New Books in Jewish Studies
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field.
Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com
Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/
Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork
1076
Jelena Subotić, "Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocau...
Subotić asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled―ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated―throughout Eastern Europe...
46 min
1077
Lyn Julius, "Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish...
Who are the Jews from Arab countries?
38 min
1078
Lior Sternfeld, "Between Iran and Zion: Jewish ...
Sternfeld presents the first systematic study of the rich and variegated history of Jews in twentieth-century Iran...
45 min
1079
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
1080
Claudia Moscovici, "Holocaust Memories: A Surve...
As Holocaust survivors pass away, their legacy of suffering, tenacity and courage could be forgotten. It is up to each generation to commemorate the victims...
28 min
1081
C. Browning, P. Hayes, R. Hilberg, "German Rail...
Raul Hilberg was a giant in the field of Genocide and Holocaust Studies...
49 min
1082
Olga Zilberbourg, "Like Water and Other Stories...
To this generation that includes writers as disparate as Gary Shteyngart and Irina Reyn comes Olga Zilberbourg...
54 min
1083
Daniel Schwartz, "Ghetto: The History of a Word...
The word “ghetto” has taken on different meanings since its coinage in the 16th century...
52 min
1084
David Hayton, "Conservative Revolutionary: The ...
Namier remains famous in academic circles for supposedly declaring that any reference to ideas in political discourse was nothing more than 'flapdoodle'...
75 min
1085
Daniel Reynolds, "Postcards from Auschwitz: Hol...
Millions of tourists visit Holocaust museums and memorials every year.,,
54 min
1086
Carlo Bonomi, "The Cut and the Building of Psyc...
Bonomi tackles what has often remained hidden both in the historical writing about psychoanalysis and in Freud's explicit account of castration...
54 min
1087
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
1088
Samuel Goldman, "God’s Country: Christian Zioni...
Goldman has written a powerfully impressive new book on the long history of the political theology that he describes as “Christian Zionism"...
31 min
1089
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
1090
Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, "Teaching Empathy and R...
Daoudi took a group of Palestinian students to visit Auschwitz – a courageous assertion against the Holocaust denial rampant in Palestinian society,..
67 min
1091
Yael Almog, "Secularism and Hermeneutics" (U Pe...
In the late Enlightenment, a new imperative began to inform theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in the same way that we read the Bible...
57 min
1092
Jonathan Robker, "Balaam in Text and Tradition"...
Balaam plays a prominent role in the book of Numbers, but who was he?
27 min
1093
Rachel Werczberger, "Jews In The Age Of Authent...
Werczberger examined two Israeli communities of spiritual seekers in Israel..
47 min
1094
Jonathan Sarna, "American Judaism: A History" (...
Sarna chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America...
53 min
1095
Mark Roseman, "Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Resc...
What makes some people aid the persecuted while others just stand by?
62 min
1096
Evdoxios Doxiadis, "State, Nationalism, and the...
How did minorities fit into the new Greek state during the country’s transition from imperial rule to national sovereignty?
48 min
1097
Jeffrey Saks, "Agnon Library of The Toby Press"
Considered one of the greatest Hebrew writers, in 1966, Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
38 min
1098
Evgeny Finkel, "Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survi...
Can there be a political science of the Holocaust?
57 min
1099
Shai Lavi, "Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel...
Lavi and his colleagues have produced a groundbreaking work that offers a novel understanding of Israeli bioethics...
52 min
1100
Lynn Kaye, "Time In The Babylonian Talmud: Natu...
Kaye examines how rabbis of late antiquity thought about time through their legal reasoning and storytelling, and what these insights mean for thinking about time today...
49 min