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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
1127
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
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Evgeny Finkel, "Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survi...
Can there be a political science of the Holocaust?
57 min
1129
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
1130
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
1131
Markus Zehnder, "New Studies in the Book of Isa...
Zehnder looks at the enigmatic figure of the ‘Servant of the Lord.’
30 min
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David Slucki, "My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers ...
Slucki’s memoir blends the scholarly and literary, grounding the story of his grandfather and father in the broader context of the twentieth century...
34 min
1133
Naftali Rothenberg, "Rabbi Akiva’s Philosophy o...
Is love between man and woman the source of wisdom and the cornerstone of moral life?
45 min
1134
Liat Steir-Livny, "Remaking Holocaust Memory: D...
Steir-Livny analyzes 19 prominent films that reflect the key tendencies of third-generation Holocaust documentaries...
42 min
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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
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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
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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
1142
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
1143
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
1144
Adriana X. Jacobs, "Strange Cocktail: Translati...
Adriana X. Jacobs offers a translation-centered reading of twentieth-century modern Hebrew poetry...
39 min
1145
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
1146
Vivi Lachs, "Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigran...
Lachs looks at London's Yiddish popular culture...
36 min
1147
Todd L. Patterson, "The Plot-structure of Genes...
39 min
1148
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
1149
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