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Religion & Spirituality
Judaism
1001
Rachel S. Mikva, "Dangerous Religious Ideas: Th...
An interview with Rachel S. Mikva
62 min
1002
I. Stavans and J. Lambert, "How Yiddish Changed...
An interview with Josh Lambert
45 min
1003
Hannah Hahn, "They Left It All Behind: Trauma, ...
An interview with Hannah Hahn
30 min
1004
Naomi Seidman, "Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Ya...
An interview with Naomi Seidman
56 min
1005
Dina Danon, "The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Moder...
Interview with Dina Danon
48 min
1006
Max Gross, "The Lost Shtetl" (HarperCollins, 2020)
An interview with Max Gross
28 min
1007
Charles Hirschkind, "The Feeling of History: Is...
An interview with Charles Hirschkind
87 min
1008
Gennady Estraikh, "Transatlantic Russian Jewish...
Interview with Gennady Estraikh
61 min
1009
Sarit Kattan Gribetz, "Time and Difference in R...
An interview with Sarit Kattan Gribetz
66 min
1010
Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann, "Spain, the...
An interview with Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann
61 min
1011
Kathryn Ciancia, "On Civilization's Edge: A Pol...
An interview with Kathryn Ciancia
57 min
1012
Michael E. Pregill, "The Golden Calf Between Bi...
An interview with Michael E. Pregill
60 min
1013
David Nasaw, "The Last Million: Europe's Displa...
An interview with David Nasaw
55 min
1014
Anne Goldman, "Stargazing in the Atomic Age" (...
Interview with Anne Goldman
56 min
1015
L. Hilton and A. Patt, "Understanding and Teach...
An interview with Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt
68 min
1016
Carol Rittner and John K. Roth, "Advancing Holo...
An interview with Carol Rittner and John K. Roth
68 min
1017
Roy E. Gane, "Exploring the Composition of the ...
An interview with Roy E. Gane
37 min
1018
Marina Rustow, "The Lost Archive: Traces of a C...
An interview with Marina Rustow
74 min
1019
Adina Hoffman, "Till We Have Built Jerusalem: A...
An interview with Adina Hoffman
51 min
1020
Shaul Magid, "Piety and Rebellion: Essays in Ha...
An interview with Shaul Magid
51 min
1021
Anna Hájková, "The Last Ghetto: An Everyday His...
An interview with Anna Hájková
53 min
1022
Michal S. Raucher, "Conceiving Agency: Reproduc...
Raucher explores the ways ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel make decisions about their reproductive lives...
55 min
1023
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
1024
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
1025
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