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New Books in Jewish Studies

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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

Episodes

Sep 16, 2026 · not_requested

Giuseppe Motta, "Jewish Refugees and the International Community Between the Two World Wars: Beyond the State" (Routledge, 2026)

Duration seconds: 1946
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Sep 15, 2026 · not_requested

Anthony Julius, "Abraham: The First Jew" (Yale UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 1722
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Sep 12, 2026 · not_requested

Joseph G. Rosenstein, "Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers): The Big Picture" (Academic Studies Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2886
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Sep 12, 2026 · not_requested

Joseph G. Rosenstein, "Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers): The Big Picture" (Academic Studies Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3111
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Sep 8, 2026 · not_requested

Daniela Gerson, "The Wanderers: A Story of Exile, Survival, and Unexpected Love in the Shadow of World War II" (Grand Central Publishing, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3742
Source: https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/religion-faith/jewish-studies/

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Sep 6, 2026 · not_requested

An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland

Duration seconds: 3630
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Sep 5, 2026 · not_requested

Agnes Mueller, "Holocaust Migration in German Jewish Literatures" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3131
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Sep 2, 2026 · not_requested

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in Court: The Bern Trial (1933-1935) and the "Antisemitic International"

Duration seconds: 4080
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Aug 29, 2026 · not_requested

Educating for an Uncertain Future in Interwar Poland

Duration seconds: 3412
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Aug 28, 2026 · not_requested

Encore - Shai Lavi, "Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political and Empirical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Duration seconds: 3032
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Aug 25, 2026 · not_requested

Musical Pripetshik: Lyrics and Melodies of Traditional Yiddish Folksongs

Duration seconds: 3552
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Aug 24, 2026 · not_requested

Sabrina Inowlocki, "Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 5036
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Aug 23, 2026 · not_requested

Jacqueline Vayntrub, "Body Language: Voice, Embodiment, and Textuality in the Hebrew Bible" (Yale UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2972
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Aug 22, 2026 · not_requested

Denialism: Polish Style

Duration seconds: 4148
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Aug 21, 2026 · not_requested

Emile Chabal, "The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian" (Harvard UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 5436
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Aug 18, 2026 · not_requested

A Very Jewish Christmas: When Jesus Spoke Yiddish

Duration seconds: 4254
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Aug 16, 2026 · not_requested

Shimon Redlich, "Bridge Builder: My Life Since the Holocaust" (Academic Studies Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2475
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Aug 15, 2026 · not_requested

James Loeffler, "Exceptional Hatred: Antisemitism and the Fight over Free Speech in Modern America" (Metropolitan Books, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3579
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Aug 15, 2026 · not_requested

Are We In The Midst Of A Yiddish Renaissance?

Duration seconds: 3987
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Aug 15, 2026 · not_requested

Zvi Yehuda and Marian Scheuer Sofaer, "The Expulsion of Jews from Iraq, 20th Century: The Agonies of Redemption" (Brill, 2024)

Duration seconds: 2950
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Aug 14, 2026 · not_requested

Sarah Ellen Zarrow, "Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891–1941" (Cornell UP, 2025.)

Duration seconds: 3658
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Aug 13, 2026 · not_requested

Yigal Levin, "The Chronicles of David and Solomon: 1 Chronicles 10–2 Chronicles 9: A New Translation and Commentary " (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Duration seconds: 1971
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Aug 12, 2026 · not_requested

In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Yiddish Memories of Small-Town Jewish Life in Ukraine

Duration seconds: 3595
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Aug 11, 2026 · not_requested

Eckart Otto, "Max Weber's Studies of Ancient Judaism: The Historical Foundation for a Theory of the Modern Age" (Mohr Siebeck, 2002)

Duration seconds: 2015
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Aug 10, 2026 · not_requested

Eckart Otto, "Deuteronomy in the Pentateuch and the Hexateuch: Studies of the Literary History of the Pentateuch and the Hexateuch within the Framework of Deuteronomy" (Mohr Siebeck, 2000)

Duration seconds: 2327
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Aug 8, 2026 · not_requested

Deborah Barer, "Going Off Script: Improvisational Judgment in the Talmud" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2883
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Aug 8, 2026 · not_requested

Russia’s Jews in World War I

Duration seconds: 3440
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Aug 7, 2026 · not_requested

Gianluca Fantoni, "Soldiers, Angels, and Avengers: A History of the Jewish Brigade" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3918
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Jul 13, 2026 · not_requested

Heidegger in Ruins

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Jul 13, 2026 · not_requested

Jeffrey A. Marx, "Jewish Firebugs: Arson and Antisemitism from the Civil War to World War I" (NYU Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2307
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Jul 10, 2026 · not_requested

Yiddish Tangos and Klezmer Mambos

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Jul 8, 2026 · not_requested

Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages

Duration seconds: 3506
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Jul 6, 2026 · not_requested

Lila Corwin Berman, "Who Is American? Belonging and the Question of Jewish Citizenship" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3802
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Jul 5, 2026 · not_requested

Molly Crabapple, "Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund" (Random House, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3545
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Jul 4, 2026 · not_requested

Jonathan L. Friedmann, "Chai Noon: Jews and the Cinematic Wild West" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)

Duration seconds: 4283
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Jul 3, 2026 · not_requested

Max Weinreich and the Meaning of Yiddish

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Jul 1, 2026 · not_requested

Good Goy, Bad Goy: The Portrayal of Gentiles in Sketches from the London Yiddish Press

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Jun 29, 2026 · not_requested

The 'Tsenerene': The Most Popular Yiddish Book in History

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Jun 25, 2026 · not_requested

The Jewish Press Today

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Jun 24, 2026 · not_requested

Antizionism as a Distinct Anti-Jewish Bigotry with Adam Louis-Klein

Duration seconds: 1877
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Jun 22, 2026 · not_requested

A Very Jewish Christmas: Jesus and Shabbtai Zvi, from Heretic to Hero

Duration seconds: 3865
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Jun 20, 2026 · not_requested

Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age

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Jun 18, 2026 · not_requested

European Jews in the 21st Century

Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6179325904.mp3

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Jun 17, 2026 · not_requested

Samantha Ellis, "Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture" (Pegasus Books, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2978
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Jun 17, 2026 · not_requested

Great Minds in Despair

Duration seconds: 2739
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Jun 17, 2026 · not_requested

Adrian Ciani, "Contesting Zion: The Vatican, American Catholics, and the Partition of Palestine" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3446
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Jun 16, 2026 · not_requested

Jewish Identity in Lithuania Today

Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8449168501.mp3

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Jun 15, 2026 · not_requested

Brook Wilensky-Lanford, "A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2746
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Jun 14, 2026 · not_requested

The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust

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Jun 13, 2026 · not_requested

The Legacy of Chaim Grade

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Jun 12, 2026 · not_requested

Stephen Spector, "God and the First Families: Parenting, Trauma, and Healing in the Book of Genesis" (Jewish Publication Society, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2558
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Jun 9, 2026 · not_requested

Matti Friedman, "Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe" (Spiegel & Grau, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2097
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Jun 9, 2026 · not_requested

Christopher D. Stanley, "A Ram for Mars" (NFB Publishing, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3510
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Jun 1, 2026 · not_requested

Homes of the Past

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May 29, 2026 · not_requested

Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski

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May 24, 2026 · not_requested

Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America

Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6751155890.mp3

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May 22, 2026 · not_requested

Ruth Balint, "Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe" (Cornell UP, 2021)

Duration seconds: 3251
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May 22, 2026 · not_requested

Ellen Levitt, "Former Synagogues of the United States: Looking at Buildings That Once Housed Synagogues, Schools, and Other Jewish Institutions" (Resource Publications, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3731
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK4632324532.mp3

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May 20, 2026 · not_requested

Rachel Deblinger, "Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust" (Indiana UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3661
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May 19, 2026 · not_requested

"My Heart is in the East": How Yiddish Speakers Moved to the East

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May 18, 2026 · not_requested

In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust

Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK4630718021.mp3

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May 16, 2026 · not_requested

Under the Tenement Rooftops: Immigrant and Migrant Families in New York

Duration seconds: 3838
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May 13, 2026 · not_requested

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos

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May 11, 2026 · not_requested

Ishay Rosen-Zvi, "How to Read Mishnah and Midrash: An Introduction to Early Rabbinic Literature" (U California Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3612
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May 11, 2026 · not_requested

The YIVO Sound Archive at 40: A Celebration

Duration seconds: 3790
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May 10, 2026 · not_requested

Nazi-Looted Art and Archives: Recovering and Preserving Jewish Culture

Duration seconds: 5511
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May 10, 2026 · not_requested

Justin Michael Reed, "The Injustice of Noah's Curse" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 2011
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May 9, 2026 · not_requested

Gideon Reuveni, "The Great Repair: Emotions, Memory, and the German–Jewish Settlement after the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 4073
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May 8, 2026 · not_requested

Jewish Anarchist Women 1920–1950: The Politics of Sexuality

Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2169655202.mp3

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May 8, 2026 · not_requested

Antisemitism: What Everyone Needs To Know by David Harris

Duration seconds: 2120
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May 6, 2026 · not_requested

Yiddish: Biography of a Language

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May 5, 2026 · not_requested

Aya Elyada, "A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938" (Stanford UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3147
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2092160230.mp3?updated=1777868795

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May 5, 2026 · not_requested

Aya Elyada, "A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938" (Stanford UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3147
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7794929148.mp3?updated=1777868795

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May 3, 2026 · not_requested

Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, "Rambam Mishne Torah, Volume 1" (Koren Publishers, 2026)

Duration seconds: 1512
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May 3, 2026 · not_requested

Roger Frie, "Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism and the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Duration seconds: 3836
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3198986645.mp3?updated=1777615317

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May 1, 2026 · not_requested

Mostafa Hussein, "Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 5521
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Apr 28, 2026 · not_requested

The Lost World of African American Cantors 1915–1953

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Apr 26, 2026 · not_requested

Gennady Estraikh, "The History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia" (Bloombury, 2023)

Duration seconds: 3608
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5795227589.mp3?updated=1777124275

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