New Books in Jewish Studies

Judaism #103

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Lucy Adlington, "The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive" (HarperCollins, 2021)
May 5, 2025 – 01:11:34
Hasia R. Diner, "Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
May 4, 2025 – 01:13:38
David Resnick, "Empowered or Abused: The Bible's Plan to Stop Battlefield Rape and Reduce Sexual Abuse" (BfoT, 2025)
May 3, 2025 – 28:32
Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, "Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts" (Eerdmans, 2025)
May 1, 2025 – 01:11:57
Monika Amsler, "The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 30, 2025 – 01:06:42
Asa Simon Mittman, "Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Apr 25, 2025 – 01:06:22
Jerome Gellman, "The Problem of God in Jewish Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Apr 24, 2025 – 31:44
Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)
Apr 23, 2025 – 01:09:42
Ulf Zander, "Raoul Wallenberg: Life and Legacy" (Lund UP, 2024)
Apr 14, 2025 – 01:10:57
Nora Gold, "18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages" (Cherry Orchard, 2023)
Apr 13, 2025 – 48:45
Stefanie Fischer and Kim Wünschmann, "Oberbrechen: a German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 12, 2025 – 01:00:37
Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, "Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews During the Rif War (1909-27)" (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)
Apr 11, 2025 – 48:42
Haggadah Roundup
Apr 11, 2025 – 01:48:38
Enrico Fink, ed., "Shirat Hayam: The Song of the Sea" (Centro Primo Levi, 2023)
Apr 10, 2025 – 01:09:31
Andrew J. Viterbi, "Reflections of an Educator, Researcher and Entrepreneur" (Centro Primo Levi, 2016)
Apr 9, 2025 – 01:00:06
Karen A. Frenkel, "Family Treasures: Lost & Found" (Post Hill Press, 2025)
Apr 8, 2025 – 59:11
Orit Rozin, "Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 7, 2025 – 01:09:34
"Queer Jews, Queer Muslims" with Adi Saleem and Shanon Shah
Apr 6, 2025 – 01:08:43
Eli Rubin, "Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Apr 5, 2025 – 01:16:42
My First Tanakh Stories Set (4vs.): Avraham, Miriam, Eliyahu, Ruth
Apr 4, 2025 – 42:32
Dariel U. González García, "Dos miradas: Israel and Judaism in Puerto Rico" (2024)
Apr 1, 2025 – 01:13:25
Jeremy Brown, "The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 31, 2025 – 01:03:17
Yaron Ayalon, "Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy" (Brill, 2024)
Mar 30, 2025 – 43:34
Hannan Hever, "Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Mar 29, 2025 – 56:23
Mikhail Goldis, "Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
Mar 28, 2025 – 48:20
Lucy Adlington, "Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust" (HarperCollins, 2025)
Mar 27, 2025 – 01:06:43
Joanne Miyang Cho, et al., "German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930-1950" (Routledge, 2025)
Mar 26, 2025 – 01:06:51
Thomas P. Bernstein, "Holocaust: German History and Our Half-Jewish Family" (Cherry Orchard, 2024)
Mar 24, 2025 – 01:27:19
"T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism" (T&T Clark, 2019)
Mar 21, 2025 – 31:09
Ofra Amihay, "The People of the Book and the Camera: Photography in the Hebrew Novel" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
Mar 20, 2025 – 01:36:13
Kobi Kabalek, "Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
Mar 19, 2025 – 58:12
Laurel Leff, "Well Worth Saving: American Universities' Life-And-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe" (Yale UP, 2019)
Mar 18, 2025 – 01:19:25
Simon Rabinovitch, "Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History" (Yale UP, 2024)
Mar 17, 2025 – 01:21:44
Ariel Evan Mayse, "Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Mar 16, 2025 – 53:23
Ken Frieden, "Travels in Translation: Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction" (Syracuse UP, 2016)
Mar 11, 2025 – 01:34:17
Moshe Tzvi Wieder, "Siddur from Its Sources" (Wieder Press, 2023)
Mar 11, 2025 – 57:14
Ethan Kleinberg, "Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Mar 8, 2025 – 01:21:20
Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)
Mar 6, 2025 – 46:52
Stefan Cristian Ionescu, "Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 5, 2025 – 01:21:28
Victoria Khiterer, "Jewish Pogroms in Kiev During the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920" (Edwin Mellen, 2015)
Mar 1, 2025 – 01:23:31
Irina Rebrova, "Re-Constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory: The Case of the North Caucasus" (de Gruyter, 2020)
Feb 27, 2025 – 55:45
Bernard McGinn, "Modern Mystics: An Introduction" (Herder & Herder, 2023)
Feb 25, 2025 – 01:44:30
Blanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
Feb 24, 2025 – 01:08:12
Malka Z. Simkovich, "Letters from Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity" (Eisenbrauns, 2024)
Feb 23, 2025 – 49:54
Shay A. Pilnik, "The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War" (Purdue UP, 2025)
Feb 22, 2025 – 01:30:54
Amit Levy, "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
Feb 21, 2025 – 01:10:52
Noa Shashar, "The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
Feb 21, 2025 – 42:42
Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Feb 19, 2025 – 57:12
Saulius Suziedelis, "Crisis, War, and the Holocaust in Lithuania" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
Feb 14, 2025 – 01:09:30
Jay Prosser, "Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, a Son Returns" (Black Spring Press, 2024)
Feb 14, 2025 – 56:50

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