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Peter E. Gordon, "Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver" (Yale UP, 2026)
52 mins; April 03, 2026
Rethinking Kishinev: How a Riot Changed 20th Century Jewish History
76 hours 11 mins; April 02, 2026
Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese Food
45 mins; March 30, 2026
Sarah Berman, "Haggadah Shel Erev Rav: The Mixed Multitude Haggadah" (CCAR Press, 2026)
35 mins; March 29, 2026
Elisheva Baumgarten, "Beyond the Elite: Everyday Jewish Lives in Medieval Northern Europe" (Cornell UP, 2026)
53 mins; March 28, 2026
Yiddish in Israel: A History
71 hours 1 min; March 27, 2026
The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of Sholem Aleichem
63 hours 17 mins; March 24, 2026
The Jews in Poland-Lithuania and Russia: 1350 to the Present Day
69 hours 21 mins; March 23, 2026
The Vilna Gaon and the Making of Modern Judaism
62 hours 20 mins; March 22, 2026
Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
53 mins; March 21, 2026
Marc Chagall: Reflections of a Granddaughter
64 hours 16 mins; March 19, 2026
Zainab Saleh, "Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2025)
65 hours 22 mins; March 17, 2026
Jewface: “Yiddish” Dialect Songs of Tin Pan Alley
78 hours 46 mins; March 16, 2026
Michael Kimmel, "Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2026)
33 mins; March 14, 2026
An Evening with Philip Roth: A Conversation with Bernard Avishai, Igor Webb, and Steven Zipperstein
67 hours 3 mins; March 13, 2026
Joshua Berman, "Echoes of Egypt: A Haggada" (Koren, 2026)
28 mins; March 09, 2026
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City with Henry Sapoznik
64 hours 26 mins; March 08, 2026
Vladka Meed's "On Both Sides of the Wall"
56 mins; March 06, 2026
Ofer Idels, "Embodying the Revolution: The Hebrew Experience and the Globalization of Modern Sports in Interwar Palestine" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
43 mins; March 04, 2026
Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell, "Lincoln and the Jews: A History" (NYU Press, 2025)
48 mins; February 28, 2026
Zev Eleff et al. eds., "The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Law" (Oxford UP, 2025)
74 hours 56 mins; February 27, 2026
The Shtetl: Myth and Reality with Samuel Kassow
68 hours 45 mins; February 27, 2026
Zalman Newfield, "Brooklyn Odyssey: My Journey Out of Hasidism" (Temple UP, 2026)
78 hours 55 mins; February 23, 2026
Todd H. Weir and Lieke Wijnia, eds., "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Heritage in Contemporary Europe" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
82 hours 37 mins; February 23, 2026
David Frankfurter ed., "Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic" (Brill, 2019)
39 mins; February 19, 2026
Beth A. Berkowitz, "What Animals Teach us About Families: Kinship and Species in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature" (U California Press, 2026)
70 hours 31 mins; February 16, 2026
Cindy Schweich Handler, "A German Jew's Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany" (McFarland, 2025)
57 mins; February 16, 2026
Alex Alvarez and Richard R. Fernandez, "Lethal Elites: The Institutions and Professionals That Made the Holocaust Possible" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
59 mins; February 15, 2026
Howard Alan Israel, "Nazi Anatomy Lessons: A Dissection of Evil" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2026)
47 mins; February 13, 2026
Karen Bermann, "The Art of Being a Stranger: A Family Memoir" (New Jewish Press, 2025)
28 mins; February 11, 2026
Daniel R. Langton, "Darwin in the Jewish Imagination: Jews' Engagement with Evolutionary Theory" (Oxford UP, 2026)
53 mins; February 10, 2026
164 Maurice Samuels: Jewish Assimilation, Integration and the Dreyfus Affair (JP)
60 hours 19 mins; February 05, 2026
Rob Kutner, "The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting" (Wicked Son, 2025)
39 mins; February 04, 2026
Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach, "A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe" (Princeton UP, 2025)
60 hours 11 mins; January 29, 2026
Noam Sienna, "Jewish Books in North Africa: Between the Early Modern and Modern Worlds" (Indiana UP, 2025)
61 hours 26 mins; January 12, 2026
Miriam Udel, "Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
59 mins; January 07, 2026
Adam S. Ferziger. "Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism" (NYU Press, 2025)
57 mins; January 04, 2026
Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
72 hours 9 mins; December 29, 2025
Lisa Silverman, "The Postwar Antisemite: Culture and Complicity After the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2025)
69 hours 29 mins; December 28, 2025
Andrew Porwancher, "American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews" (Princeton UP, 2025)
30 mins; December 28, 2025
Daniel M. Herskowitz, "The Judeo-Christian Thought of Franz Rosenzweig" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
70 hours 8 mins; December 27, 2025
Martin Herskovitz, "Son of the Shoah: Poems from a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor" (McFarland, 2025)
33 mins; December 26, 2025
Anna Hájková, "People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
33 mins; December 26, 2025
Shlomo Pereira, "Monuments de Papel E Pergaminho: Hebrew Printing in Portugal at the End of the 15th Century" (Chabad Portugal Press, 2025)
51 mins; December 25, 2025
Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
63 hours 35 mins; December 25, 2025
Scott D. Seligman, "The Great Christmas Boycott Of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)
39 mins; December 24, 2025
David Arnovitz, "Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel: Deuteronomy" (Koren, 2025)
16 mins; December 23, 2025
Daniel K. Falk and Rodney A. Werline, "Prayer in the Ancient World Vol.1" (Brill, 2027)
35 mins; December 17, 2025
Mark Celinscak and Mehnaz Afridi, eds., "Global Approaches to the Holocaust: Memory, History and Representation" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)
62 hours 38 mins; December 16, 2025
James Redfield, "Adventures of Rabah and Friends: The Talmud's Strange Tales and Their Readers" (Brown Judaic Studies, 2025)
48 mins; December 14, 2025
Susan Weingarten, "Ancient Jewish Food in its Geographical and Cultural Contexts: What’s Cooking in the Talmuds?" (Taylor & Francis, 2025
37 mins; December 13, 2025
Yael Leibowitz, "Ezra-Nehemiah: Retrograde Revolution" (Maggid, 2025)
13 mins; December 11, 2025
Jack Wertheimer, "Jewish Giving: Philanthropy and the Shaping of American Jewish Life" (NYU Press, 2025)
60 hours 38 mins; December 10, 2025
YIVO Archives and Library, "100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research" (YIVO, 2025)
31 mins; December 10, 2025
Grace Kessler Overbeke, "First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll" (NYU Press, 2024)
44 mins; December 05, 2025
Adam Silverstein, "Haman" (Princeton UP, 2025)
37 mins; December 05, 2025
Jacob Daniels, "The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders" (Stanford UP, 2025)
81 hours 19 mins; December 03, 2025
Reading the Bible with AI?: A Conversation with John Kaag, Philosopher and Co-Founder of Rebind AI
42 mins; December 03, 2025
Julia Wagner, "Hester Street" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
40 mins; December 02, 2025
Benjamin Balthaser, "Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left" (Verso Books, 2025)
76 hours 59 mins; November 30, 2025
Piotr Nowak, "After Jews: Essays on Political Theology, Shoah and the End of Man" (Anthem Press, 2025)
66 hours 56 mins; November 25, 2025
Jeffrey K. Salkin, "Inviting God In: A Guide to Jewish Prayer" (CCAR Press, 2025)
44 mins; November 24, 2025
Yehudah Halper, "Averroes on Pathways to Divine Knowledge" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
42 mins; November 19, 2025
Henry H. Sapoznik, "The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City" (SUNY Press, 2025)
47 mins; November 18, 2025
Wendy I. Zierler, "Going Out with Knots: My Two Kaddish Years with Hebrew Poetry" (Jewish Publication Society, 2025)
43 mins; November 18, 2025
Michal Govrin et. al, "But There Was Love―Shaping the Memory of the Shoah" (de Gruyter, 2025)
33 mins; November 12, 2025
Michal Govrin et. al, "But There Was Love―Shaping the Memory of the Shoah" (de Gruyter, 2025)
33 mins; November 12, 2025
Elizabeth R. Hyman, "The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising" (Harper, 2025)
40 mins; November 03, 2025
Shaul Kelner, "A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized To Free Soviet Jews" (NYU Press, 2025)
36 mins; November 02, 2025
Elissa Bemporad, "Jews in the Soviet Union: A History: Revolution, Civil War, and New Ways of Life, 1917–1930, Vol. 1" (NYU Press, 2025)
57 mins; October 29, 2025
Paula Oppermann, "Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
64 hours 54 mins; October 29, 2025
Mark Mazower, "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" (Penguin Press, 2025)
45 mins; October 26, 2025
Iris Idelson-Shein, "Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe" (U Penn Press, 2024)
51 mins; October 25, 2025
Maurice Samuels, "Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair" (Yale UP, 2024)
39 mins; October 21, 2025
Lawrence Grossman, "Living in Both Worlds: Modern Orthodox Judaism in the United States, 1945-2025" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
55 mins; October 12, 2025
Scott D. Seligman, "The Chief Rabbi's Funeral" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
55 mins; October 08, 2025
Árni Heimir Ingólfsson, "Music at World's End: Three Exiled Musicians from Nazi Germany and Austria and Their Contribution to Music in Iceland" (SUNY Press, 2025)
55 mins; October 05, 2025
Cooper Smith, "Allusive and Elusive: Allusion and the Elihu Speeches of Job 32-37" (Brill, 2022)
31 mins; October 05, 2025
Sarah Hurwitz, "As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us" (HarperOne, 2025)
50 mins; October 04, 2025
Danya Ruttenberg, "On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World" (Beacon Press, 2022)
31 mins; October 04, 2025
Elizabeth E. Imber, "Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism" (Stanford UP, 2025)
72 hours 46 mins; September 26, 2025
Mark A. Schneegurt, "Everyday Holiday: A Jewish Calendar of Events and Observances" (Independently Published, 2024)
52 mins; September 26, 2025
Paris Papamichos Chronakis, "The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule" (Stanford UP, 2024)
71 hours 50 mins; September 25, 2025
Shulamit Reinharz, "Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2024)
60 hours 29 mins; September 21, 2025
Hannah Shafiroff, "My Little Book of Big Jewish Holidays" (Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2025)
33 mins; September 19, 2025
Ofer Ashkenazi, et al., "Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
61 hours 17 mins; September 18, 2025
Steven J. Zipperstein, "Philip Roth: Stung by Life" (Yale UP, 2025)
60 hours 38 mins; September 17, 2025
Laura Hobson Faure, "Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust" (Yale UP, 2025)
72 hours 22 mins; September 12, 2025
Christopher C. Gorham, "Matisse at War: Art and Resistance in Nazi Occupied France" (Citadel Press, 2025)
48 mins; September 09, 2025
Cynthia Paces, "Prague: The Heart of Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)
100 hours 9 mins; September 08, 2025
Leah Hochman and Stanley M. Davids, "Re-forming Judaism: Moments of Disruption in Jewish Thought" (Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2023)
49 mins; September 07, 2025
Markus Vinzent, "Christ's Torah: The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century" (Routledge, 2023)
78 hours 6 mins; September 06, 2025
Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, "Rethinking Jewish History and Memory Through Photography" (SUNY Press, 2025)
52 mins; September 06, 2025
Hyun Ho Park, "Intergroup Conflict, Recategorization, and Identity Construction in Acts: Breaking the Cycle of Slander, Labeling and Violence" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
29 mins; September 01, 2025
Tracy Slater, "Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp" (Chicago Review Press, 2025)
42 mins; August 28, 2025
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)
44 mins; August 25, 2025
Ronald D. Price, "Divrei Halev: Thoughts of Rabbi Professor David Weiss Halivni on the Weekly Torah Portion" (Gefen, 2025)
42 mins; August 24, 2025
Alexander Kimel and Martin Kimel, "The Pessimists Son: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)
74 hours 23 mins; August 21, 2025
Barbara Vinick and Shulamit Reinharz, "100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World" (Indiana UP, 2024)
65 hours 22 mins; August 20, 2025
Barry Strauss, "Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
44 mins; August 19, 2025
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