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Dalia Kandiyoti, "The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture" (Stanford UP, 2020)

80 hours 40 mins; November 14, 2023

Walter A. Maier III, "1 Kings 12-22: Concordia Commentary" (Concordia, 2019)

16 mins; November 12, 2023

Walter A. Maier III, "1 Kings 1-11: Concordia Commentary" (Concordia, 2018)

15 mins; November 11, 2023

The Flow of Patience

38 mins; November 09, 2023

Austin Surls, "Making Sense of the Divine Name in the Book of Exodus: From Etymology to Literary Onomastics" (Eisenbrauns, 2017)

25 mins; November 05, 2023

Megan Nutzman, "Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

52 mins; November 05, 2023

Carson Bay, "Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

62 hours 30 mins; November 04, 2023

Equanimity in Dark Times

50 mins; November 02, 2023

Marat Grinberg, "The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines" (Brandeis UP, 2023)

74 hours 56 mins; October 29, 2023

Equanimity and Abraham

43 mins; October 26, 2023

Linda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)

43 mins; October 26, 2023

The Israeli Defense Force (IDF)'s Ethical Code

52 mins; October 24, 2023

Yanki Tauber, "The Book of Genesis with Commentary and Insights from 500 Sages and Mystics" (Open Book Press, 2022)

56 mins; October 24, 2023

Equanimity and Noaḥ

40 mins; October 24, 2023

Sebastian Huebel, "Fighter, Worker, and Family Man: German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933–1941" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

95 hours 45 mins; October 23, 2023

Equanimity and Bereshit

43 mins; October 23, 2023

Matthew Thiessen, "A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald to the Gentiles" (Baker Academic, 2023)

66 hours 6 mins; October 22, 2023

Melissa Weininger, "Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century" (Wayne State UP, 2023)

63 hours 30 mins; October 21, 2023

Stefan C. Ionescu, "Jewish Resistance to ‘Romanianization’, 1940-44" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

160 hours 59 mins; October 20, 2023

The Unquiet Legacy of Jewish Radical Meir Kahane

45 mins; October 19, 2023

Harriet Murav and Gennady Estraikh, "Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering" (Academic Studies Press, 2018)

62 hours 43 mins; October 07, 2023

Seth L. Sanders, "From Adapa to Enoch: Scribal Culture and Religious Vision in Judea and Babylonia" (Mohr Siebeck, 2017)

85 hours 41 mins; October 06, 2023

Ronna Detrick, "Rewriting Eve: Claiming Women's Sacred Stories As Our Own" (She Writes Press, 2023)

53 mins; October 03, 2023

Adolph L. Harstad, "Deuteronomy: Concordia Commentary" (Concordia Publishing House, 2022)

16 mins; October 02, 2023

Martina Mampieri, "Living Under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah Ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (Brill, 2020)

85 hours 16 mins; September 30, 2023

Rachel Elior, "The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages: On Learning and Illiteracy, On Slavery and Liberty" (de Gruyter, 2023)

102 hours 15 mins; September 29, 2023

Hammertime and Hanukkah (with Matthew and Leeanne Thomas)

67 hours 10 mins; September 28, 2023

Ruth Schwertfeger, "A Nazi Camp Near Danzig: Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

61 hours 52 mins; September 22, 2023

Katarzyna Person and Johannes-Dieter Steinert, "Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: The Camp, the Children, the Trials" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

88 hours 47 mins; September 21, 2023

Anthony Gad Bigio, "A Sephardi Turkish Patriot: Gad Franco in the Turmoil of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic" (Hamilton Books, 2023)

52 mins; September 17, 2023

Nathan Bills, "A Theology of Justice in Exodus" (Eisenbrauns, 2020)

17 mins; September 16, 2023

Arnold Lustiger, "Before Hashem You Shall Be Purified: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik on the Days of Awe" (Ohr Publishing, 2022)

52 mins; September 15, 2023

Avigdor Hameiri, "Under a Bloodred Sky: Avigdor Hameiri’s War Stories and Poetry" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

81 hours 53 mins; September 15, 2023

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, "Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther: Achaemenid Court Culture in the Hebrew Bible" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)

36 mins; September 14, 2023

Matisyahu Shulman, "Reimagining Repentance: Experiencing the High Holidays Through the Lens of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" (Kodesh, 2023)

56 mins; September 14, 2023

Norman Ravvin, "Who Gets In: An Immigration Story" (U Regina Press, 2023)

99 hours 9 mins; September 13, 2023

Alma Rachel Heckman, "The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging" (Stanford UP, 2020)

61 hours 41 mins; September 13, 2023

A Better Way to Buy Books

34 mins; September 12, 2023

Jonathan Sandler, "The English GI: World War II Graphic Memoir of a Yorkshire Schoolboy's Adventures in the United States and Europe" (2022)

58 mins; September 08, 2023

Valerie Hébert ed., "Framing the Holocaust: Photographs of a Mass Shooting in Latvia, 1941" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

56 mins; September 07, 2023

Tomaz Jardim, "Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the 'Bitch of Buchenwald'" (Harvard UP, 2023)

56 mins; September 06, 2023

Nancy L. Segal, "The Twin Children of the Holocaust: Stolen Childhood and the Will to Survive" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

59 mins; September 05, 2023

Andrew Hesketh, "Escape to Gwrych Castle: A Jewish Refugee Story" (U of Wales Press, 2023)

36 mins; September 04, 2023

Romina Yalonetzky, "Gente Como Uno: Class, Belonging, and Transnationalism in Jewish Life in Lima" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)

108 hours 3 mins; September 02, 2023

Heike Bauer et al., "Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders" (Syracuse UP, 2022)

55 mins; September 02, 2023

H. Norman Strickman, "The Secret of the Torah: A Translation of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Sefer Yesod Mora" (Kodesh Press, 2021)

61 hours 2 mins; August 30, 2023

Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman, "Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens" (Academic Studies Press, 2017)

51 mins; August 29, 2023

On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen

62 hours 29 mins; August 29, 2023

Pothiti Hantzaroula, "Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Greece: Memory, Testimony and Subjectivity" (Routledge, 2020)

94 hours 31 mins; August 29, 2023

Wolf Gruner, "Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany" (Yale UP, 2023)

85 hours 38 mins; August 29, 2023

Ari Finkelstein, "The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch" (U California Press, 2018)

72 hours 0 mins; August 26, 2023

Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

40 mins; August 21, 2023

Jason Weiner, "Care and Covenant: A Jewish Bioethic of Responsibility" (Georgetown UP, 2022)

48 mins; August 16, 2023

Yehuda Halper, "Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age Without Plato: Permitting and Forbidding Open-Inquiry in 12-15th Century Europe and North Africa" (Brill, 2021)

60 hours 14 mins; August 15, 2023

Gadi Sagiv, "Jewish Blues: A History of a Color in Judaism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

32 mins; August 13, 2023

Shana Rosenblatt Mauer, "Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

48 mins; August 12, 2023

Esra Özyürek, "Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany" (Stanford UP, 2023)

43 mins; August 10, 2023

Stanley E. Porter and Alan E. Kurschner eds., "The Future Restoration of Israel: A Response to Supersessionism" (Pickwick, 2023)

22 mins; August 08, 2023

Mike Rothschild, "Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories" (Melville House, 2023)

49 mins; August 06, 2023

Jack Cohen and Yosef Lynn, "Nurture Their Nature: The Torah’s Essential Guidance for Parents and Teachers" (Mosaica Press, 2021)

64 hours 53 mins; August 04, 2023

Joshua Cohen’s "The Netanyahus" (JP, Eugene Sheppard)

48 mins; August 03, 2023

James Crossley and Robert J. Myles, "Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict" (Zero Books, 2023)

98 hours 37 mins; August 02, 2023

Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)

84 hours 15 mins; July 29, 2023

Lea Taragin-Zeller, "The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land" (NYU Press, 2023)

64 hours 44 mins; July 24, 2023

Yamin Levy, "The Mysticism of Andalusia: Exploring HaRambam's Mystical Tradition" (MHC Press, 2023)

53 mins; July 23, 2023

Erica Brown, "Ecclesiastes and the Search for Meaning" (Maggid, 2023)

21 mins; July 22, 2023

Paul Hanebrink, "In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944" (Cornell UP, 2018)

65 hours 35 mins; July 21, 2023

Moshe Miller, "Rising Moon: Unraveling the Book of Ruth" (Kodesh Press, 2022)

34 mins; July 21, 2023

Béla Bodó, "Black Humor and the White Terror" (Routledge, 2023)

76 hours 55 mins; July 19, 2023

Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2018)

72 hours 7 mins; July 19, 2023

Ben Nadler, "The Jewish Deli: An Illustrated Guide to the Chosen Food" (Chronicle Books, 2023)

53 mins; July 18, 2023

Judith Roumani, "Jews in Southern Tuscany During the Holocaust" (Lexington Books, 2020)

91 hours 23 mins; July 15, 2023

David Curwin, "Kohelet: A Map to Eden" (Maggid, 2023)

16 mins; July 13, 2023

Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon, 2022)

64 hours 57 mins; July 12, 2023

Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, "The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible" (Princeton UP, 2023)

42 mins; July 08, 2023

Daniel Boyarin, "The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)

55 mins; July 07, 2023

Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, eds., "A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar" (U California Press, 2023)

98 hours 28 mins; July 04, 2023

Jennifer Caplan, "Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials" (Wayne State UP, 2023)

60 hours 31 mins; July 04, 2023

Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, "Stereotyping Religion II: Critiquing Clichés" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

42 mins; July 01, 2023

Anna Müller, "An Ordinary Life?: The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918-1996" (Ohio UP, 2023)

73 hours 50 mins; June 30, 2023

Edward Kissi, "Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples" (Routledge, 2021)

116 hours 59 mins; June 29, 2023

David Wenham, "Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

37 mins; June 27, 2023

Yaakov Beasley, "Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: Lights in the Valley" (Maggid, 2020)

54 mins; June 26, 2023

Illuminations Episode 9: Rituals for a Dying World

23 mins; June 22, 2023

W. Gil Shin, "The 'Exodus' in Jerusalem (Luke 9:31): A Lukan Form of Israel's Restoration Hope" (Brill, 2022)

33 mins; June 21, 2023

Daniel A. Klein, "Shadal on Numbers: Samuel David Luzzatto's Interpretation of the Book of Bemidbar" (Kodesh Press, 2023)

29 mins; June 18, 2023

Orit Avishai, "Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel" (NYU Press, 2023)

52 mins; June 18, 2023

Pinchas Blitt, "A Promise of Sweet Tea" (Azrieli Foundation, 2021)

95 hours 37 mins; June 16, 2023

Randy Grigsby, "This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light: Henrietta Szold, the Rescue of Children from Hitler's Europe and Her Palestine Experience" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)

54 mins; June 08, 2023

Randy Grigsby, "A Train to Palestine: The Tehran Children, Anders' Army and Their Escape from Stalin's Siberia, 1939-1943" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2019)

58 mins; June 06, 2023

Eliyana R. Adler and Katerina Capková, "Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

56 mins; June 04, 2023

Béla Bodó, "The White Terror: Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919-1921" (Routledge, 2019)

107 hours 39 mins; May 30, 2023

Hilary Frances Aked, "Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity" (Verso, 2023)

82 hours 22 mins; May 30, 2023

Bart D. Ehrman, "Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)

37 mins; May 28, 2023

Jessica M. Marglin, "The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2022)

61 hours 1 min; May 27, 2023

Aomar Boum, "Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2023)

65 hours 21 mins; May 26, 2023

Saskia Coenen Snyder, "A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting" (Oxford UP, 2022)

59 mins; May 25, 2023

Avigail Rock, "Great Biblical Commentators: Biographies, Methodologies, and Contributions" (Maggid, 2023)

38 mins; May 23, 2023

Elly Gotz, "Flights of Spirit" (Azrieli Foundation, 2018)

55 mins; May 20, 2023

Simon Geissbühler, ed., "Romania and the Holocaust: Events, Contexts, Aftermath" (Ibidem Press, 2016)

60 hours 43 mins; May 19, 2023

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