish Architecture: A Stage for Jewish Liturgy
An interview with Steven Fine
26 min