New Books in Jewish Studies
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Sophia Shalmiyev, "Mother Winter: A Memoir" (Si...
For writer Sophia Shalmiyev, the question was never “who is my mother,” but rather, “where has she gone?”
37 min
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Miryam Sivan, "Make it Concrete" (Cuidono Press...
For twenty years, 47-year-old Isabel Toledo has been ghostwriting the stories of Holocaust survivors...
31 min
1103
Lynn Downey, "Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Bl...
Nearly every consumer today is familiar with the name Levi Strauss thank to the jeans that bear his name...
50 min
1104
Kirsten Fermaglich, "A Rosenberg by Any Other N...
Throughout the 20th century, especially during and immediately after WWII, New York Jews changed their names at rates considerably higher than any other ethnic group...
55 min
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Matilda Rabinowitz, "Immigrant Girl, Radical Wo...
Rabinowitz, born in 1887 in Ukraine, described her experiences as an immigrant, factory worker, single mother by choice, and union organizer...
57 min
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Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of...
Francesca Trivellato draws upon the economic, cultural, intellectual, and business history of the period to trace the origin of this myth and what its usage in early modern Europe reveals about contemporary views of both commerce and Judaism...
58 min
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Richard Averbeck, "Paradigm Change in Pentateuc...
For some two hundred years now, Pentateuchal scholarship has been dominated by the Documentary Hypothesis, a paradigm made popular by Julius Wellhausen...
21 min
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Julie Zuckerman, "The Book of Jeremiah" (Press ...
Spanning eight decades and interwoven with the Jewish experience of the 20th century, Julie Zuckerman charts Jeremiah’s life from boyhood, through service in WWII, to marriage and children, a professorship and finally retirement, with compassion, honesty, and a respect that even Gerstler himself would find touching...
23 min
1109
Jack Wertheimer, "The New American Judaism: How...
Wertheimer argues that American Jews are indeed engaging with Judaism, albeit in unique and unorthodox ways...
60 min
1110
Adriana X. Jacobs, "Strange Cocktail: Translati...
Adriana X. Jacobs offers a translation-centered reading of twentieth-century modern Hebrew poetry...
39 min
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Henning Pieper, "Fegelein’s Horsemen and Genoci...
The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a dual role: SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front...
53 min
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Vivi Lachs, "Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigran...
Lachs looks at London's Yiddish popular culture...
36 min
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Todd L. Patterson, "The Plot-structure of Genes...
39 min
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Michael R. Cohen, "Cotton Capitalists: American...
Michael R. Cohen is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University, where he holds a Sizeler Professorship...
44 min
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Pamela S. Nadell, "America’s Jewish Women: A Hi...
Jewish women have consistently played a vital and significant role in American history more broadly, and American Jewish history specifically...
51 min
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Paul K.-K. Cho, "Myth, History, and Metaphor in...
What is the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern myths?
32 min
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Mickey and Dick Flacks, "Making History/Making ...
As active members of the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s, and leaders in today’s social movements, the Flacks' stories are a first-hand account of progressive American activism from the 1960s to the present.
78 min
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Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, “Stereotyping R...
Our culture is full of popular stereotypes about religion, both positive and negative...
42 min
1119
Deborah E. Lipstadt, "Antisemitism: Here and No...
Over the past decade, and especially in the last several years, anti-Semitic crimes have increased significantly...
51 min
1120
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
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Amit Pinchevski, "Transmitted Wounds: Media and...
What does it mean to consider trauma and media from the perspective of technology and not from that of the subject of trauma, the clinician or the witness?
48 min
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Joyce Antler, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices ...
The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America...
49 min
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Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the E...
In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.
58 min
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Daniel Unowsky, “The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jew...
Unowsky tries to understand how, in an Empire built around the idea of the rule of law, anti-Jewish violence could erupt so quickly and then fade away almost as rapidly...
59 min
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Samuel Hayim Brody, "Martin Buber's Theopolitic...
Martin Buber is known as one of the 20th century's greatest Jewish scholars and thinkers, but he is less well known for his political theory and activism...
37 min