New Books in Jewish Studies
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1026
Elissa Bemporad, "Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogrom...
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...
56 min
1027
Yaacov Yadgar, "Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis...
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...
53 min
1028
Derek Penslar, "Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic ...
The life of Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) was as puzzling as it was brief...
49 min
1029
Brendan McGeever, "Antisemitism and the Russian...
McGeever examines Bolshevik and Jewish communists' attempts to confront antisemitism, including within the revolutionary movement itself...
47 min
1030
Ayala Fader, "Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in ...
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?
90 min
1031
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
1032
Magda Teter, "Blood Libel: On the Trail of an A...
The myth of Jews killing Christian children emerged in 1144 CE, with the death of a boy named William in Norwich, England...
63 min
1033
Maddalena Marinari, "Unwanted: Italian and Jewi...
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...
34 min
1034
Great Books: Amir Eshel on Paul Celan's Poetry
Paul Celan's poetry marks the end of European modernism..
55 min
1035
Michael Fischbach, "The Movement and the Middle...
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...
45 min
1036
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
1037
Michael Daise, "Quotations in John: Studies on ...
Without question the Gospel of John makes rich use of both the Jewish scriptures and the feasts of the Jewish liturgical year...
46 min
1038
Nancy Sinkoff, "From Left to Right: Lucy S. Daw...
Sinkoff offers s the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called "Holocaust Studies"..
56 min
1039
Great Books: Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's ...
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...
57 min
1040
Steven Ross and Wolf Gruner, "New Perspectives ...
On November 9, 1938, the Nazis launched a pogrom against German Jews...Kristallnacht.
58 min
1041
Sarah Abrevaya Stein, "A Sephardic Journey Thro...
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...
47 min
1042
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
1043
Jaap Doedens, "The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1-4...
Who were the ‘sons of God’ in the book of Genesis—and what did they do?
22 min
1044
L. Benjamin Rolsky, "The Rise and Fall of the R...
Rolsky makes the case for understanding Norman Lear as a key protagonist in the culture wars of the late 20th century...
59 min
1045
Randal Schnoor, "Jewish Family: Identity and Se...
Pomson and Schnoor examine the impact of the family on Jewish identity.
57 min
1046
Nicholas Blincoe, "More Noble Than War: A Socce...
Blincoe offers a beautifully narrated and written history of a century of conflict between pre-state Jews and Palestinians and Israeli Jews and Israeli Palestinians after the establishment of the state...
59 min
1047
Ayelet Hoffmann Libson, "Law and Self-Knowledge...
Libson examines the emergence of self-knowledge as a determining legal consideration among the rabbis of Late Antiquity, from the third to the seventh centuries CE.
47 min
1048
Bari Weiss, "How to Fight Anti-Semitism" (Crown...
Anti-semitism is on the rise in the U.S. and other parts of the world...
30 min
1049
Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in...
The book argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence...
39 min
1050
Peter Bergamin, "The Making of the Israeli Far-...
Bergamin positions Ahimeir within the contexts of the Israeli right and the Zionist movement in general, and corrects some common misunderstandings surrounding the man and his ideology...
34 min