1385 Episodes

  1. Yonatan Y. Brafman, "Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 6/2/2025

  2. Adi Nester, "Unsettling Difference: Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish Identity" (Cornell UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/30/2025

  3. Krista N. Dalton, "How Rabbis Became Experts: Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/28/2025

  4. Jan Borowicz, "Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 5/24/2025

  5. Yitzhak Conforti, "Zionism and Jewish Culture: A Study in the Origins of a National Movement" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)

    Published: 5/23/2025

  6. David Kraemer, "Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora" (Oxford UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/22/2025

  7. Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism: An Emotional State" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

    Published: 5/21/2025

  8. Z'ev Ben Shimon Halevi: "The Kabbalistic Tree of Life" and "The Anointed"

    Published: 5/20/2025

  9. Yosie Levine, "Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate" (Littman Library, 2024)

    Published: 5/19/2025

  10. Marc Katz, "Yochanan's Gamble: Judaism's Pragmatic Approach to Life" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

    Published: 5/18/2025

  11. Michael A. Meyer, "Above All, We Are Jews: A Biography of Rabbi Alexander Schindler" (CCAR Press, 2025)

    Published: 5/16/2025

  12. Joanna Rubin Dranger, "Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir" (Ten Speed Graphic, 2025)

    Published: 5/15/2025

  13. Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)

    Published: 5/14/2025

  14. Victoria Khiterer, "Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration" (Purdue UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/11/2025

  15. Paul R. Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovskiĭ-Shtern, "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-existence" (U Toronto Press, 2018)

    Published: 5/10/2025

  16. Katerina Kralova, "Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-46" (Brandeis UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/9/2025

  17. Chris Webb and Artur Hojan, "The Chelmno Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem Press, 2019)

    Published: 5/8/2025

  18. Nechama Birnbaum, "The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2021)

    Published: 5/7/2025

  19. Lucy Adlington, "The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive" (HarperCollins, 2021)

    Published: 5/5/2025

  20. Hasia R. Diner, "Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)

    Published: 5/4/2025

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