# New Books in Jewish Studies

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## Episodes
- [Heidegger in Ruins](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/heidegger-in-ruins) — 2026-07-13T08:00:00+00:00
- [Jeffrey A. Marx, "Jewish Firebugs: Arson and Antisemitism from the Civil War to World War I" (NYU Press, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/jeffrey-a-marx-jewish-firebugs-arson-and-antisemitism-from-the-civil-war-to-world-war-i-nyu-press-2026) — 2026-07-13T08:00:00+00:00
- [Yiddish Tangos and Klezmer Mambos](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/yiddish-tangos-and-klezmer-mambos) — 2026-07-10T08:00:00+00:00
- [Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/psychoanalysis-and-jewish-languages) — 2026-07-08T08:00:00+00:00
- [Lila Corwin Berman, "Who Is American? Belonging and the Question of Jewish Citizenship" (Princeton UP, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/lila-corwin-berman-who-is-american-belonging-and-the-question-of-jewish-citizenship-princeton-up-2026) — 2026-07-06T08:00:00+00:00
- [Molly Crabapple, "Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund" (Random House, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/molly-crabapple-here-where-we-live-is-our-country-the-story-of-the-jewish-bund-random-house-2026) — 2026-07-05T08:00:00+00:00
- [Jonathan L. Friedmann, "Chai Noon: Jews and the Cinematic Wild West" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/jonathan-l-friedmann-chai-noon-jews-and-the-cinematic-wild-west-u-wisconsin-press-2025) — 2026-07-04T08:00:00+00:00
- [Max Weinreich and the Meaning of Yiddish](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/max-weinreich-and-the-meaning-of-yiddish) — 2026-07-03T08:00:00+00:00
- [Good Goy, Bad Goy: The Portrayal of Gentiles in Sketches from the London Yiddish Press](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/good-goy-bad-goy-the-portrayal-of-gentiles-in-sketches-from-the-london-yiddish-press) — 2026-07-01T08:00:00+00:00
- [The 'Tsenerene': The Most Popular Yiddish Book in History](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/the-tsenerene-the-most-popular-yiddish-book-in-history) — 2026-06-29T08:00:00+00:00
- [The Jewish Press Today](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/the-jewish-press-today) — 2026-06-25T08:00:00+00:00
- [Antizionism as a Distinct Anti-Jewish Bigotry with Adam Louis-Klein](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/antizionism-as-a-distinct-anti-jewish-bigotry-with-adam-louis-klein) — 2026-06-24T08:00:00+00:00
- [A Very Jewish Christmas: Jesus and Shabbtai Zvi, from Heretic to Hero](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/a-very-jewish-christmas-jesus-and-shabbtai-zvi-from-heretic-to-hero) — 2026-06-22T08:00:00+00:00
- [Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/hidden-heretics-jewish-doubt-in-the-digital-age) — 2026-06-20T08:00:00+00:00
- [European Jews in the 21st Century](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/european-jews-in-the-21st-century) — 2026-06-18T08:00:00+00:00
- [Samantha Ellis, "Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture" (Pegasus Books, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/samantha-ellis-always-carry-salt-a-memoir-of-preserving-language-and-culture-pegasus-books-2026) — 2026-06-17T08:00:00+00:00
- [Great Minds in Despair](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/great-minds-in-despair) — 2026-06-17T08:00:00+00:00
- [Adrian Ciani, "Contesting Zion: The Vatican, American Catholics, and the Partition of Palestine" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/adrian-ciani-contesting-zion-the-vatican-american-catholics-and-the-partition-of-palestine-mcgill-queen-s-up-2025) — 2026-06-17T08:00:00+00:00
- [Jewish Identity in Lithuania Today](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/jewish-identity-in-lithuania-today) — 2026-06-16T08:00:00+00:00
- [Brook Wilensky-Lanford, "A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/brook-wilensky-lanford-a-god-shaped-nation-five-hundred-years-of-religion-in-america-atlantic-monthly-press-2026) — 2026-06-15T08:00:00+00:00
- [The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/the-yiddish-historians-and-the-struggle-for-a-jewish-history-of-the-holocaust) — 2026-06-14T08:00:00+00:00
- [The Legacy of Chaim Grade](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/the-legacy-of-chaim-grade) — 2026-06-13T08:00:00+00:00
- [Stephen Spector, "God and the First Families: Parenting, Trauma, and Healing in the Book of Genesis" (Jewish Publication Society, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/stephen-spector-god-and-the-first-families-parenting-trauma-and-healing-in-the-book-of-genesis-jewish-publication-society-2026) — 2026-06-12T08:00:00+00:00
- [Matti Friedman, "Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe" (Spiegel & Grau, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/matti-friedman-out-of-the-sky-heroism-and-rebirth-in-nazi-europe-spiegel-grau-2026) — 2026-06-09T08:00:00+00:00
- [Christopher D. Stanley, "A Ram for Mars" (NFB Publishing, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/christopher-d-stanley-a-ram-for-mars-nfb-publishing-2026) — 2026-06-09T08:00:00+00:00
- [Homes of the Past](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/homes-of-the-past) — 2026-06-01T08:00:00+00:00
- [Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/yiddish-ethnography-and-an-ski) — 2026-05-29T08:00:00+00:00
- [Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/summer-camp-and-jewish-culture-in-postwar-america) — 2026-05-24T08:00:00+00:00
- [Ruth Balint, "Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe" (Cornell UP, 2021)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/ruth-balint-destination-elsewhere-displaced-persons-and-their-quest-to-leave-postwar-europe-cornell-up-2021) — 2026-05-22T08:00:00+00:00
- [Ellen Levitt, "Former Synagogues of the United States: Looking at Buildings That Once Housed Synagogues, Schools, and Other Jewish Institutions" (Resource Publications, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/ellen-levitt-former-synagogues-of-the-united-states-looking-at-buildings-that-once-housed-synagogues-schools-and-other-jewish-institutions-resource-publications-2026) — 2026-05-22T08:00:00+00:00
- [Rachel Deblinger, "Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust" (Indiana UP, 2025)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/rachel-deblinger-saving-our-survivors-how-american-jews-learned-about-the-holocaust-indiana-up-2025) — 2026-05-20T08:00:00+00:00
- ["My Heart is in the East": How Yiddish Speakers Moved to the East](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/my-heart-is-in-the-east-how-yiddish-speakers-moved-to-the-east) — 2026-05-19T08:00:00+00:00
- [In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/in-the-midst-of-civilized-europe-the-pogroms-of-1918-1921-and-the-onset-of-the-holocaust) — 2026-05-18T08:00:00+00:00
- [Under the Tenement Rooftops: Immigrant and Migrant Families in New York](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/under-the-tenement-rooftops-immigrant-and-migrant-families-in-new-york) — 2026-05-16T08:00:00+00:00
- [The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/the-light-of-days-the-untold-story-of-women-resistance-fighters-in-hitler-s-ghettos) — 2026-05-13T08:00:00+00:00
- [Ishay Rosen-Zvi, "How to Read Mishnah and Midrash: An Introduction to Early Rabbinic Literature" (U California Press, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/ishay-rosen-zvi-how-to-read-mishnah-and-midrash-an-introduction-to-early-rabbinic-literature-u-california-press-2026) — 2026-05-11T08:00:00+00:00
- [The YIVO Sound Archive at 40: A Celebration](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/the-yivo-sound-archive-at-40-a-celebration) — 2026-05-11T08:00:00+00:00
- [Nazi-Looted Art and Archives: Recovering and Preserving Jewish Culture](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/nazi-looted-art-and-archives-recovering-and-preserving-jewish-culture) — 2026-05-10T08:00:00+00:00
- [Justin Michael Reed, "The Injustice of Noah's Curse" (Oxford UP, 2025)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/justin-michael-reed-the-injustice-of-noah-s-curse-oxford-up-2025) — 2026-05-10T08:00:00+00:00
- [Gideon Reuveni, "The Great Repair: Emotions, Memory, and the German–Jewish Settlement after the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/gideon-reuveni-the-great-repair-emotions-memory-and-the-german-jewish-settlement-after-the-holocaust-cornell-up-2026) — 2026-05-09T08:00:00+00:00
- [Jewish Anarchist Women 1920–1950: The Politics of Sexuality](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/jewish-anarchist-women-1920-1950-the-politics-of-sexuality) — 2026-05-08T08:00:00+00:00
- [Antisemitism: What Everyone Needs To Know by David Harris](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/antisemitism-what-everyone-needs-to-know-by-david-harris) — 2026-05-08T08:00:00+00:00
- [Yiddish: Biography of a Language](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/yiddish-biography-of-a-language) — 2026-05-06T08:00:00+00:00
- [Aya Elyada, "A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938" (Stanford UP, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/aya-elyada-a-lingering-legacy-the-afterlife-of-yiddish-in-german-jewish-culture-1818-1938-stanford-up-2026-2) — 2026-05-05T08:00:00+00:00
- [Aya Elyada, "A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938" (Stanford UP, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/aya-elyada-a-lingering-legacy-the-afterlife-of-yiddish-in-german-jewish-culture-1818-1938-stanford-up-2026) — 2026-05-05T08:00:00+00:00
- [Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, "Rambam Mishne Torah, Volume 1" (Koren Publishers, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/rabbi-adin-even-israel-steinsaltz-rambam-mishne-torah-volume-1-koren-publishers-2026) — 2026-05-03T08:00:00+00:00
- [Roger Frie, "Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism and the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2024)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/roger-frie-edge-of-catastrophe-erich-fromm-fascism-and-the-holocaust-oxford-up-2024) — 2026-05-03T08:00:00+00:00
- [Mostafa Hussein, "Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine" (Princeton UP, 2025)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/mostafa-hussein-hebrew-orientalism-jewish-engagement-with-arabo-islamic-culture-in-late-ottoman-and-british-palestine-princeton-up-2025) — 2026-05-01T08:00:00+00:00
- [The Lost World of African American Cantors 1915–1953](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/the-lost-world-of-african-american-cantors-1915-1953) — 2026-04-28T08:00:00+00:00
- [Gennady Estraikh, "The History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia" (Bloombury, 2023)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/gennady-estraikh-the-history-of-birobidzhan-building-a-soviet-jewish-homeland-in-siberia-bloombury-2023) — 2026-04-26T08:00:00+00:00

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