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...

John reflects on the people who have taught him, in all the different ways teaching can happen, and the lessons that he’s learned over decades of thinking and writing about the Holocaust...

Diamond challenges the widespread caricature of Judaism as a religion of law as opposed to theology...

"Jewish New York" reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Nadell surveys varied experiences of Jewish women who made America their home. In elegant prose, she introduces readers to a fascinating cast of characters from the seventeenth century to the present day...

Cook shows that there is a deep religious strain within the American Left despite contrary common perceptions...

Bemporad examines the uneasy and often ambivalent but mutually dependent, and ever-shifting relationship between the regime and the Jewish population as the Soviet century unfolds...

In recent decades, scholarship has turned to the role of gender in the Holocaust, but rarely has it critically investigated the experiences of men as gendered beings..

Yadgar provides a novel analysis of the interplay between Israeli nationalism and Jewish tradition, arriving at a fresh understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through its focus on internal questions about Israeli identity...

The life of Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) was as puzzling as it was brief...

McGeever examines Bolshevik and Jewish communists' attempts to confront antisemitism, including within the revolutionary movement itself...

What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

The myth of Jews killing Christian children emerged in 1144 CE, with the death of a boy named William in Norwich, England...

Marinari examines how, from 1882 to 1965, Italian and Jewish reformers profoundly influenced the country’s immigration policy as they mobilized against the immigration laws that marked them as undesirable...

Paul Celan's poetry marks the end of European modernism..

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Fischbach examines the way that a host of groups on the American found themselves divided over which country they ought to support and how to fit that support into campaigns against imperialism or U.S. foreign policy...

Without question the Gospel of John makes rich use of both the Jewish scriptures and the feasts of the Jewish liturgical year...

Sinkoff offers s the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called "Holocaust Studies"..

Art Spiegelman's Maus is the story of an American cartoonist's efforts to uncover and record his father's story of survival of the Holocaust...

On November 9, 1938, the Nazis launched a pogrom against German Jews...Kristallnacht.

Stein weaves a narrative tapestry whose threads are drawn from the archives of one Sephardic family, with roots in the city of Salonica, then in the Ottoman Empire, now Thessaloniki in Greece...

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