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David Z. Moster, "Etrog: How A Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol" (Palgrave Pivot, 2018)
43 mins; January 11, 2023
Sarah Imhoff, "The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist" (Duke UP, 2022)
67 hours 21 mins; January 11, 2023
Gil Hovav, "Candies from Heaven" (Green Bean Books, 2023)
80 hours 39 mins; January 08, 2023
Joshua Kulp and Jason Rogoff, "Reconstructing the Talmud: An Introduction to the Academic Study of Rabbinic Literature" (Hadar Press, 2014)
65 hours 0 mins; January 08, 2023
Melila Hellner-Eshed, "Seekers of the Face: Secrets of the Idra Rabba (the Great Assembly) of the Zohar" (Stanford UP. 2021)
69 hours 38 mins; January 04, 2023
Aaron W. Hughes, "Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast" (NYU Press, 2016)
72 hours 1 min; January 03, 2023
Nomads in the Bible
29 mins; December 31, 2022
Julia Elsky, "Writing Occupation: Jewish Émigré Voices in Wartime France" (Stanford UP, 2020)
75 hours 25 mins; December 28, 2022
Who Wrote the Bible? Sorting out the History of the Bible We Have.
55 mins; December 27, 2022
HÊlène Jawhara Piùer, "Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
58 mins; December 27, 2022
Ron Kronish, "Profiles in Peace: Voices of Peacebuilders in the Midst of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" (2022)
46 mins; December 27, 2022
Ruth Tsoffar, "Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture" (Routledge, 2019)
112 hours 41 mins; December 24, 2022
Tzafrir Barzilay, "Poisoned Wells: Accusations, Persecution, and Minorities in Medieval Europe, 1321-1422" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
57 mins; December 24, 2022
Kenneth B. Moss, "An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland" (Harvard UP, 2021)
64 hours 11 mins; December 24, 2022
Richard Brian Miller, "Why Study Religion?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
44 mins; December 20, 2022
Ariana Huberman. "Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
79 hours 23 mins; December 20, 2022
Karma Ben-Johanan, "Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II" (Harvard UP, 2022)
63 hours 33 mins; December 20, 2022
Zvi Preigerzon, "Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2022)
129 hours 32 mins; December 20, 2022
Kiril Feferman, "The Holocaust in the Crimea and the North Caucasus" (Yad Vashem, 2016)
132 hours 50 mins; December 17, 2022
Beverley Chalmers, "Betrayed: Child Sex Abuse in the Holocaust" (Grosvenor House, 2020)
64 hours 24 mins; December 15, 2022
Daniel Gross. "A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire" (Radius Book Group, 2022)
61 hours 34 mins; December 14, 2022
Marla Segol, "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
57 mins; December 12, 2022
Joanna Newman, "Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
66 hours 17 mins; December 12, 2022
On "Genesis"
37 mins; December 07, 2022
Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, "Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950" (Stanford UP, 2022)
64 hours 38 mins; December 06, 2022
Jay Michaelson, "The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth" (Oxford UP, 2022)
65 hours 8 mins; December 06, 2022
Gabriel Polley, "Palestine in the Victorian Age: Colonial Encounters in the Holy Land" (I. B. Tauris, 2022)
67 hours 22 mins; December 05, 2022
Yochai Ataria, "Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik: The Map and the Territory" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
53 mins; December 05, 2022
Shaul Bartal and Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer, "Hamas and Ideology: Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qara?awi on the Jews, Zionism and Israel" (Routledge, 2017)
31 mins; December 04, 2022
Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
44 mins; December 01, 2022
James Yansen, "Daughter Zion's Trauma: A Trauma Informed Reading of Lamentations" (Gorgias Press, 2019)
165 hours 12 mins; November 30, 2022
The Future of Religious Studies: A Conversation with Russell McCutcheon
76 hours 37 mins; November 28, 2022
Jonathan Rosen and Henry Herz, "Coming of Age: 13 B'nai Mitvah Stories" (Albert Whitman & Company, 2022)
50 mins; November 28, 2022
Moshe Koppel, "Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures" (Maggid, 2020)
48 mins; November 25, 2022
Joseph McBride, "Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
87 hours 11 mins; November 24, 2022
Eli Gumener, "A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir Of Sorrow" (Slavica, 2022)
122 hours 46 mins; November 23, 2022
Books, Antisemitism, and a Viral Tweet: A Conversation with Library Director Susan Kusel
64 hours 44 mins; November 22, 2022
Samuel J. Levine, "Was Yosef on the Spectrum?: Understanding Joseph Through Torah, Midrash, and Classical Jewish Sources" (Urim Publications, 2018)
64 hours 3 mins; November 18, 2022
Boruch Twersky, "From Moav to Mashiach" (Menucha Publishers, 2022)
16 mins; November 18, 2022
Michael Frank, "One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
60 hours 3 mins; November 17, 2022
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)
45 mins; November 14, 2022
Ephraim (Alexander) Kholmyansky, "The Voice of Silence: The Story of the Jewish Underground in the USSR" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
110 hours 25 mins; November 10, 2022
J. Richard Middleton, "Abraham's Silence: The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God" (Baker Academic, 2021)
60 hours 1 min; November 09, 2022
Sarah Ifft Decker, "The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities" (Pennsylvania State, 2022)
46 mins; November 07, 2022
Alan Verskin, "A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide--a Translation of Hayyim Habshush's Travelogue" (Stanford UP, 2019)
63 hours 21 mins; October 31, 2022
Rachel Aumiller, "A Touch of Doubt: On Haptic Scepticism" (de Gruyter, 2021)
84 hours 59 mins; October 27, 2022
John Jeffries Martin, "A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2022)
58 mins; October 27, 2022
Rachel Schreiber, "Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration" (Temple UP, 2021)
84 hours 47 mins; October 25, 2022
Sustainable Agriculture in the Global South: A Religious Response to the Global Food Crisis
46 mins; October 25, 2022
Ela Gezen et al., "Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
62 hours 40 mins; October 21, 2022
David Weinfeld, "An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism" (Cornell UP, 2022)
63 hours 24 mins; October 18, 2022
P. De Vries, "The Kābôd of Yhwh in the Old Testament: With Particular Reference to the Book of Ezekiel" (Brill, 2015)
30 mins; October 17, 2022
Eran Kaplan, "Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
64 hours 10 mins; October 11, 2022
Warren Klein et al., "Be Fruitful! The Etrog in Jewish Art, Culture, and History" (Mineged, 2022)
54 mins; October 07, 2022
Angela Costley, "Creation and Christ: An Exploration of the Topic of Creation in the Epistle to the Hebrews" (Mohr Siebeck, 2021)
36 mins; October 07, 2022
Ion Popa, "The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust" (Indiana UP, 2017)
122 hours 16 mins; October 03, 2022
Aviva Ben-Ur, "Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
54 mins; September 30, 2022
Reeva Spector Simon, "The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa: The Impact of World War II" (Routledge, 2019)
22 mins; September 28, 2022
Andreas Hackl, "The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv" (Indiana UP, 2022)
63 hours 0 mins; September 27, 2022
NBN Classic: Paul Hanebrink, "A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism" (Harvard UP, 2018)
37 mins; September 25, 2022
NBN Classic: Marc Dollinger, "Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s" (Brandeis UP, 2018)
31 mins; September 25, 2022
NBN Classic: Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, "Holiness and Transgression Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth" (ASP, 2017)
74 hours 28 mins; September 24, 2022
NBN Classic: Alexander Gendler, "Khurbm 1914-1922: Prelude to the Holocaust" (Varda Books, 2019)
69 hours 56 mins; September 24, 2022
Frederick Beiser, "Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Biography" (Oxford UP, 2018)
56 mins; September 23, 2022
Dario Miccoli, "A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean" (Indiana UP, 2022)
69 hours 51 mins; September 22, 2022
Corinne E. Blackmer, "Queering Anti-Zionism: Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
32 mins; September 19, 2022
David Bashevkin, "Sin•a•gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
61 hours 7 mins; September 19, 2022
Sara Ronis, "Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia" (U California Press, 2022)
64 hours 30 mins; September 19, 2022
Sasha Senderovich, "How the Soviet Jew Was Made" (Harvard UP, 2022)
88 hours 57 mins; September 14, 2022
Tamar Biala, "Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash" (Brandeis UP, 2022)
61 hours 12 mins; September 13, 2022
Book Talk 55: Courtney B. Hodrick and Amir Eshel on Hannah Arendt's "Rachel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman"
91 hours 6 mins; September 12, 2022
Kimberley Czajkowski and Benedikt Eckhardt, "Herod in History: Nicolaus of Damascus and the Augustan Context" (Oxford UP, 2021)
90 hours 24 mins; September 12, 2022
Seth M. Ehorn, "Exodus in the New Testament" (T&T Clark, 2022)
35 mins; September 09, 2022
Tilde Rosmer, "The Islamic Movement in Israel" (U Texas Press, 2022)
80 hours 13 mins; September 07, 2022
Michael Engel, "Elijah Del Medigo and Paduan Aristotelianism: Investigating the Human Intellect" (Bloomsbury, 2016)
79 hours 53 mins; September 05, 2022
Manuel Duarte de Oliveira, "Humanity Divided: Martin Buber and the Challenges of Being Chosen" (de Gruyter, 2021)
44 mins; September 02, 2022
Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press, 2022)
51 mins; September 01, 2022
Matti Friedman, "Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai" (Spiegel & Grau, 2022)
64 hours 4 mins; August 30, 2022
Ben Ackerman, "Open When You Are: A Mystical Novel" (2016)
17 mins; August 30, 2022
Emily Michelson, "Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
47 mins; August 29, 2022
On Jewish Sexual Ethics
36 mins; August 25, 2022
Philip Hollander, "From Schlemiel to Sabra: Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature" (Indiana UP, 2019)
127 hours 15 mins; August 25, 2022
Yael Halevi-Wise, "The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua" (Penn State UP, 2020)
91 hours 33 mins; August 24, 2022
Stu Halpern, "Esther in America" (Maggid, 2020)
34 mins; August 23, 2022
Matthew Mark Silver, "The History of Galilee, 47 BCE to 1260 CE: From Josephus and Jesus to the Crusades" (Lexington Books, 2021)
65 hours 30 mins; August 12, 2022
On Sholem Aleichem’s "The Tevye Stories"
25 mins; August 12, 2022
Alexander Green, "Power and Progress: Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History" (SUNY Press, 2019)
68 hours 45 mins; August 11, 2022
Ari D. Kahn, "The Crowns on the Letters: Essays on the Aggada and the Lives of the Sages" (OU Press, 2020)
51 mins; August 10, 2022
Jason A. Staples, "The Idea of 'Israel' in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
33 mins; August 08, 2022
Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, "The Bible with and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently" (HarperOne, 2020)
66 hours 37 mins; August 03, 2022
On Thomas of Monmouth's "The Life and Passion of William of Norwich"
30 mins; August 03, 2022
Wayne Allen, "Thinking about Good and Evil: Jewish Views from Antiquity to Modernity" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
63 hours 42 mins; August 03, 2022
Yonatan Neril and Leo Dee, "Eco Bible: An Ecological Commentary on Genesis and Exodus" (ICSD, 2021)
60 hours 28 mins; July 29, 2022
David Konstan, "The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
61 hours 32 mins; July 28, 2022
Culturally Competent Health Care, Equality in Health Care: The Case of Muslims and Jews in the UK
29 mins; July 27, 2022
Hanan Hammad, "Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
84 hours 24 mins; July 27, 2022
Tova Ganzel, "Ezekiel's Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context" (de Gruyter, 2021)
44 mins; July 25, 2022
Giore Etzion, "The Routledge Introductory Course in Modern Hebrew" (Routledge, 2019)
23 mins; July 22, 2022
Elliott Rabin, "The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
59 mins; July 22, 2022
Francine Friedman, "Like Salt for Bread: The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Brill, 2021)
86 hours 59 mins; July 20, 2022
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