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Ann Koffsky, "Kayla and Kugel's Happy Hanhukkah" (Apples and Honey Press, 2020)
39 mins; December 28, 2021
Beate Kowalski and Susan E. Docherty, "The Reception of Exodus Motifs in Jewish and Christian Literature: "Let My People Go!" (Brill, 2021)
38 mins; December 23, 2021
Marcia Pally, "From This Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
78 hours 16 mins; December 21, 2021
Izabela Wagner, "Bauman: A Biography" (Polity, 2020)
59 mins; December 17, 2021
Julian E. Zelizer, "Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement" (Yale UP, 2021)
55 mins; December 17, 2021
"Bambi" isn't about what you think it's about: Jack Zipes explains
39 mins; December 15, 2021
Jonathan Sacks, "The Koren Standard Tanakh Maalot" (Koren, 2021)
48 mins; December 14, 2021
Menachem Kellner, "We Are Not Alone: A Maimonidean Theology of the Other" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
69 hours 20 mins; December 13, 2021
Sonia Gollance, "It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2021)
82 hours 45 mins; December 07, 2021
Rani Jaeger, "Abraham the Hebrew Believer: Secularism and Religion in the Work of Avraham Shlonsky (1900-1973)"
50 mins; December 01, 2021
Noah Isenberg ed., Shelley Frisch, trans., "Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna" (Princeton UP, 2021)
49 mins; December 01, 2021
Hadassah Lieberman, "Hadassah: An American Story" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
61 hours 20 mins; November 29, 2021
Grant T. Harward, "Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2021)
84 hours 43 mins; November 26, 2021
Annegret Oehme, "The Knight Without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations" (Brill, 2021)
57 mins; November 26, 2021
Dana Mack, "All Things That Deserve to Perish: A Novel of Wilhelmine Germany" (2020)
44 mins; November 22, 2021
Matthew Levering, "Engaging the Doctrine of Israel: A Christian Israelology in Dialogue with Ongoing Judaism" (Cascade Books, 2021)
21 mins; November 19, 2021
Anders Persson, "EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
59 mins; November 18, 2021
David Barak-Gorodetsky, "Judah Magnes: The Prophetic Politics of a Religious Binationalist" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
44 mins; November 18, 2021
Daniel C. Matt, "The Zohar" (Stanford UP, 2018)
62 hours 29 mins; November 17, 2021
Yair Wallach, "A City in Fragments: Urban Texts in Modern Jerusalem" (Stanford UP, 2020)
86 hours 25 mins; November 15, 2021
Amy Sodaro, "Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
62 hours 26 mins; November 04, 2021
Andrea Gondos, "Kabbalah in Print: The Study and Popularization of Jewish Mysticism in Early Modernity" (SUNY Press, 2020)
50 mins; November 04, 2021
Aubrey L. Glazer, "Mystical Vertigo: Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide" (Academic Studies Press, 2013)
59 mins; November 03, 2021
Jan Rybak, "Everyday Zionism in East-Central Europe: Nation-Building in War and Revolution, 1914-1920" (Oxford UP, 2021)
82 hours 18 mins; November 02, 2021
Jason Gile, "Ezekiel and the World of Deuteronomy" (T&T Clark, 2021)
30 mins; October 29, 2021
Meni Even-Israel, "The Steinsaltz Tanya V3: Sha'ar Hayihud Veha'emuna and Iggeret Hateshuva" (Maggid, 2021)
44 mins; October 27, 2021
Caroline A. Kita, "Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna: Composing Compassion in Music and Biblical Theater" (Indiana UP, 2019)
52 mins; October 26, 2021
Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)
53 mins; October 26, 2021
Ethan Kleinberg, "Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought" (Stanford UP, 2021)
65 hours 31 mins; October 25, 2021
Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper, "A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg" (Yale UP, 2021)
67 hours 28 mins; October 15, 2021
Dov Zakheim, "The Prince and the Emperors: The Life and Times of Rabbi Judah the Prince" (Maggid, 2021)
39 mins; October 15, 2021
Eliyana R. Adler, "Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union" (Harvard UP, 2020)
63 hours 34 mins; October 14, 2021
Mikhael Manekin, "The Dawn of Redemption: Ethics and Tradition in a Time of Power" (Evrit, 2021)
56 mins; October 13, 2021
Jeffrey Veidlinger, "In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
54 mins; October 12, 2021
John-Paul Himka, "Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust: OUN and UPA's Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941-1944" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
60 hours 39 mins; October 12, 2021
Yakov Nagen, "The Soul of the Mishna" (Maggid, 2021)
34 mins; October 12, 2021
Shay Hazkani, "Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War" (Stanford UP, 2021)
84 hours 0 mins; September 29, 2021
Michael Geheran, "Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler" (Cornell UP, 2020)
74 hours 2 mins; September 22, 2021
Kristin Swenson, "A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible" (Oxford UP, 2021)
64 hours 58 mins; September 21, 2021
Rachel Rojanski, "Yiddish in Israel: A History" (Indiana UP, 2020)
99 hours 40 mins; September 20, 2021
Emmanuel Navon, "The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
43 mins; September 16, 2021
Shlomit Naim Naor, "The Things We Are Not Talking About" (2020)
59 mins; September 13, 2021
Ori Yehudai, "Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
83 hours 49 mins; September 09, 2021
Sarah Bunin Benor et al., "Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
67 hours 11 mins; September 02, 2021
A. J. Culp, "Memoir of Moses: The Literary Creation of Covenantal Memory in Deuteronomy" (Fortress, 2019)
13 mins; September 01, 2021
Danny Adeno Abebe, "From Africa To Zion" (Miskal, 2021)
54 mins; August 31, 2021
HélÚne Jawhara Piñer, "Sephardi: Cooking the History. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Diaspora, from the 13th Century Onwards" (Cherry Orchard, 2021)
85 hours 37 mins; August 30, 2021
David J. Goldberg, “Rabbi With A Cause: Israel and Identity” (Open Agenda, 2021)
87 hours 36 mins; August 27, 2021
Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz. "The Essential Talmud" (Maggid, 2010)
43 mins; August 27, 2021
Naphtaly Shem-Tov, "Israeli Theatre: Mizrahi Jews and Self-Representation" (Routledge, 2021)
82 hours 24 mins; August 25, 2021
Stanley Mirvis, "The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Yale UP, 2020)
60 hours 13 mins; August 23, 2021
Ilana Maymind, "Exile and Otherness: The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides" (Lexington Books, 2020)
48 mins; August 13, 2021
Eliza Ablovatski, "Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe: The Deluge of 1919" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
62 hours 8 mins; August 11, 2021
Daniel A. Klein (trans.), "Shadal on Leviticus" (Kodesh Press, 2020)
37 mins; August 10, 2021
Mika Ahuvia, "On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture" (U California Press, 2021)
57 mins; August 09, 2021
Elizabeth Anthony, "The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews After the Holocaust" (Wayne State UP, 2021)
66 hours 29 mins; August 07, 2021
Leonard J. Greenspoon, "Olam Ha-zeh V'olam Ha-ba: This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice" (Purdue UP, 2017)
55 mins; August 04, 2021
Robin Derricourt, "Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions" ( Manchester UP, 2021)
57 mins; July 29, 2021
Moshe Halbertal, "Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism" (Yale UP, 2020)
31 mins; July 27, 2021
Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Cultural Disjunctions: Post-Traditional Jewish Identities" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
55 mins; July 16, 2021
David Arnovitz, "Samuel: The Making of the Monarchy, Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel" (Koren Publishers, 2021)
18 mins; July 14, 2021
Under the Arch of Titus: A Gateway to the Jewish Community
31 mins; July 14, 2021
Yael Ziegler, "Lamentations: Faith in a Turbulent World" (Koren Publishers, 2021)
32 mins; July 14, 2021
Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel, "Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews" (North Atlantic Books, 2021)
62 hours 46 mins; July 09, 2021
Leonard Greenspoon, "Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
66 hours 53 mins; July 09, 2021
Michael Fishbane, "Fragile Finitude: A Jewish Hermeneutical Theology" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
55 mins; July 08, 2021
Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, "Talks on the Parasha" (Maggid, 2015)
48 mins; July 08, 2021
Ruth Mazo Karras, "Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
60 hours 45 mins; July 02, 2021
Assaf Shelleg, "Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project" (Oxford UP, 2020)
57 mins; July 02, 2021
Sina Kahen, "Ideas: Bereshit" (2020)
71 hours 12 mins; July 01, 2021
Mariusz Kalczewiak, "Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture" (U Alabama Press, 2019)
52 mins; June 25, 2021
Isaac W. Oliver, "Luke's Jewish Eschatology: The National Restoration of Israel in Luke-Acts" (Oxford UP, 2021)
38 mins; June 23, 2021
Hugh McLeod and Todd Weir, "Defending the Faith: Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century" (Oxford UP, 2020)
39 mins; June 10, 2021
Edward B. Westermann, "Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany" (Cornell UP, 2021)
72 hours 47 mins; June 10, 2021
Natalia Aleksiun, "Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust" (Littman Library, 2021)
63 hours 19 mins; May 31, 2021
Katarzyna Person, "Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation" (Cornell UP, 2021)
56 mins; May 28, 2021
Zev Eleff, "Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
61 hours 26 mins; May 27, 2021
Devi Mays, "Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora" (Stanford UP, 2020)
85 hours 20 mins; May 26, 2021
A Conversation with Jessica Kirzane about Yiddish Studies
63 hours 40 mins; May 20, 2021
Harry Freedman, "Reason to Believe: The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
63 hours 49 mins; May 17, 2021
Leon R. Kass, "Founding God’s Nation: Reading Exodus" (Yale UP, 2021)
65 hours 41 mins; May 17, 2021
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, "The Erez Concise Guide Series" (Koren, 2021)
31 mins; May 17, 2021
Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
26 mins; May 13, 2021
Mira Sucharov, "Borders and Belonging: A Memoir" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
53 mins; May 11, 2021
Amelia M. Glaser, "Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine" (Harvard UP, 2020)
59 mins; May 05, 2021
Lila Corwin Berman, "The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution" (Princeton UP, 2020)
55 mins; May 05, 2021
Adam Hochschild, "Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020)
51 mins; May 04, 2021
Svenja Bethke, "Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
57 mins; April 30, 2021
Daniel Herskowitz, "Heidegger and His Jewish Reception" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
69 hours 51 mins; April 28, 2021
Thomas Robinson and Hillary Rodrigues, "World Religions Reader: Understanding Our Religious World" (ROBINEST, 2020)
42 mins; April 23, 2021
Massoud Hayoun, "When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History" (New Press, 2019)
73 hours 10 mins; April 21, 2021
Rachel B. Gross, "Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice" (NYU Press, 2021)
62 hours 58 mins; April 19, 2021
Sheila E. Jelen, "Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies" (Wayne State UP, 2020
69 hours 59 mins; April 12, 2021
Cedric Cohen-Skalli, "Don Isaac Abravanel: An Intellectual Biography" (Brandeis UP, 2020)
97 hours 35 mins; April 08, 2021
Dina Porat, "Vengeance and Retribution Are Mine: Community, the Holocaust, and Abba Kovner's Avengers" (Pardes, 2019)
63 hours 19 mins; April 06, 2021
Roundtable on Medieval Conspiracy Theories
67 hours 3 mins; March 31, 2021
Jeffrey Shandler, "Yiddish: Biography of a Language" (Oxford UP, 2020)
64 hours 10 mins; March 22, 2021
Jeffrey Shandler, "Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors' Stories and New Media Practices" (Stanford UP, 2017)
64 hours 10 mins; March 17, 2021
Joshua Cole, "Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria" (Cornell UP, 2019)
63 hours 45 mins; March 16, 2021
Jennifer Anne Moses, "The Man Who Loved His Wife" (Mayapple Press, 2021)
35 mins; March 09, 2021
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