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Daniel Gordis, "Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?" (Ecco Press, 2023)

40 mins; May 17, 2023

Oded Zinger, "Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

54 mins; May 11, 2023

Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)

34 mins; May 10, 2023

Samantha Pickette, "Peak TV's Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy" (Lexington, 2022)

66 hours 9 mins; May 07, 2023

Ephraim Chamiel, "To Know Torah" (2018)

33 mins; May 06, 2023

Daniel Roth, "Third-Party Peacemakers in Judaism: Text, Theory, and Practice" (Oxford UP, 2021)

28 mins; May 03, 2023

Ostap Kin, "Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond" (HURI, 2022)

51 mins; April 29, 2023

Remember the Sabbath (with Senator Joe Lieberman)

45 mins; April 27, 2023

Crispin Brooks and Kiril Feferman, "Beyond the Pale: The Holocaust in the North Caucasus" (U Rochester Press, 2020)

111 hours 45 mins; April 22, 2023

Barak S. Cohen, "For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of the Lord from Nehar Peqod" (Brill, 2017)

30 mins; April 21, 2023

Barak S. Cohen, "The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia" (Brill, 2011)

63 hours 17 mins; April 20, 2023

Writing the Counter-Book: Joshua Cohen with Eugene Sheppard (JP)

47 mins; April 20, 2023

Joshua Berman, "Narrative Analogy in the Hebrew Bible: Battle Stories and Their Equivalent Non-battle Narratives" (Brill, 2004)

22 mins; April 19, 2023

Timothy Sean Quinn, "Apiqoros: The Last Essays of Salomon Maimon" (Hebrew Union College Press, 2021)

95 hours 12 mins; April 18, 2023

Piotr M. A. Cywiński, "Auschwitz: A Monograph on the Human" (Muzeum Auschwitz, 2022)

61 hours 8 mins; April 16, 2023

The Future of Antisemitism: A Discussion with Dave Rich

58 mins; April 15, 2023

Laura Hobson Faure, "A 'Jewish Marshall Plan': The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France" (Indiana UP, 2022)

72 hours 56 mins; April 10, 2023

Helene J. Sinnreich, "The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow Ghettos during World War II" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

47 mins; April 07, 2023

Laura Arnold Leibman, "Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family" (Oxford UP, 2021)

50 mins; April 05, 2023

S. L. Wisenberg, "The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)

25 mins; April 04, 2023

Andrea Hammel, "Finding Refuge: Stories of the Men, Women and Children who fFed to Wales to Escape the Nazis" (Honno Press, 2022)

42 mins; April 04, 2023

Jeremy Kagan, "The Intellect and the Exodus" (Maggid, 2018)

55 mins; April 03, 2023

Andrew D. Berns, "The Land Is Mine: Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the Renaissance" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

65 hours 48 mins; April 02, 2023

Ari Joskowicz, "Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust" (Princeton UP, 2023)

65 hours 53 mins; April 02, 2023

David Horgan, "Helmi's Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West" (U Nevada Press, 2021)

89 hours 6 mins; April 01, 2023

Philip Jenkins, "He Will Save You from the Deadly Pestilence: The Many Lives of Psalm 91" (Oxford UP, 2022)

29 mins; April 01, 2023

Eric Alterman, "We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel" (Basic Book, 2022)

65 hours 8 mins; March 30, 2023

Sara Koplik, "A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan" (Brill, 2015)

76 hours 13 mins; March 30, 2023

Suzanna Eibuszyc, "Memory Is Our Home: Loss and Remembering--Three Generations in Poland and Russia 1917-1960s" (Ibidem, 2022)

112 hours 34 mins; March 29, 2023

Roni Mikel-Arieli, "Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State: Holocaust Memory in South Africa from Apartheid to Democracy (1948-1994)" (de Gruyter, 2022)

135 hours 50 mins; March 28, 2023

Karen Baum Gordon, "The Last Letter: A Father's Struggle, a Daughter's Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust" (U Tennessee Press, 2021)

67 hours 27 mins; March 27, 2023

Kieron Pim, "Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth" (Granta Books, 2022)

61 hours 13 mins; March 26, 2023

Max Kaiser, "Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

84 hours 44 mins; March 21, 2023

Publishing Jewish Children's Books: A Chat with Joni Sussman

51 mins; March 19, 2023

Simon Parkin, "The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp" (Scribner, 2022)

67 hours 48 mins; March 18, 2023

Ellin Bessner, "Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II" (New Jewish Press, 2018)

58 mins; March 18, 2023

Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)

106 hours 27 mins; March 17, 2023

Book Talk 58: Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman

64 hours 10 mins; March 17, 2023

Philip W. Blood, "Birds of Prey: Hitler's Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland" (Ibidem Press, 2021)

68 hours 6 mins; March 13, 2023

Omer Bartov, "The Butterfly and the Axe" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2023)

66 hours 50 mins; March 10, 2023

Sharon Shalom, "From Sinai to Ethiopia: The Halakhic and Conceptual World of the Ethiopian Jews" (Gefen Books, 2016)

57 mins; March 08, 2023

The Sobibor and Treblinka Death Camps: A Discussion with Chris Webb

67 hours 50 mins; March 08, 2023

Kiril Feferman, "If We Had Wings We Would Fly to You: A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction 1941-42" (Academic Studies Press, 2020)

90 hours 2 mins; March 07, 2023

On Chaim Grade’s "The Yeshiva"

61 hours 58 mins; March 05, 2023

Jordan Gorfinkel, "The Koren Tanakh Graphic Novel: Esther" (Koren, 2023)

43 mins; March 04, 2023

Reuven Mohl, "Faith Fulfilled: Megillat Esther and Ma'ariv Evening Service for Purim" (Urim Publications, 2022)

43 mins; March 03, 2023

Francine Lazarus, "A Hidden Jewish Child from Belgium: Survival, Scars and Healing" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2017)

101 hours 43 mins; March 03, 2023

Measure for Measure Episode 2: Olives

19 mins; March 03, 2023

Kenneth R. Stow, "Anna and Tranquillo: Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2016)

86 hours 9 mins; February 28, 2023

Susan Weingarten, "Haroset: A Taste of Jewish History" (Toby Press, 2019)

49 mins; February 26, 2023

Ron Hirschbein and Amin Asfari, "Jews and Muslims in the White Supremacist Conspiratorial Imagination" (Routledge, 2023)

77 hours 47 mins; February 26, 2023

Alexandra Chiriac, "Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest" (de Gruyter, 2022)

70 hours 19 mins; February 25, 2023

Jonathan Homrighausen, "Planting Letters and Weaving Lines: The Song of Songs, and The Saint Johns Bible" (Liturgical Press, 2022)

45 mins; February 25, 2023

More on Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust

82 hours 20 mins; February 24, 2023

Sarah M. Zaides, "Tevye's Ottoman Daughter: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews at the End of Empire" (Libra Kitap, 2022)

67 hours 40 mins; February 24, 2023

Digging for Answers: The Archaeology of Jerusalem and the Politics of Archaeology

67 hours 16 mins; February 23, 2023

Peter Hayes, "Why? Explaining the Holocaust" (Norton, 2017)

63 hours 36 mins; February 22, 2023

Elżbieta Janicka and Michael Steinlauf, "This Was Not America: A Wrangle Through Jewish-Polish-American History" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2022)

89 hours 7 mins; February 22, 2023

Oren Kessler, "Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

86 hours 55 mins; February 21, 2023

Azzan Yadin-Israel, "Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

52 mins; February 20, 2023

Jonathan Rivett Robinson, "Markan Typology: Miracle, Scripture and Christology in Mark 4:35–6:45" (T&T Clark, 2022)

24 mins; February 20, 2023

David Arnovitz, "The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel: Exodus" (Koren, 2020)

42 mins; February 19, 2023

John D. Hosler, "Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace" (Yale UP, 2022)

48 mins; February 16, 2023

Rūta Vanagaitė and Efraim Zuroff, "Our People: Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)

55 mins; February 15, 2023

Rhiannon Graybill, "Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible" (Oxford UP, 2021)

51 mins; February 15, 2023

Daniel Lasker, "Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism" (Littman Library, 2022)

58 mins; February 14, 2023

Canadian Witnesses to the Horrors of the Holocaust

30 mins; February 13, 2023

Jacky Comforty, "The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust" (Lexington Books, 2021)

87 hours 43 mins; February 13, 2023

Iggerot Malkhei Rabbanan: Letters From Leading Torah Scholars to Melekh (Marc B.) Shapiro

35 mins; February 12, 2023

Golda Akhiezer, "Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism Among the Karaites of Eastern Europe" (Brill, 2017)

90 hours 13 mins; February 11, 2023

Alan Verskin, "Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni Through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe" (Stanford UP, 2023)

73 hours 29 mins; February 06, 2023

Jason Olson and James Goldberg, "The Burning Book" (Common Consent Press, 2022)

60 hours 46 mins; February 06, 2023

Rachel Adelman, "The Female Ruse: Women's Deception and Divine Sanction in the Hebrew Bible" (Sheffield Press, 2017)

29 mins; February 05, 2023

Rowan Dorin, "No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe" (Princeton UP, 2023)

50 mins; February 05, 2023

Michah Gottlieb, "The Jewish Reformation: Bible Translation and Middle-Class German Judaism As Spiritual Enterprise" (Oxford UP, 2021)

39 mins; February 04, 2023

M. M. Silver, "The History of Galilee, 1538-1949" (Lexington Books, 2022)

117 hours 20 mins; February 04, 2023

Geneviève Zubrzycki, "Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival" (Princeton UP, 2022)

71 hours 2 mins; February 03, 2023

Meir M. Bar-Asher, "Jews and the Qur'an" (Princeton UP, 2022)

70 hours 40 mins; February 01, 2023

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

96 hours 19 mins; February 01, 2023

Mikel Burley, "A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

58 mins; February 01, 2023

Andrea Dara Cooper, "Gendering Modern Jewish Thought" (Indiana UP, 2021)

62 hours 32 mins; January 31, 2023

Arthur Keefer, "Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life in the Ancient World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

47 mins; January 31, 2023

Chris Webb, "The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem, 2016)

40 mins; January 31, 2023

Mark A. Schneegurt, "Anthology of Religious Poetry from the Mexican Inquisition Trials of 16th-Century CryptoJews" (2020)

80 hours 7 mins; January 30, 2023

The Mesopotamian Connection: Comparing the Bible to Other Literature of the Ancient Near East

61 hours 25 mins; January 30, 2023

Menachem Brod, "In Search of Truth: Three Yeshiva Students on a Spiritual Journey" (BSD Publishers, 2022)

65 hours 31 mins; January 29, 2023

Apocalypse Past, Present, and Future: Thinking about the End in History and Culture

63 hours 30 mins; January 29, 2023

Radu Ioanid, "The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

83 hours 22 mins; January 28, 2023

Igor H. De Souza, "Rewriting Maimonides: Early Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed" (de Gruyter, 2018)

89 hours 42 mins; January 26, 2023

Silvia Nacamulli, "Jewish Flavours of Italy: A Family Cookbook" (Green Bean Books, 2022)

57 mins; January 25, 2023

Frank Wolff, "Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund" (Haymarket Books, 2021)

80 hours 37 mins; January 25, 2023

Progressive Souls: Religion and the Pursuit of a Just Society (Part 2)

24 mins; January 22, 2023

Progressive Souls: Religion and the Pursuit of a Just Society (Part 1)

27 mins; January 21, 2023

Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

73 hours 9 mins; January 20, 2023

Nothing Matters: About the Idea of "Emptiness"

27 mins; January 17, 2023

James M. Deem, "The Prisoners of Breendonk: Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp" (Mariner Books, 2020)

70 hours 23 mins; January 16, 2023

Elia Meghnagi, "Escape from Benghazi: Diary of an Imposter" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)

113 hours 26 mins; January 15, 2023

Donna Stein, "Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch" (Skira, 2022)

40 mins; January 14, 2023

Mordechai Schiffman, "Psyched for Torah" (Kodesh Press, 2022)

40 mins; January 13, 2023

Wout J. van Bekkum, "The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.)" (Brill, 2022)

79 hours 12 mins; January 12, 2023

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