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The Five Books: Jewish Authors on the Books That Shaped Them — 63 episodes
Dara Horn on Reclaiming the Jewish Question
Rebekah Lowin on Crafting Jewish Joy
Bruce Feiler on Making Meaning, One Ritual at a Time
Rachel Goldberg-Polin on Surviving Grief
Portia Elan on the Future We Choose
Dahlia Adler on Writing a Spicy Modern Orthodox Romance
Laurie Frankel on the Jewish Ability to Hold Multiple Truths
Nicholas Lemann on Being Jewish in the Shadow of the American South
Fran Fabriczki on “Homelooseness” and a Love Letter to Los Angeles
Adeena Sussman on Flavor as a Jewish Language
Alicia Jo Rabins on Composing a Life of Meaning
Matti Friedman on the Stories that Built a People
Zeeva Bukai on the Fragments that Make Us Whole
A Purim Episode with Rob Kutner On Where Comedy and Judaism Overlap [REBROADCAST]
Allegra Goodman on “This is Not About Us” (Or So We Tell Ourselves)
Jason Diamond on being a (Jewish-)American Author
Sasha Vasilyuk on the Silences of the Soviet-Jewish Past
Samantha Ellis on Becoming a Keeper of Her Ancestral Language
Judith Viorst on Happiness, Agency, and the Art of Aging
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg on Re-envisioning the Jewish Future
BONUS: Introducing Jewish Insights with Justin Pines
Jake Cohen on the Magic of Gathering Around the Table
Sam Sussman on Bob Dylan and Being his Mother’s Son
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl on Finding Yourself in the Story
Kitty Zeldis On Passing and the Relief of Being “Kitty”
Ilana Kurshan on Books as Blueprints for Life
Sarah Hurwitz on Reclaiming Our Jewish Story
Toby Lloyd on Biblical Horror and being a Jewish Atheist
Sharon Kurtzman on the Danger that Lingered Post Holocaust
Rachel Cockerell on The Zionist Dream That Sailed to Galveston
BONUS: Introducing The Book of Life Podcast
Esther Levy Chehebar on Marriage, Sisterhood, and the Weight of Tradition
Elizabeth Graver on Lost Worlds and New Doorways
Jessica Berger Gross on Cultural Judaism and Creative Resistance
Mary Morris on Hidden Histories and Jewish Identities
Announcement: Now an Always-On, Every Other Week Show, and a Newsletter!
Rabbi Sharon Brous on Finding Her Place in the Jewish Community and Working to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
Jeremy Dauber on Jewish Literature, Pop Culture, and What The Horror Genre Reveals About America
Jill Santopolo on Being a “Pizza Bagel”, and Fiction as a Way to Make History More Human
Allison Epstein on Taking on One of Literature’s Most Notoriously Antisemitic Characters
Nicole Graev Lipson on the Attention, Intention, and Complexity of Mothers
Gayle Forman on Judy Blume, Taylor Swift, and the Innate Goodness of Young People
Jennifer Weiner on Pushing Back Against De-Jewified Last Names, “Women’s Fiction,” and Activism in the Face of Despair
Dara Horn on Being the Lorax at Her Seder Table
BONUS: Dara Horn on Tevye the Dairyman
Georgia Hunter on Discovering her Family’s Jewish History and Kindness as Resistance
Rob Kutner on Writing for The Daily Show, Conan, and How Comedy and Judaism Overlap
Allegra Goodman on Making the Exotic Familiar, and Finding the Modern in Ancient Words
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Tova Mirvis on Community, Belonging, and Forgiveness
Bonny Reichert on Food, Fear, and Finding Beauty
Jessica Elisheva Emerson on Belief, Identity, and Women’s Desire
Elyssa Friedland on Being a First Generation American and Why Representation in Books Matters
Gila Pfeffer on Finding Meaning and Humor in the Darkest Times
Samantha Greene Woodruff on Blacklists and being a 'Christmas Tree Jew'
Yehuda Kurtzer on Grappling with History and Memory
Zibby Owens on the Healing Power of the Written Word
Francine Klagsbrun on Embracing and Reshaping Tradition
Jean Meltzer on ‘Jewitches’ and Jewish Joy
Yael van der Wouden on Rage, Desire, and Magic
Benjamin Resnick on the Enduring Precariousness of Jewish Life
Coming Soon: The Five Books