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Beverley Chalmers, "Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule" (Grosvenor House, 2015)
60 hours 28 mins; July 15, 2022
Evan Berry, "Climate Politics and the Power of Religion" (Indiana UP, 2022)
57 mins; July 14, 2022
Yehudah Mirsky, "Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
87 hours 30 mins; July 13, 2022
John F. Sears, "Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish Plight, and the Founding of Israel" (Purdue UP, 2021)
102 hours 2 mins; July 12, 2022
Tova Ganzel, "Ezekiel: From Destruction to Restoration" (Maggid, 2020)
35 mins; July 12, 2022
Matt Reingold, "Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis" (Lexington, 2022)
57 mins; July 11, 2022
Robin Dunbar, "How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures" (Oxford UP, 2022)
65 hours 11 mins; July 07, 2022
Vered Noam, "Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature" (Oxford UP, 2018)
52 mins; July 06, 2022
Yehudah Mirsky, "Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution" (Yale UP, 2014)
55 mins; July 04, 2022
Christopher Silver, "Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2022)
104 hours 31 mins; July 04, 2022
Archie T. Wright, "Satan and the Problem of Evil: From the Bible to the Early Church Fathers" (Fortress Press, 2022)
45 mins; June 28, 2022
Marc David Baer, "German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus" (Columbia UP, 2020)
48 mins; June 24, 2022
Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press/Profile Books, 2022)
69 hours 48 mins; June 24, 2022
Nathan A. Kurz, "Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
53 mins; June 22, 2022
W. H. Bellinger Jr., "Introducing Old Testament Theology" (Baker Academic, 2021)
25 mins; June 20, 2022
Jerry Z. Muller, "Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes" (Princeton UP, 2022)
68 hours 29 mins; June 20, 2022
Menachem Kaiser, "Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure" (Mariner Books, 2021)
71 hours 20 mins; June 14, 2022
The Future of Religion: A Conversation with Robin Dunbar
49 mins; June 14, 2022
Denisa NesƄåkovå and Katja Grosse-Sommer, "If This Is a Woman: Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
49 mins; June 13, 2022
Paul Lerner et al., "Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
65 hours 55 mins; June 13, 2022
David de Jong, "Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties" (Mariner Books, 2022)
53 mins; June 13, 2022
Guy MacLean Rogers, "For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews against Romans, 66-74 CE" (Yale UP, 2022)
65 hours 16 mins; June 08, 2022
Dainy Bernstein, "Artifacts of Orthodox Jewish Childhoods" (Ben Yehuda Press, 2022)
73 hours 19 mins; June 07, 2022
On the Myth of Divine Chosenness
54 mins; June 07, 2022
Olga Bertelsen, "In the Labyrinth of the KGB: Ukraine's Intelligentsia in the 1960s-1970s" (Lexington Books, 2022)
55 mins; June 06, 2022
Matthew Mark Silver, "Zionism and the Melting Pot: Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
67 hours 23 mins; June 03, 2022
Nehemia Polen, "Stop, Look, Listen: Celebrating Shabbos Through a Spiritual Lens" (Koren, 2022)
46 mins; June 02, 2022
Jeffrey Herf, "Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
35 mins; June 02, 2022
Mark A. Raider and Gary Phillip Zola, "New Perspectives in American Jewish History: A Documentary Tribute to Jonathan D. Sarna" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
48 mins; June 02, 2022
Richard G. Marks, "Jewish Approaches to Hinduism: A History of Ideas from Judah Ha-Levi to Jacob Sapir (12th-19th Centuries)" (Routledge, 2021)
51 mins; June 02, 2022
Jason Sion Mokhtarian, "Medicine in the Talmud: Natural and Supernatural Therapies Between Magic and Science" (U California Press, 2022)
54 mins; June 02, 2022
John K. Roth and Carol Rittner, "The Memory of Goodness: Eva Fleischner and Her Contributions to Holocaust Studies" (NCCHE, 2022)
76 hours 39 mins; June 01, 2022
Chiara Camarda et al., "The Venice Ghetto: A Memory Space That Travels" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
31 mins; May 27, 2022
Yechiel Weizman, "Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2022)
39 mins; May 26, 2022
Maksim Goldenshteyn, "So They Remember: A Jewish Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
47 mins; May 26, 2022
Howard Mortman, "When Rabbis Bless Congress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayers on Capitol Hill" (Cherry Orchard, 2020)
59 mins; May 25, 2022
K. Friedla and M. Nesselrodt, "Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939-1959): History and Memory of Deportation, Exile, and Survival" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
45 mins; May 25, 2022
Daniel C. Matt, "Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation" (Yale UP, 2022)
32 mins; May 24, 2022
Peter Kreeft, "Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs" (Ignatius Press, 2016)
34 mins; May 20, 2022
Maria Chiara Rioli, "A Liminal Church: Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946–1956" (Brill, 2020)
51 mins; May 13, 2022
Louis Fishman, "Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914: Claiming the Homeland" (Edinburgh UP. 2021)
62 hours 20 mins; May 10, 2022
Jaclyn Granick, "International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
51 mins; May 06, 2022
Christine Leuenberger and Izhak Schnell, "The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine" (Oxford UP, 2020)
55 mins; May 04, 2022
Moshe Shokeid, "Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus" (Berghahn, 2020)
57 mins; May 03, 2022
Sebastian Huebel, "Fighter, Worker, and Family Man: German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933-1941" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
68 hours 20 mins; May 02, 2022
Steve A. Wiggins, "Nightmares with the Bible: The Good Book and Cinematic Demons" (Fortress, 2020)
56 mins; April 27, 2022
Tomer Persico, "In God’s Image: The Making of the Modern World" (Yediot Aharonot, 2021)
61 hours 23 mins; April 25, 2022
Yiddish in Europe
17 mins; April 20, 2022
Charles Dellheim, "Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
106 hours 10 mins; April 19, 2022
Sigal Naor Perelman, "Machluta" (Pardes, 2020)
63 hours 19 mins; April 19, 2022
Jeffrey Saks and Shalom Carmy, "Agnon’s Tales of the Land of Israel" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
55 mins; April 14, 2022
Michael Carasik, "The Commentators' Bible: The Rubin JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot" (Jewish Publication Society, 2018)
41 mins; April 13, 2022
Anthony Shaw and Giora Goodman, "Hollywood and Israel: A History" (Columbia UP, 2022)
53 mins; April 08, 2022
Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers, "American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York" (Princeton UP, 2021)
72 hours 15 mins; April 05, 2022
On Leaving Hasidism
56 mins; March 31, 2022
Andrew Lawler, "Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City" (Doubleday, 2021)
49 mins; March 28, 2022
Elisheva Carlebach and Deborah Dash Moore, "The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization (6): Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880" (Yale UP, 2019)
63 hours 29 mins; March 22, 2022
Ken Krimstein, "When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
43 mins; March 22, 2022
Martin Shuster, "How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism" (Indiana UP, 2021)
40 mins; March 22, 2022
Dan Grunfeld, "By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream" (Triumph Books, 2022)
51 mins; March 21, 2022
Helene Meyers, "Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
50 mins; March 11, 2022
Brett Kahr, "Freud's Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis" (Confer Books, 2022)
74 hours 21 mins; March 11, 2022
Jeffery D. Long and Michael G. Long, "Nonviolence in the World's Religions: A Concise Introduction" (Routledge, 2021)
68 hours 36 mins; March 10, 2022
Racheli Haliva, "Isaac Polqar: A Jewish Philosopher or a Philosopher and a Jew? (Walter de Gruyter, 2020)
60 hours 39 mins; March 07, 2022
Jadwiga Biskupska, "Survivors: Warsaw under Nazi Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
61 hours 34 mins; March 04, 2022
Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter, "The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture" (Harvard UP, 2021)
75 hours 44 mins; March 03, 2022
Brian Ogren, "Kabbalah and the Founding of America: The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World" (NYU Press, 2021)
52 mins; March 03, 2022
Gardner Thompson, "Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel" (Saqi, 2020)
44 mins; March 02, 2022
Kei Hiruta, "Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity" (Princeton UP, 2021)
51 mins; February 28, 2022
Silvia Goldbaum Tarabini Fracapane, "The Jews of Denmark in the Holocaust: Life and Death in Theresienstadt Ghetto" (Routledge, 2020)
59 mins; February 28, 2022
Erica Brown, "Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile" (Maggid, 2020)
49 mins; February 25, 2022
Joanna Sliwa, "Jewish Childhood in KrakĂłw: A Microhistory of the Holocaust" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
84 hours 35 mins; February 25, 2022
Haim Jachter, "Bridging Traditions: Demystifying Differences Between Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews" (Maggid, 2022)
25 mins; February 24, 2022
Jon Butler, "God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan" (Harvard UP, 2020)
64 hours 49 mins; February 24, 2022
Allison Schachter, "Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
55 mins; February 24, 2022
Exploring Autonomy: A History of Jewish Self-Governance in Eastern Europe
20 mins; February 23, 2022
Catherine Ehrlich, "Irma's Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage" (She Writes Press, 2021)
55 mins; February 21, 2022
Markus Zehnder, "The Bible and Immigration: A Critical and Empirical Reassessment" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
58 mins; February 17, 2022
Michael Marmur and David Ellenson, "American Jewish Thought Since 1934: Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief" (Brandeis UP, 2020)
49 mins; February 16, 2022
Manoela Carpenedo, "Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus: Judaizing Evangelicals in Brazil" (Oxford UP, 2021)
68 hours 49 mins; February 14, 2022
Federica Francesconi, "Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
51 mins; February 14, 2022
Yakov Nagen, "Be, Become, Bless: Jewish Spirituality Between East and West" (Maggid, 2019)
29 mins; February 09, 2022
Patrick Hicks, "In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program" (Stephen F. Austin UP, 2020)
25 mins; February 08, 2022
Ola Hnatiuk, "Courage and Fear" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2019)
63 hours 0 mins; February 07, 2022
Susan Gilson Miller, "Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2021)
80 hours 6 mins; February 03, 2022
Rich Brownstein, "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" (McFarland, 2021)
47 mins; February 01, 2022
Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers, "American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York" (Princeton UP, 2022)
61 hours 18 mins; February 01, 2022
Mir Yarfitz, "Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
72 hours 20 mins; January 28, 2022
The 15 Best Films about the Holocaust
73 hours 14 mins; January 27, 2022
Samuel J. Spinner, "Jewish Primitivism" (Stanford UP, 2021)
77 hours 21 mins; January 26, 2022
Andrew Porwancher, "The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton" (Princeton UP, 2021)
41 mins; January 26, 2022
Karen Rostoger-Gruber, "The Family (and Frog! ) Haggadah" (Behrman House, 2017)
52 mins; January 25, 2022
Jason Lustig, "A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
59 mins; January 24, 2022
Yakir Englander, "The Male Body in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Theology" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
59 mins; January 17, 2022
Marc Caplan, "Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism" (Indiana UP, 2021)
70 hours 24 mins; January 13, 2022
Anat Plocker, "The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland: Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties" (Indiana UP, 2022)
70 hours 28 mins; January 12, 2022
Gideon Sapir and Daniel Statman, "State and Religion in Israel: A Philosophical-Legal Inquiry" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
58 mins; January 11, 2022
Melissa Stoller, "Sadie’s Shabbat Stories" (Spork, 2020)
57 mins; January 11, 2022
Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
130 hours 13 mins; January 05, 2022
Rich Brownstein, "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" (McFarland, 2021)
66 hours 6 mins; December 31, 2021
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