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Religion & Spirituality
Judaism
1101
David N. Gottlieb, "Second Slayings: The Bindin...
Gottlieb explores the decisive - and, until now, under-appreciated - influence exerted on Jewish memory by the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac narrative in the Book of Genesis...
63 min
1102
Joyce Dalsheim, "Israel Has a Jewish Problem: S...
Dalsheim considers some of the surprising outcomes of the great Israeli experiment of re-imagining and reconstructing Judaism, Jewishness and the Jewish people as an ethno-national project focused on the state...
38 min
1103
Nora Gold, "The Dead Man" (Inanna Publications,...
"The Dead Man" a beautiful tale of love, loss, family, and the music of the world around us...
30 min
1104
Ian J. Vaillancourt, "The Multifaceted Saviour ...
How should we understand the appearances of the king in Book V of the Hebrew Psalter?
62 min
1105
Julia Neuberger, "Antisemitism: What It Is, Wha...
Anti-Semitic incidents, ranging from vandalism through murder, are on the rise in Great Britain, and across Europe and North America...
46 min
1106
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
1107
Lyn Julius, "Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish...
Who are the Jews from Arab countries?
38 min
1108
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
1109
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
1110
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
1111
C. Browning, P. Hayes, R. Hilberg, "German Rail...
Raul Hilberg was a giant in the field of Genocide and Holocaust Studies...
49 min
1112
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
1113
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
1114
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
1115
Daniel Reynolds, "Postcards from Auschwitz: Hol...
Millions of tourists visit Holocaust museums and memorials every year.,,
54 min
1116
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
1117
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
1118
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
1119
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
1120
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
1121
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
1122
Jonathan Robker, "Balaam in Text and Tradition"...
Balaam plays a prominent role in the book of Numbers, but who was he?
27 min
1123
Rachel Werczberger, "Jews In The Age Of Authent...
Werczberger examined two Israeli communities of spiritual seekers in Israel..
47 min
1124
Jonathan Sarna, "American Judaism: A History" (...
Sarna chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America...
53 min
1125
Mark Roseman, "Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Resc...
What makes some people aid the persecuted while others just stand by?
62 min