All Episodes

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

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

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

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

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

An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland

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

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

Educating for an Uncertain Future in Interwar Poland

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

Musical Pripetshik: Lyrics and Melodies of Traditional Yiddish Folksongs

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

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

Denialism: Polish Style

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

A Very Jewish Christmas: When Jesus Spoke Yiddish

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

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

Are We In The Midst Of A Yiddish Renaissance?

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

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

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

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

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

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)

Russia’s Jews in World War I

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

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

Donniel Hartman, "Who Are the Jews—And Who Can We Become?" (Jewish Publication Society, 2023)

Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust

Laura Jockusch on Jewish Revenge after the Holocaust (JP)

Yiddish Language During the Holocaust

Posen Library: Jewish Studies Teaching Modules

The YIVO Library in New York: Personal Reflections on Its History and Collections

Kyle H. Keimer and George A. Pierce eds., "The Ancient Israelite World" (Routledge, 2024)

George Savran, "Jacob: Conflicted Twin, Aggrieved Patriarch" (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2025)

Two Revolutionary Jews: Leon Trotsky and Chaim Zhitlowsky

Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff, "The Woman Question in Jewish Studies" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Jenny R. Labendz, "Beyond Hope: Rabbinic Eschatology of Late Antiquity in Comparative Perspective" (Oxford UP, 2026)

New Trends in YIVO Scholarship

Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe

David Denby, "Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer" (Henry Holt, 2025)

Elad Lapidot, "State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel" (Indiana UP, 2025)

Ambrogio Caiani, "Flirting with Evil: The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation" (Apollo, 2026)

Chad S. A. Gibbs "Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance" (U Wisconsin Press, 2026)

Nora L. Rubel, "Recipes for the Melting Pot: The Lives of the Settlement Cook Book" (Columbia UP, 2026)

Sarah Kaminsky, "The Forger of Paris" (Doppelhouse Press, 2025)

Heidegger in Ruins

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

Yiddish Tangos and Klezmer Mambos

Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages

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

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

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

Max Weinreich and the Meaning of Yiddish

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

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

The Jewish Press Today

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

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

Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age

European Jews in the 21st Century

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

Great Minds in Despair

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

Jewish Identity in Lithuania Today

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

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

The Legacy of Chaim Grade

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

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

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

Sarah M. Cushman et al eds., "The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau" (Routledge, 2026)

Jane Kanarek, "Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah" (Brandeis UP, 2025)

Steven Nadler, "Spinoza, Atheist" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Homes of the Past

Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski

Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The YIVO Sound Archive at 40: A Celebration

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

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

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

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

Antisemitism: What Everyone Needs To Know by David Harris

Jewish Anarchist Women 1920–1950: The Politics of Sexuality

Yiddish: Biography of a Language

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

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

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

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

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

The Lost World of African American Cantors 1915–1953

Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Michal Govrin et. al, "But There Was Love―Shaping the Memory of the Shoah" (de Gruyter, 2025)

Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)

Marla Segol, "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)

Michael Geheran, "Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler" (Cornell UP, 2020)

Yonatan Y. Brafman, "Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Elissa Bemporad, "Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)

Anders Persson, "EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)

Kirsten Fermaglich, "A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America" (NYU Press, 2018)

Peter Bergamin, "The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology” (I. B. Tauris, 2019)

Jennifer Cazenave, "An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah" (SUNY Press, 2019)

Jelena Subotić, "Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism" (Cornell UP, 2019)

On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen