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Seforimchatter — 469 episodes
SmallTalk: Drawing from the Depths of the Parshiyos (with Rabbi Moshe Kramer)
SmallTalk: Rav Naftali Viyershuver (1850 - 1930) (with Sruly Singer)
Haskalah: An Overview (with Prof. Olga Litvak)
SmallTalk: The Meir Panim edition of Zohar (with Rabbi Yehoshua Lifschitz)
SmallTalk: Introduction to the Zohar (with Rabbi Joey Rosenfeld)
Elisha Cresques (1325 - 1387): A Medieval Jewish Mapmaker (with Prof. Katrin Kogman-Appel)
SmallTalk: Psyched for Torah (with Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman)
SmallTalk: Torat Eretz Yisrael Anthology (with Rabbi David Samson)
SmallTalk: The Chumash of Heroes (with Yehuda Lanzkron)
Rav Saadiah Gaon's Commentary on Vayikra (with Rabbi Moshe Maimon & Rabbi Shimon Szimonowitz)
SmallTalk: Walking With Light: Reflections on Sefiras HaOmer (with Rabbi Chaim Davies)
The Writings of Rav Elazar Fleckles (with Rabbi Moshe Tobal)
Rav Elazar Fleckles: Teshuvah M'Ahavah (with Rabbi Moshe Tobal)
SmallTalk: Karpas - The Big Dipper (with Rabbi Ori Strum)
Rav Elazar Fleckles (1754 - 1826) (with Rabbi Moshe Maimon)
SmallTalk: Haggadah Shel Pesach Siach Yitzchak (with Rabbi Isaac Rice)
SmallTalk: The Attached Haggadah (with Rabbi Yakov Danishevksy)
Interview on the TMC podcast
Haggadah and History (with Rabbi Shimon Szimonowitz)
SmallTalk: Haggadah Shel Pesach B'Damayich Chayi (with Rabbi Yehoshua Forgy)
SmallTalk: The Rhyme and Reason Haggadah (with Rabbi Reuven Lowy)
Echoes of Egypt (with Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman)
SmallTalk: The Psychology and Personal Growth Haggadah (with Rabbi Shimon Feder)
SmallTalk: The Winding Road of Redemption Haggadah (with Rabbi Yaakov Fisch)
Jewish Peddlers (with Prof. Hasia Diner)
SmallTalk: Sefer Birchas Yisroel on Chumash - the Brisker method (with Rabbi Shimon Szimonowitz)
The Book of Esther In The Age Of Rembrandt (with Abigail Rapoport)
SmallTalk: Moadim with Meaning (with Rabbi Moshe Schochet)
Haman: A Biography (with Prof. Adam Silverstein)
SmallTalk: Understanding Megillas Esther with Ibn Kaspi (with Sina Kahen and Jackson Gardner)
Sofer.AI: AI and Torah (with Zach Fish)
SmallTalk: Chachmei HaMishnah (with Rabbi Dovid Jaffee)
SmallTalk: Football, Antisemitism, and Harvard: The Story of Arnold Horween (with Dr. Zev Eleff)
Jewish Fables (with Dr. Emile Schrijver)
AuctionChatter: Genazym Winter Event (with Rabbi Moshe Maimon)
Unlocking Leshon Hakodesh (with Prof. Eliezer (Lewis) Glinert)
SmallTalk: The Mezuzah User Guide (with Rabbi Moshe Gantz & Joseph Miller)
King Henry VIII and the Rabbis (with Jerry Rabow)
SmallTalk: Badei HaMitzvos - Explaining the Miztvos According to the Weekly Parshah (with Yitzchok Weber)
AuctionChatter: Tavin Auction 1 (with R' Moshe Kravetz)
SmallTalk: Mr. Avi Shulman (with R' Sroy Levitansky)
Divrei Sholom V'Emes: The Maskilic Manifesto and The Controversy (with Prof. Shmuel Feiner)
SmallTalk: Together Forever: Torah Strategies For Marriage (with Roy & Leah Neuberger)
The Early Jewish Printed Book: Episode 4 - Epilogue (with Michelle Margolis)
The Early Jewish Printed Book: Episode 3 (with Michelle Margolis)
The Early Jewish Printed Book: Episode 2 (with Michelle Margolis)
The Early Jewish Printed Book: Episode 1 (with Michelle Margolis)
SmallTalk: Kol Chosson: Foundations of the Jewish Wedding (with Rabbi Dr. Elly Deutsch)
Disputed Messiahs: Jewish Messianism in the Ashkenazic World During the Reformation (with Prof. Rebekka Voß)
SmallTalk: Haftorah of Chanukah Unlocked (with Sam Stonefield)
Mishnat Eyal: The Personal Mishnayos of Fallen Soldier Eyal Meir Berkowitz HY'D (with Rabbi Eliyahu Dordek)
SmallTalk: What Can I Say Today? Practical Shmiras Haloshon (with Rabbi Dovid Jaffee)
A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe (with Prof. Elisheva Carlebach & Prof. Debra Kaplan)
SmallTalk: Touro Medical Halachah Annual (with Dr. Edward Lebovics)
Machon Ahavat Shalom: Seforim & Manuscripts (with Rav Eliyahu Hillel)
SmallTalk: Ibn Ezra's Inroduction to The Torah (with Jackson Gardner)
Thanksgiving and Jewish Law (with Prof. Michael Broyde)
SmallTalk: The Halachos of Facing Yerushalayim (with R' Yosef Weisenfeld)
The Samaritans (with Prof. Steven Fine)
SmallTalk: Growing Parents, Growing Children (with Rabbi Noam Grossman)
Radak on Bereishis: An Analysis (with Prof. Yitzhak Berger)
Radak on Bereishis: An Overview (with Yoram Bogacz)
SmallTalk: Making it Real on the Torah (with Rabbi Moshe Pruzansky)
Rabbi Akiva (with Abie Rotenberg)
SmallTalk: Transform Your Emunah (with Reuven Garber)
The Unconventional Life and Thought of Solomon Yom Tov Bennett (1767 - 1838) (with Prof. David Ruderman)
SmallTalk: A Taste of Rav Hirsch’s Torah (with Naphtaly Levy)
Rabeinu Tam (1100 - 1171) (with Rabbi Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel)
SmallTalk: Shnayim (Mikra) Yomi (with Elad Danino)
The Great Shiurim Debate (with Rabbi Ahron Notis)
Rabbi Meir Poppers (1628 - 1662) and his role in spreading Toras HaAriZal (with Avinoam Stillman)
SmallTalk: The Book and The Blade (with Rabbi Avi Weller)
The Making of the Siddur (with Rabbi Moshe Walter)
Talmud Reclaimed (with Shmuel Phillips)
In His Mercy: Understanding the Thirteen Middos (with Rabbi Ezra Bick)
SmallTalk: Articles of Faith: Traditional Jewish Belief in the Internet Era (with Rabbi Gil Student)
AuctionChatter: Legacy Judaica (with R' Moshe Maimon)
The Woman who Defied Kings: Doña Gracia Nasi (1510 - 1569) (with Andrée Aelion Brooks)
SmallTalk: Imrei Shai Al Hatorah (with R' Shimon Szimonowitz)
AuctionChatter: Genazym 21 - Catalog of the Giants
Tafkid HaAdam: Finding One's True Purpose (with R' Gili Backenroth)
SmallTalk: The Torah of Tomorrow: Rav Kook's Torah (with Rochi Ebner)
HaDoresh VeHamevakesh: A Unique Take on Shas (with R' David Farkas, Esq.)
The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai (with Prof. Melissa Klapper)
SmallTalk: Emunah and Physics (with Dr. Berel Epstein)
The Writings of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (with Dr. Elliot Bondi)
SmallTalk: Writing Jewish and Secular Fiction (with Leah Cypess)
Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America (with Prof. Laura Yares)
SmallTalk: Timely and Timeless (with R' Dovid Bogopulsky and R' Yehoshua Duker)
SmallTalk: Tzipsa L'Yeshuah: Yearning for Redemption (with Rabbi Daniel Glatstein)
Jews vs. Rome: The Churban and its aftermath (with Prof. Barry Strauss)
SmallTalk: Az Nidberu on Devarim (with R' Ali Scharf)
Emek Habacha: The Trials and Tribulations of Jewish History as written by a 16th century Jewish Historian (with Dr. Micha Perry)
SmallTalk: Becoming Godly (with Rabbi Dr. Yosef Sokol)
Reflections Upon Rav Yehuda Amital (with Rabbi Moshe Taragin)
SmallTalk: Music in Halachah (with R' Pinchas Shelby)
Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World (with Prof. Martin Goodman)
SmallTalk: Common Ground (with Rabbi Arieh Friedner)
Sefer Chasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing (with Prof. Joseph Skloot)
AuctionChatter: TajArt Auction 17 (with R' Moshe Maimon)
The American Revolution and Jewish Patriots (with Prof. Adam Jortner)
The Dybbuk: Its Origins and History (with Dr. Morris Faierstein)
SmallTalk: ArchitecTorah: Architectural Ideas on the Torah (with Joshua Skarf)
Akeidas Yitzchak of Rabbi Yitzchak Arama (1420 - 1494) (with Ziv Elul)
SmallTalk: Tefillah B'Btzibbur B'Halacha (with R' Shimon Szimonowitz)
Speaking to an Empty Shul: Covid Derashos (with Rabbi Yehuda Halpert)
SmallTalk: Adirei Hatorah - A new compilation of Divrei Torah on the Parsha (with R' Aryeh Ganz)
AuctionChatter: Kestenbaum & Company Auction 112 (with R' Moshe Maimon)
The Baal Shem Tov: Episode 2 (with Prof. Glenn Dynner)
The Baal Shem Tov: Episode 1 (with Prof. Glenn Dynner)
SmallTalk: A Mysterious Guest for Dinner and other Aggados (with Rabbi Dr. Moshe Sokol)
The Shochet: Part 2 - the Autobiography of Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn (1848 - 1930) (with Michoel Rotenfeld)
SmallTalk: Kan Tzipor: Life's Special Moments (with Stephen Savitsky)
A History of Jews and Pandemics (with Dr. Jeremy Brown)
Glikl of Hameln (1647 - 1724) and her memoirs (with Dr. Rachel Greenblatt)
SmallTalk: Sefer Habris on Bris Milah (with R' Shimon Szimonowitz)
The Great Zmanim Debate (with Rabbi Ahron Notis)
SmallTalk: Vayiqra in Context - The Commentary of Rabbi Elia Benamozegh (with Sina Kahen & Ben Rothstein)
Chacham Tzvi Ashkenazi (1658 - 1718) (with Rabbi Dr. Yosie Levine)
SmallTalk: Achsanya Journal Vol 3: Pesach Edition (with Rabbi Eli Simcha Hellmann)
An American Blood Libel - Massena, NY 1928 (with Prof. Edward Berenson)
SmallTalk: Halachos of Baking Matza (with Rabbi Yitzhak Berdugo)
SmallTalk: The Abuchatzeira Legacy Haggadah (with Rabbi Mordechai Lebhar)
Seder Mitzvos Nashim: A 16th century Handbook for Women (with Prof. Edward Fram)
The Legacy Haggadah (with Rabbi Moshe Hubner)
5 Years of Seforimchatter
Nephilim: Giants and Fallen Angels According to Chazal (with R' Yisroel Cohen)
Aggadata and Machshava (with R' Yechezkel Hartman)
Medieval Purim Parodies (with Dr. Roni Cohen)
The Forgotten Torah Commentary: R. Leib Shapiro Frankfurter (1743-1836), Defending Tradition with Bold New Perspectives (with Eliezer Cohn)
Torah Memory Palace: An Ancient Memory Technique Reimagined (with Heshy Weisz)
SmallTalk: Living Jewish Art: The Art of Itshak Holtz (with David Segal)
Abraham Lincoln & the Jews (with Prof. Jonathan Sarna)
The Reception of the Zohar: A History, Ep. 5 (with J.J. Kimche)
The Reception of the Zohar: A History, Ep. 4 (with J.J. Kimche)
The Reception of the Zohar: A History, Ep. 3 (with J.J. Kimche)
AuctionChatter: Genazym 20 (with R' Moshe Maimon)
The Reception of the Zohar: A History, Ep. 2 (with J.J. Kimche)
The Reception of the Zohar: A History, Ep. 1 (with J.J. Kimche)
The 1929 Chevron Massacre (with Yardena Schwartz)
The Shabbos Mussaf Prayer (with Rabbi Elchanan Adler)
SmallTalk: Ideas on Shemos (with Sina Kahen)
Pri Ets Haim: AI's Role in Reviving Jewish History (with Daniel Frances & Josh Guedalia)
The Sources of the Siddur (with Moshe Tzvi Wieder)
The Books of Maccabees (with Prof. Daniel R. Schwartz)
SmallTalk: Historical Fiction & Chanukah (with Channah Cohen)
The Kotzker (with Yisroel Besser)
A Review: The Guide to the Perplexed: A New English Translation (with Rabbi Shnayor Burton)
The Guide to the Perplexed: A New English Translation (with Prof. Lenn E. Goodman)
Sotheby's Judaica, Manuscripts, and Auctions (with Shaul Seidler-Feller)
Shaar Cards: Learning the History of the Rishonim through Cards (with R' Levi Goldwasser)
Rabbi Meir (Maharam) of Rothenburg (1220 - 1293) (with Rabbi Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel)
AuctionChatter: Taj Art 15
Halachah: Evasion, Avoidance, and Workarounds (with Rabbi Daniel Feldman)
Rabbi Michoel Forshlager (1883 - 1958) (with Pinny Kreizel)
History of the Jews in the Netherlands (Amsterdam) (with Prof. Bart Wallet)
AuctionChatter: Genazym 19 - the Toporowitch Collection
Rav Zvi Hirsch Kalischer (1795 - 1874) (with Prof. Asaf Yedidya)
AuctionChatter: Legacy Judaica 11.3.24 (with R' Moshe Maimon)
Sefer Chezyonos: The Mystical Autobiography of Rav Chaim Vital (with Dr. Morris Faierstein)
The Kesser Torah Yeshiva System of Radomsk (with Dovi Safier)
With Rabbi Moshe Taragin discussing October 7th and its aftermath
The Making of Minhagei Yomim Nora'im (with Rabbi Moshe Walter)
Rav Dovid Hakohen Rappaport, the Mikdash Dovid (1890 - 1941) (with Yehuda Geberer)
The Jews of Modena, Italy (with Prof. Federica Francesconi)
Machon Ofeq edition of the Toras Kohanim (with R' Yehuda Shoshana)
Rav Kook: Life & Legacy - Episode 3 (with Prof. Yehudah Mirsky)
Rav Kook: Life & Legacy - Episode 2 (with Prof. Yehudah Mirsky)
Rav Kook: Life & Legacy - Episode 1 (with Prof. Yehudah Mirsky)
Death, Graves, Burial, and associated subjects in Judaism (with R' Yaakov Sofer)
The Jews of Jamaica (with Prof. Stanley Mirvis)
TLT Episode 17: The Bnei Menashe (ft. Hillel Halkin)
Tisha B'Av Kinnos & Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (ft. Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter)
TLT Episode 16: The Recent Increase in Interest in TLT (with Prof. Shalva Weil)
Jerusalem Through the Ages: From Its Beginnings to the Crusades (ft. Prof. Jodi Magness)
TLT Episode 15: The Modern Ten Lost Tribes - Ethiopian Jews, The Lemba Tribe, and Black Jews of Africa and America (ft. Prof. Tudor Parfitt)
The Kidnapping & Forced Conversion of Edgardo Mortara (ft. Prof. David Kertzer)
TLT Episode 14: The Jews of China, the Boxer Rebellion, and Rabbi Uziel Haga (ft. Prof. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite)
The Jews of Medieval England: Life, Violence, and Expulsion (with Prof. John Tolan)
The Ramban (1194 - 1270) (with Prof. Oded Israeli)
TLT Series Episode 13: R' Yechiel Goldhaber - Rav Yisroel Shklover, the Talmidei HaGra, and the Ten Lost Tribes
With R' Yosef Leib Klein & R' Yechezkel Sklar discussing Rav Mordechai Banet (1753 - 1829) and the new edition of Shu't Parashas Mordechai
TLT Series Episode 12: Prof. Elizabeth Fenton - The Hebraic Indian Theory
The Kedushas Levi and the new English edition (with R' Moyshe (Mitchell) Silk)
TLT Series Episode 11: Prof. Sina Rauschenbach - Rabbi Menashe ben Israel and the Ten Lost Tribes
With Rav Aharon Lopiansky discussing his new book for Yeshiva Bochurim ("Ben Yeshiva: A Pathway of Aliyah")
With J.J. Kimche discussing C.D. Ginsburg (1825 - 1914)
AuctionChatter: With R' Moshe Maimon discussing the Genazym 18 Auction Catalogue
With R' Alex Hool discussing the location of Har Sinai
With Rabbi Basil Herring discussing R. Yosef Ibn Kaspi (1279 - 1340)
AuctionChatter: With R' Moshe Maimon discussing the Royal Auction House - Auction 10 Catalogue
With R' Daniel Glatstein discussing Lag BaOmer
Discussing my new edition of Sefer Toras Chaim (R. Avraham Chaim Schorr, d. 1632) on Maseches Avodah Zara
With Eliezer Saidel discussing the Lechem Hapanim
TLT Series Episode 10: Prof. Jonathan Schorsch - Antonio de Montezinos and his Relacion in context
TLT Series Episode 9: Prof. Ronnie Perelis - Antonio de Montezinos and the Ten Lost Tribes in the New World
With R' Eli Simcha Hellmann discussing Rav Juspa Schammes (1604 - 1698) and his newly published Haggadah
Mitzrayim (Egypt), Midrash, and Myth (with R' Yisroel Cohen)
With Dr. Susan Weingarten discussing the history of Charoses
AuctionChatter: With R' Moshe Maimon discussing the Taj Art Auction 13 Catalogue
Blood Libels & Ritual Murder Trials at the turn of the 20th century (with Prof. Hillel Kieval)
With R' Moshe Baruch Kaufman discussing Rav Aryeh Leib Lipkin (1839 - 1903) and his Sefer Ohr HaYom on Zmanim
With Rabbi Michael Taubes & Rabbi Josh Flug discussing the new Batei Yosef series on Moadim: Torah of Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik and other YU Roshei Yeshiva
With R' Moshe Maimon discussing Matmonim Auction 4 Catalogue
With Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker discussing how to retain your learning and his new book on the subject
With Prof. Jordan Penkower discussing the history of printed Rashi on Tanach
With R' Moshe Maimon discussing the Genazym Auction 17 catalogue
The Shochet: The autobiography of Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn (1848 - 1930) (with Michoel Rotenfeld)
TLT Series Episode 8: Prof. Alan Verskin - David Reueveni (16th century): Imposter or brother of the King of the Lost Tribes?
TLT Series Episode 7: Dr. Moti Benmelech - The Ten Lost Tribes in Jewish Consciousness in the 15th & 16th Centuries
With Rabbi Mordechai Lebhar & Avishai Shraga discussing Chacham David Sasson Rabban of Hamedan, Iran and his writings (1879 - 1974)
TLT Series Epiosde 6: Keagan Brewer - The Christian Legend of Prester John
TLT Series Episode 5: Prof. Rebekka Voß - The Red Jews and Ma'aseh Akdamus
Baalei Tosafos Al Hatorah: An Overview (with Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel)
TLT Series Episode 4: Dr. Micha Perry - Eldad HaDani (9th century): From the tribe of Dan?
TLT Series Episode 3: Dr. Daniel Stein-Kokin - The Legendary Sambatyon River
TLT Series Episode 2: R' Fishel Mael - The Twelve Tribes from a Torah perspective
AuctionChatter: With R' Moshe Maimon discussing the Taj Art Auction 11 catalogue
TLT (Ten Lost Tribes) Series Episode 1: Prof. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite - The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History
With R' Yechiel Goldhaber discussing the history of playing games and dreidel on Chanukah
The History of the Menorah (with Prof. Steven Fine)
With Rabbi Yanki Tauber discussing his new translated and annotated Chumash project and volume 1:The Book of Genesis with Commentary and Insights from 500 Sages and Mystics
With Prof. Edwin Seroussi discussing Rav Yisrael Najara (1555 - 1625): Gaza's most famous Rabbi, Poet, and Preacher
With Rav Aron Lopiansky discussing Taamei HaMikra, Targum Onkelos, and his new Sefer on the topic
With Prof. Gershon David Hundert A'H discussing Ber (Birkenthal) of Bolechów's (1723 - 1805) memoirs
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 19: Genie Milgrom - A modern day Converso story
Rav Yehuda Copperman ZT'L and Pshuto Shel Mikra (with Rav Immanuel Bernstein)
With Yehuda Geberer & Dovi Safier discussing Rav Yonah Minsker, Memoirs, and more
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 18: Prof. Marc Shapiro - Was there a "Cherem" (ban) to live in Spain?
Immanuel of Rome (14th century) and his works (with Prof. Dana Fishkin)
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 17: Prof. Ronnie Perelis - Autobiographical narratives of Conversos in the Americas
With R' Reuven Chaim Klein discussing Lashon HaKodesh and his book on the topic
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Epiosde 16: Prof. Ana Schaposchnik - The Spanish Inquisition in South America (Lima, Peru)
With Prof. Joseph Sassoon discussing the rise and fall of the Sassoon family
With David Curwin discussing Koheles and its connection to Bereishis
With R' Moshe Flohr discussing Siddur Otzar HaTefillos and his project to redo the Siddur
Aleinu and its history (with Mitchell First)
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 15: Prof. Matt Goldish - Rabbinic responsa throughout the Sephardic diaspora
With Sammy Oziel discussing Moroccan (French [Toshavim] & Spanish [Megurashim]) Nusach HaTefillah and his new editions of Moroccan Siddurim
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 14: Prof. David Graizbord - Conversos
With Rav Dovid Sackton discussing Rav Yitzchak Canpanton's Sefer Darkei HaGemara (HaTalmud) and his new edition
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 13: Prof. Francois Soyer - The Expulsion and forced conversion of the Jews in Portugal, 1497
Holocaust survivors raising chickens in New Jersey (with Seth Stern)
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 12: Prof. Jonathan Ray - The Expulsion of the Jews of Spain in 1492 and its aftereffects
With Prof. Andrew Berns discussing the commentaries of Rav Yitzchak Arama (Akedas Yitzchak), Rav Yitzchak Abarbanel, and Rav Avraham Saba (Tzeror Hamor)
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 11: Prof. Gretchen Starr-LeBeau - The Inquisition in Guadalupe, Spain
With Dr. David Sclar discussing the Rambam exhibit at the YU Museum & accompanying volume
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 10: Prof. Richard Kagan - Autobiographical tales from the Inquisition
Letters of consolation from Gedolei Yisroel (with R' Doniel Hexter)
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 9: With Prof. Lu Ann Homza - The Spanish Inquisition: An overview
The History of Masada (with Prof. Jodi Magness)
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 8: Prof. Benjamin Gampel - The Spanish Riots of 1391 in the Kingdom of Aragon
Rav Shlomo Ganzfried (1804 - 1886) (with Rabbi Yitzchak Stroh)
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 7: Prof. Maya Soifer Irish - The Spanish riots of 1391 in the Kingdom of Castile
Bonus episode: Live with R' Moshe Maimon discussing various antique seforim, manuscripts, and letters
Jerusalem from the 7th to 13th centuries (with Prof. John Hosler)
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 6: Prof. Paola Tartakoff - The Papal Inquisition in Spain
With Prof. Yitzhak Melamed discussing Solomon Maimon (1753 - 1800) and the new edition of his autobiography
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 5: Prof. Sarah Ifft Decker - Jewish Women of Medieval Catalonia
With Yehuda Esral discussing Sefer Zikaron Pnei Moshe and its contents (including a fascinating Gittin controversy from Atlanta in 1914)
Live from Lakewood: "Kevarimchatter" with Dovi Safier and Yossel Housman (a/k/a R' Yosef Shaul Hoizman)
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 4: Prof. Marc Herman - The great Talmudic and Halachic Scholars of Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain)
With R' Zvi Davidson discussing Rav Tzvi Hirsch Ferber (1879 - 1966) and his Seforim
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 3: With Prof. Ross Brann - The Greatness of Sephardi Culture, 950-1200: Religious and Secular Poetry in Medieval Muslim Spain and its great Jewish Figures
The Great Italian Plague of 1630-31 (with Prof. Susan Einbinder)
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 2: With Prof. Benjamin Gampel - Broad themes and questions related to Spanish Jewry
With Elie Feder discussing Gematria Refigured - a new look at Gematria and his new book on the topic
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 1: With Prof. Jonathan Ray - Overview of the history of Spanish Jewry from its establishment until the 14th century
With Prof. Adam Mendelsohn discussing Jewish Soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War
With Rav Aaron Lopianksy discussing Sefer Nachlas Yosef on Megillas Rus and the English adaptation, "Seed of Redemption"
Live from Prague (feat. special guests Yehuda Geberer & Dovi Safier)
With Aaron Friedman discussing Sefer Pnei Avraham on Shas and the story of how his father saved the manuscript after the holocaust
The Rosh (Rabeinu Asher b. Yechiel, 1250 - 1327) (with Rabbi Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel)
With Rav Shnayor Burton discussing the mitzvah to reside in Eretz Yisrael and his new Sefer on the topic
With Prof. David Kertzer discussing Pope Pius XII and his relationship with Mussolini and Hitler and his silence regarding the Jews during the Holocaust
With R' Moshe Maimon discussing the Legacy Judaica auction 11 catalogue
Halachic challenges with the early Jewish immigration to America (1850 - 1924) (with Dr. Akiva Sternberg)
With Prof. Ronnie Hsia discussing the ritual murder trial (blood libel) of Trent in 1475
With Rabbi Isaac Rice discussing the Haggadah Shel Pesach and the foundations of running a Seder
With Rav Yehoshua Hartman discussing the Maharal's Shabbos HaGadol Derasha
With R' Moshe Hubner discussing his English adaptation of Minchas Chinuch on Pesach
With R' Eliyahu Simcha Hellmann discussing Rav Yitzchak Dov Bamberger - The Wurzburger Rav (1807 - 1878) - and Kollel Achsanya Shel Torah
With R' Shimon Szimonowitz discussing Sefer Igros Sofrim: The Letters of the Eiger - Sofer families
With Dr. Zev Eleff discussing the history of the Purim Shpiel (in America)
With R' Elimelech Zweibel discussing Sefer Eim Labinah of Rav Yaakov Emden
With Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten discussing Jewish daily life in the Middle Ages
With R' Dovid Silverman discussing Sefer Matamei Yitzchak & the story behind the manuscript
With Prof. Yossi Chajes discussing Kabbalistic Trees (האילן הקבלי)
With Prof. Daniel Schwartz discussing the history of the (word) Ghetto
With Prof. Matt Goldish discussing Chacham David Nieto (1654 - 1728)
Rav Dovid HaNaggid & his commentary on Parshas Vaera (with R' Moshe Maimon)
With Rabbi Yehoshua Lifschitz discussing the various Seforim that he wrote & edited (Sifrei Meir Panim)
With Prof. Emily Michelson discussing Catholic Preaching to Jews in Rome
With Prof. Jessica Marglin discussing Nissim Shamama (d. 1873) and the legal battle over his fortune
With Prof. Steven Bowman discussing Sefer Yosippon and his new English translation
With Prof. Edward Fram discussing the codification of Jewish law in the 16th century and Rav Yosef Karo, Rav Shlomo Luria (Maharshal), and Rav Moshe Isserles (Rema)
With Prof. Francesca Trivellato discussing the myth that Jews invented Bills of Exchange (Credit)
With Rabbi Edward Reichman, MD discussing his new book, The Anatomy of Jewish Law, on the topic of Medicine, Medical History, and Rabbinic Literature
With R' Moshe Maimon discussing Rabeinu Avraham Ben Harambam (1186 - 1237); Life and Works
With Dr. Yakov Mayer discussing the first edition of the Talmud Yerushalmi
Chacham Shemtob Gaguine (1884 - 1953) and his Seforim (with Roy Shasha)
The Jews of Suriname (with Prof. Aviva Ben-Ur)
With Daniel Klein discussing Shadal (Shmuel/Samuel David Luzzatto) and his Sefer "Ohev Ger" on Targum Onkelos
With R' Moshe Parnes discussing the Mitzvah of Hakhel and his new Sefer on the topic
With Prof. Joshua Teplitsky, Prof. Debra Kaplan, and Dr. Zev Eleff discussing the Esrog and the new volume, "Be Fruitful! The Etrog in Jewish Art, Culture, and History"
With Rabbi Bentzion Ettlinger discussing the Shofar: The Halachos, Minhagim, and his new English Sefer about it
With Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter discussing Selichos and his new edition of Selichos with introduction and commentary
The Jews of Corfu (with Michelle Margolis and Sharon Liberman Mintz)
With R' Mendy Abramson discussing Bathing and Showering in Halachah and his new English Sefer on the topic
With R' Moshe Maimon discussing the Chida and Maagel Tov (the Chida's travelogue)
With David Arnovitz discussing The Tanakh of the Land of Israel
With Dr. Morris Faierstein discussing the Yudisher Theriak (A Yiddish Defense of Judaism)
The Judean Revolt Series with Prof. Guy M. Rogers: The Great Jewish Revolt, 66 - 74 CE and the destruction of the Second Temple. Part III: Masada and the Legacies of the Great Revolt
The Judean Revolt Series with Prof. Guy M. Rogers: The Great Jewish Revolt, 66 - 74 CE and the destruction of the Second Temple. Part II: The War and Destruction of the Temple.
With R' Yaakov Beer discussing Sefer B'Ikvei HaGalus about the Churban
The First Crusade (1096) and the Jews (with Rabbi Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel)
The Judean Revolt Series with Prof. Guy M. Rogers: The Great Jewish Revolt, 66-74 CE and the destruction of the Second Temple. Part I: Causes of conflict
With R' Aryeh Ganz and R' Shimon Szimonowitz discussing Sefer Arzei HaLevanon Al Hatorah
Rabeinu Bachya and his writings (with Rabbi Yaakov Taubes)
With Dr. Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky discussing the history of Lithuanian Yeshivas and his new book on the topic
With Prof. Kenneth Stow discussing the Diary of Anna of Rome and the book he wrote about the diary
With Dr. Tzafrir Barzilay discussing well poisoning accusations against Jews and minorities in Medieval Europe (relating to the Black Death)
With R' Yaakov Yosef Reinman (AKA Avner Gold) discussing his historical fiction book series ("The Strasbourg saga")
With Dr. Yael Ziegler discussing Megillas Rus and her book, "Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy"
With Prof. Rachel Manekin discussing Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia and her book on the topic
With Rabbanit Chana Henkin discussing her son Rav Eitam Z'L HY'D, his writings, and the new English collection just published, "Studies in Halakha and Rabbinic History"
SZ Series Episode 15: Finale episode with Prof. Matt Goldish
With Zev Bar-Eitan discussing his English series, "Abravanel's World of Torah"
SZ Series Episode 14: With Dr. David Sclar discussing the Ramchal controversy
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe (with Prof. Ephraim Shoham-Steiner)
With Dr. Alan Kadish & Rabbi Dr. Michael Shmidman discussing their new book, "The Jewish Intellectual Tradition"
With R' Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer discussing the forged Yerushalmi on Kodashim
With Elie Rosenfeld discussing the Maxwell House Haggadah
With R' Moshe Flohr discussing Hilchos Mechiras Chametz and his English Sefer on the topic
With Prof. Daniel J. Lasker discussing the history of Karaism and his new book on the topic
With Dr. Rebecca Jefferson discussing the discovery, origins, and history of the Cairo Genizah and her new book about the topic
SZ Series Episode 13: With Prof. Elisheva Carlebach discussing Rav Moshe Chagiz (1671 - 1751)
With R' Moshe Maimon discussing the Piyut "Mi Komocha" of Rav Yehuda HaLevi
With Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel discussing the Ohr Zarua (Rav Yitzchak of Vienna, 1180 - 1250)
With Rav Doniel Neustadt discussing Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky's Seforim
With Prof. Yochanan Petrovsky-Shtern discussing the Russians' war against Ukraine: The stakes for the Jews
With Prof. Jeffrey Woolf discussing the Maharik (Rav Yosef Colon Trabotto, 1420 - 1480)
SZ Series Episode 12: With Bezalel Naor discussing Post-Sabbatean Sabbateanism
With Dr. Dov Zakheim discussing Rebbe (Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi)
With Prof. Edward Fram discussing the Court Diaries of Rabbi Chayim Gundersheim of Frankfurt Am Main, 1773 - 1794
SZ Series Episode 11: With Prof. Pawel Maciejko discussing Jacob Frank and the Frankist movement
With R' Pinchas Werner discussing his Sefer, "Keitzad Seder Mishna"
SZ Series Episode 10: With Prof. Cengiz Sisman discussing the Dönme
With Prof. Glenn Dynner discussing Jewish Tavernkeepers & the Liquor trade in the Kingdom of Poland
SZ Series Episode 9: With R’ Yechiel Goldhaber discussing Sefer Chemdas Yamim
With Eli Rubin discussing Rabbi Shmuel Schneerson of Lubavitch ("Maharash," 1834 - 1882)
SZ Series Episode 8: With Prof. Boaz Huss discussing the Sabbatean origins of Tu B'Shvat
With Prof. Rena Lauer discussing the Jews of (Venetian) Crete
SZ Series Episode 7: With Prof. Adam Teller discussing the impact of Tach V'Tat upon Sabbateanism
The American Kosher Milk Controversy (with R' Manes Blumenfrucht)
SZ Series Episode 6: With Prof. Alexander van der Haven discussing Sarah Ashkenazi
With Rabbi Yehuda Keilson discussing the Derashos HaRan
SZ Series Episode 5: With Prof. Matt Goldish part 2: Discussing post-conversion and death of SZ
With Prof. David Fraser discussing Anti-Shechita Prosecutions between 1855 - 1913 and his book on the subject
SZ Series Episode 4: With Prof. David J. Halperin discussing Abraham Miguel Cardozo
With Prof. Emile Schrijver discussing Jewish Book Culture
SZ Series Episode 3: With Prof. Yaacob Dweck discussing Rabbi Yaakov Sasportas
With Rabbi Basil Herring discussing the new RCA Siddur
SZ Series Episode 2: With Avinoam Stillman discussing Nathan of Gaza
With Prof. Malka Simkovich discussing Chanukah & the classic sources
SZ Series Episode 1: With Prof. Matt Goldish discussing Sabbatai Zevi's life and impact until the conversion
With Prof. Francesca Trivellato discussing the Jews of Livorno (Leghorn), Italy
With R' Shimon Szimonowitz & R' Yaakov Juravel discussing Machon Aleh Zayis & Sefer Mincha Ketana
With Rabbi Dr. Moshe Sokol discussing his new book, "The Snake at the Mouth of the Cave: Exploring Talmudic Narratives", which explores aggadata and related themes
With Dr. Moti Benmelech discussing Shlomo Molcho (1501 - 1532)
With Rabbi David Fohrman discussing his work at Aleph Beta and his "Parsha Companion" series
With Prof. Maoz Kahana discussing Religion and Science in Early Modern Rabbinic Culture & his new book on the topic ("A Heartless Chicken")
With Dr. Ezra Chwat discussing the Rif (Rav Yitzchak Alfasi, 1013 - 1103) and his new critical edition
With R' Alex Hool discussing the masa'os (travels) of the Bnei Yisrael in the Midbar and his new book about it, "The Desert Encampments: From Sinai to the Holy Land"
With Rabbi Pinchas Taylor discussing Judaism & the Mysterious (and his book on the subject)
With R' Moshe Flohr discussing Sefer Bikurei Yaakov on Hilchos Sukkah & Lulav
With Prof. Shmuel Feiner discussing European Jewry in the 18th Century
With R' Yechiel Goldhaber discussing the minhag of covering the shofar while making the beracha
With Rav Aaron Lopiansky discussing his new Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur Machzorim
With Prof. Andrew Porwancher discussing Alexander Hamilton and his Jewish origins and connections
With Rabbi Shnayor Burton discussing the Mitzvah of living in E'Y and his podcast series about it
With Rabbi H. Norman Strickman discussing his new translation of Yesod Moreh of the Ibn Ezra and the Ibn Ezra in general
With Dr. Jeremy Brown discussing Copernicus, the Heliocentric model, and its Jewish reception
With R' Moshe Maimon discussing Genazym Auction 10 Catalogue
With Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel discussing the Mordechai (R. Mordechai b. Hillel, d. 1298)
With Dr. Yael Ziegler discussing her new book on Megillas Eichah, "Lamentations: Faith in a Turbulent World"
With Prof. Robert Chazan discussing the Trial of the Talmud in Paris in 1240
With Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman discussing Josephus
With Dr. David Sclar discussing Ramchal (Rav Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, 1707 - 1746)
With R' Meni Even-Israel discussing his father, Rav Adin Steinsaltz & his various Seforim
With Prof. Neil Netanel discussing the history of Jewish Copyright Law.
With R' Daniel Levin discussing Rav Chasdai Crescas & Ohr Hashem
With Prof. Naomi Seidman discussing Sarah Schenirer and Bais Yaakov
With R' Yehuda Rock discussing the new Sefer, "Parshanei HaMikra" of his wife, Rabbanit Dr. Avigail Rock Z'L
With R' Moshe Kravetz and Dr. Allan Jacob discussing their new Sefer, "Emunei Am Segulah" about Ma'amad Har Sinai & Kabbolas HaTorah
With Prof. Jeffrey Gurock discussing the Jews of Harlem
With Prof. Debra Kaplan discussing Charity and the Poor in Early Modern Germany (Worms, Frankfurt, AH"U: Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbeck)
With Prof. David Berger discussing Jewish - Christian debate in the Middle Ages
Daf Yomi: With R' Moshe Schwed of AllDaf discussing various Seforim & Meforshim on Mesechtas Yoma
With Prof. Martin Lockshin discussing Rashbam
With Pearl Herzog discussing her father, R' Tovia Preschel, and his collected writings that she published (Ma'amarei Tovia)
With Dr. Pinchas Roth discussing Medieval Jewry of Provence
One year anniversary episode: About how the twitter account and podcast developed
The Sarajevo Haggadah (with Prof. Shalom Sabar)
With Prof. Benny Brown discussing the Mussar Movement
With Rabbi Netanel Wiederblank discussing his "Illuminating Jewish Thought" book series
With Prof. Yerachmiel (Robert) Brody discussing the Geonim
With R' Dovid Cohen of the cRc discussing his new book, "Alcoholic Beverages: The Halachos of alcoholic beverages, wine, and grape juice as they apply in the modern era arranged according to the order of the Shulchan Aruch"
With Mitchell First discussing who Achashverosh & Esther were historically, and the origins of Ta'anis Esther
With Dr. Gabriel Wasserman discussing Piyutei Arbah Parshiyos ("Yotzros"), Krovetz for Purim, and Piyutim in general
With Prof. Cedric Cohen-Skalli discussing Abarbnel (1437 - 1508) and his new book, "Don Isaac Abravanel: An Intellectual Biography"
With Rabbi Elchanan Adler discussing Anim Zemiros
With Rav Yehoshua Hartman discussing the Maharal of Prague ( 1512[24] - 1609) and his edition of Sifrei Maharal
With Prof. Elisheva Carlebach discussing Pinkassei Kehillot of pre-modern Europe
With R' Nechemya Sheinfeld discussing the Ibn Ezra and his commentary on the Ibn Ezra, "Daas Ezra"
With Prof. Marcin Wodziński discussing his various books on Chasidus and Historical Atlas of Hasidism
With Daniel Klein discussing Shadal (Samuel David Luzzatto, 1800 - 1865) and his new translation of Shadal on Chumash
With Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel discussing Rashi on Shas
With Rav Aaron Lopiansky discussing his (Hebrew) Seforim & Rishonim
With Dr. Martina Mampieri discussing Pope Paul IV and the Jews in the 16th Century, and her book, "Living under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Nehemiah ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (16th cent.)"
With R' Simcha Lauer discussing his book, " Learning the News: Halachic Perspectives on Current Events"
With R' Alex Hool discussing his new book, "Pharaoh: Biblical History, Egypt, And the Missing Millennium" (about the biblical Pharaoh)
With Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman discussing Chanukah & its historical sources
With R' Moshe Kravetz discussing the Sforno (Rav Ovadiah Sforno, 1475 - 1550)
With Prof. Joseph Davis discussing the Tosfos Yom Tov (Rav Yom Tov Lipmann Heller ZT'L)
A Bibliography of Pirkei Avos (with Dr. Steve Weiss)
With Prof. Joanna Weinberg discussing Azariah De' Rossi & Me'or Enayim
Daf Yomi: Discussing various seforim on Mesechtas Pesachim
With Prof. Clémence Boulouqe discussing Rav Eliyahu Benamozegh
With Prof. Pawel Maciejko discussing Rav Yonason Eybeschutz and the "Emden - Eybeschutz" controversy.
With Prof. Steven Nadler discussing Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel
With Dr. Morris Faierstein discussing the Ze'enah U-Re'enah and his new English translation
With Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein discussing his book, "God versus gods: Judaism in the age of Idolatry"
With Rabbi Mordechai Lebhar discussing Machon Magen Avot
With Prof. Sara Reguer discussing her grandfather, Rav Simcha Zelig ZT'L, and her father's memoir that she published
With Rabbi Yosie Levine discussing the Chacham Tzvi
With Dan Rabinowitz discussing his book, "The Lost Library: The Legacy of Vilna's Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust"
With Prof. Howard (Tzvi) Adelman discussing Rav Yehuda Aryeh Modena
With Yehuda Geberer of the Jewish History Soundbites Podcast
Shailos U'Teshuvos Torah Lishmah: Did the puported author Rav Yechezkel Kuchli exist or was it truly written by the Ben Ish Chai?
Solo Show discussing a few new Seforim
With R' Zecharia Holzer of Machon Al Harishonim discussing his Rosh Hashanah Machzor with Pirushei Rishonim
With Prof. Eve Krakowski discussing the Cairo Geniza
With Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel discussing the Baalei Tosafos
With Prof. Magda Teter discussing her new book, "Blood Libel: On The Trail Of An Antisemitic Myth"
With Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman discussing the Dead Sea Scrolls
With R' Yossel Housman on the history and background of the Tisha B'av Kinnos
With R' Moshe Maimon discussing his new edition of the writings of Rabeinu Avraham Ben HaRambam
With Elli Fischer discussing Translation, Rav Eliezer Melamed, Peninei Halakha and more
With Rav Shnayor Burton discussing classics of emunah & hashkafa, Tanach and more
With Prof. Adam Teller discussing his new book on the Khmelnytsky massacres (Tach-V'Tat) and the refugee crisis that followed
Introduction Show
With Prof. Michah Gottlieb of NYU discussing the Biur, Mendelssohn, Rav Hirsch and more
With Prof. Joshua Teplitsky discussing Rav Dovid Oppenheim and his library
With Feivel Schneider of Legacy Judaica
With Prof. Eric Lawee discussing his new book on Rashi, his first book on Abarbnel & more
With R' Avrohom Biderman of Artscroll discussing all things Artscroll
Twitter Live Solo (AMA)
With Natan Hirsch of the NLI discussing Seforim stores & sales in Israel, publishing houses and more
With Michelle Chesner discussing old books, Seforim, and more
With R' Yossel Housman discussing the history of Chassidus
With Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter discussing Rav Yaakov Emden (the Yaavetz)
With R' Shimon Szimonowitz of Machon Aleh Zayis on the process of publishing a Sefer today
With Prof. Marc Shapiro discussing his books, Rav Mazuz, Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak (Isadore) Twersky and more
With Onthemainline about his blog, Shadal and much more
With David Bashevkin discussing writing, his Haggada, and more
With Israel Mizrahi of Mizrahi Books about old books and seforim
Solo show about some new Seforim and discussing various Stores and Distributors
Seforimchatter #1 - Solo show, discussing how i got into all of this and some new Seforim