New Books in Jewish Studies

Judaism #103

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Ezra Glinter, "Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah" (Yale UP, 2024)
Jun 15, 2025 – 01:09:40
Semmy Stalhammer, "Codename Barber: My Father’s Story" (Albert Bonniers Publishers, 2007)
Jun 6, 2025 – 01:27:29
Dave Margoshes, "A Simple Carpenter" (Radiant Press, 2024)
Jun 6, 2025 – 55:27
Elisabeth Åsbrink "And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Family Torn Apart by War" (Other Press, 2020)
Jun 4, 2025 – 01:05:31
Tobias Brinkmann, "Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe" (Oxford UP, 2924)
Jun 3, 2025 – 01:34:29
Yonatan Y. Brafman, "Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jun 2, 2025 – 01:05:20
Adi Nester, "Unsettling Difference: Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish Identity" (Cornell UP, 2025)
May 30, 2025 – 01:11:50
Krista N. Dalton, "How Rabbis Became Experts: Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 28, 2025 – 55:14
Jan Borowicz, "Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders" (Routledge, 2024)
May 24, 2025 – 01:15:10
Yitzhak Conforti, "Zionism and Jewish Culture: A Study in the Origins of a National Movement" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
May 23, 2025 – 55:50
David Kraemer, "Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 22, 2025 – 01:02:37
Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism: An Emotional State" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
May 21, 2025 – 01:02:12
Z'ev Ben Shimon Halevi: "The Kabbalistic Tree of Life" and "The Anointed"
May 20, 2025 – 24:22
Yosie Levine, "Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate" (Littman Library, 2024)
May 19, 2025 – 41:43
Marc Katz, "Yochanan's Gamble: Judaism's Pragmatic Approach to Life" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
May 18, 2025 – 50:56
Michael A. Meyer, "Above All, We Are Jews: A Biography of Rabbi Alexander Schindler" (CCAR Press, 2025)
May 16, 2025 – 44:53
Joanna Rubin Dranger, "Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir" (Ten Speed Graphic, 2025)
May 15, 2025 – 33:56
Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)
May 14, 2025 – 49:51
Victoria Khiterer, "Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration" (Purdue UP, 2025)
May 11, 2025 – 01:39:28
Paul R. Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovskiĭ-Shtern, "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-existence" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
May 10, 2025 – 56:16
Katerina Kralova, "Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-46" (Brandeis UP, 2025)
May 9, 2025 – 01:24:12
Chris Webb and Artur Hojan, "The Chelmno Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem Press, 2019)
May 8, 2025 – 53:43
Nechama Birnbaum, "The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2021)
May 7, 2025 – 53:53
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
Haggadah Roundup
Apr 11, 2025 – 01:48:38
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
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

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