{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Jewish Studies","slug":"new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327","podcast_index_feed_id":313327,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT1748646590","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/religion-faith/jewish-studies/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/39a56132-ef86-11e8-b21b-1b19c77002c7/image/60cca3664f8db6504a688566b559fc80.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":1494,"summary":"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","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T16:20:23.309680+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327"},"episode":{"title":"Rachel Deblinger, \"Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust\" (Indiana UP, 2025)","slug":"rachel-deblinger-saving-our-survivors-how-american-jews-learned-about-the-holocaust-indiana-up-2025","published_at":"2026-05-20T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"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","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6490180645.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6490180645.mp3","summary":"How did American Jews come to learn about the Holocaust in the immediate aftermath of the war? What kinds of images and representations of Holocaust survivors first circulated in America, when most Jewish survivors were still stuck in European displaced persons camps? Drawing on communal records and previously unexamined cultural materials, Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust (Indiana UP, 2025) details the kinds of narratives that inspired American Jewish action in the wake of the Holocaust and argues that American Jewish communal life became a significant site of knowledge formation and dissemination about the Holocaust. Through organizational campaign materials, public speeches, appeal letters, brochures, posters, radio broadcasts, and short films, American Jews were compelled to act as heroes, saving Jewish lives and a Jewish future.Bringing postwar communal narratives into the longer history of Holocaust memory in America challenges our understanding of what Holocaust narratives look and sound like and invites us to consider the relationship between humanitarian aid and the narratives they employ to inspire action. By expanding our understanding of how stories about the Holocaust became part of an American discourse and considering multiple forms of Holocaust survivor accounts, Saving Our Survivors highlights the messy, diffuse, and contested nature of memory construction in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, as well as each new tragedy we confront. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies","meta_description":"How did American Jews come to learn about the Holocaust in the immediate aftermath of the war? What kinds of images and representations of Holocaust survi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3661,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/episodes/rachel-deblinger-saving-our-survivors-how-american-jews-learned-about-the-holocaust-indiana-up-2025/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"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.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}