New Books in Jewish Studies
Interview with Scholars of Judaism about their New Books
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Religion & Spirituality
Judaism
On the History and Evolution of Zionism
On today's episode of the New Books Network, we are ...
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Apr 22 2024 1h 32m
Steven Nadler, "Spinoza: A Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) was one of the most impor...
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Apr 22 2024 35m
Chris Webb, "The Sobibor Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem Verlag, 2017)
The Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination ...
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Apr 22 2024 1h 5m
John Tolan, "England's Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 202...
In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequ...
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Apr 22 2024 58m
Robert Rozett and Iael Nidam-Orvieto, "After So Much Pain and Anguish: First Letters After Liberation" (Yad Vashem,...
After So Much Pain and Anguish: First Letters After ...
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Apr 21 2024 55m
Stuart Halpern and Jacob Kupietzky, "The Promise of Liberty: A Passover Haggada" (Maggid, 2024)
In The Promise of Liberty: A Passover Haggada (Maggi...
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Apr 19 2024 17m
Debby Koren, "Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities Thro...
Debby Koren's book Responsa in a Historical Context:...
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Apr 18 2024 49m
Kerry Wallach, "Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist...
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Apr 16 2024 1h
Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of W...
Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Je...
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Apr 15 2024 1h 19m
Jae Hee Han, "Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
In Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near Ea...
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Apr 13 2024 1h 13m
Aidan Beatty and Dan O'Brien, "Irish Questions and Jewish Questions: Crossovers in Culture" (Syracuse UP, 2018)
The Irish and the Jews are two of the classic outlie...
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Apr 12 2024 1h 46m
Tzafrir Barzilay, "Poisoned Wells: Accusations, Persecution, and Minorities in Medieval Europe, 1321-1422" (U Penns...
Between 1348 and 1350, Jews throughout Europe were a...
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Apr 8 2024 1h
Gustavo Guzmán, "Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews: From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen"...
Gustavo Guzmán's Attitudes of the Chilean Right towa...
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Apr 7 2024 1h 45m
Sandra Fox, "The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America" (Stanford UP, 2023)
In the decades directly following the Holocaust, Ame...
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Apr 6 2024 48m
Michael LeFebvre, "Collections, Codes, and Torah: The Re-characterization of Israel's Written Law" (Bloomsbury, 201...
Scholars of biblical law widely hold that ancient Is...
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Apr 6 2024 17m
Paola Tartakoff, "Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391" (U Penns...
In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity ...
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Apr 2 2024 53m
Chiara Renzo, "Jewish Displaced Persons in Italy 1943-1951: Politics, Rehabilitation, Identity" (Routledge, 2023)
Chiara Renzo's book Jewish Displaced Persons in Ital...
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Mar 24 2024 36m
Jehanne Dubrow, "Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity" (U New Mexico Press, 2023)
What happens when beauty intersects with horror? In ...
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Mar 24 2024 24m
Kira Sirote, "Haftorah Unrolled: Weekly Insights from the Prophets" (2018)
Haftorah Unrolled explores the weekly readings from ...
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Mar 22 2024 51m
Shoshanna Lockshin and Efrayim Unterman, "The Devash Megillat Esther" (Hadar Press, 2024)
The Devash Megillat Esther (Hadar Press, 2024) inclu...
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Mar 21 2024 38m
Yaacov Nir, "Establishment and History of the Cyprus Detention Camps for Jewish Refugees (1946-1949)" (Cambridge Sc...
Yaacov Nir's Establishment and History of the Cyprus...
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Mar 19 2024 1h 4m
Dan Stone, "The Holocaust: An Unfinished History" (Mariner Books, 2023)
The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialized a...
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Mar 18 2024 1h 9m
Rachel Blumenthal, "Right to Reparations: The Claims Conference and Holocaust Survivors, 1951–1964" (Lexington, 202...
Right to Reparations: The Claims Conference and Holo...
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Mar 18 2024 39m
Rachel Gordan, "Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American" (Oxford UP, 2024)
The period immediately following World War II was an...
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Mar 18 2024 1h 3m
Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa, "The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles Dur...
World War II and the Holocaust have been the subject...
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Mar 17 2024 1h 14m