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Vox Tablet — 206 episodes · page 1 of 3
So Long, Farewell
Louis Brandeis: The Jewish Boy From Kentucky Who Became a Supreme Court Legend
Tanya's Story
A New Kind of Prayerbook
Hey Mister DJ, Put a (Diaspora-Blending, Genre-Bending) Record On
From Kooky Waif to A-List Beauty: The Story of Barbra StreisandUntitled Episode
What's Free Will Got To Do With It?
Builders of a New Jerusalem
Bathe in the Waters
Beyond Drake
The Saddlemaker, the Schindler, and the Miller of Wlodowa
The Man Behind the Mustache
A Year of Firsts
For the Love of Suzie Louise: A Christmas Story
The Most Haunted Leading Man
Girlhood, Interrupted
Let ‘Freedom’ Ring: A Flutist Gives Life to Musical Celebrations of Liberations
Sweet Madeleine
Puzzle Master
The Original Gallery Girl
My Grandfather, the Secret Policeman
Beyond the Pulpit
André Aciman, Sarah Wildman, and Others Build a Summer Reading List
And Now for Something Completely Different
How One Zealous Looter Changed Jewish History in the Name of Its Preservation
Einstein: Patent Clerk, Rebel, Equivocal Zionist
Recovering From a Brain Injury, One Measuring Spoon at a Time
A Lullaby for Auschwitz
I Was a Teenage Stowaway
Abraham Lincoln’s Other Minority
We’ll Be Here All Night
The Life and Painting of Mark Rothko
Heroics Aside, the Story of Purim Is the Bible’s Greatest Farce
Convince This Man You’re a Jew, and He’ll Move You to Israel
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
An Abridged Biography of Your Great-Grandfather (Probably)
Roger Cohen Heads to South Africa To Examine His Family’s Itinerancy and Mental Illness
Holy Cow! Three Tales of Bovine Worship
Roz Chast Drags Us Kicking, Screaming, and Laughing, Into the Land of the Infirm
Hanukkah Alegre!
Forget Spelling It: Most of Us Have No Idea What This Holiday Is Even About
Being Ben-Gurion
The Life and Good Times of Norman Lear
Don’t Mess With a Missionary Man
Radical Writer Tillie Olsen Gave Her Grandson Text Fragments. He Made Music From Them.
From Etgar Keret to a Lovelorn Student in Dimona, Tales of the Book-Obsessed
A Grandfather’s Hidden Love Letters From Nazi Germany Reveal a Buried Past
Royal Contradictions: The Flawed, Paradoxical Heroism of King David
Basya Schechter Mixes Prayer Songs With Brass, Oud, and Radiohead
Love Syndrome: Israel Story, Episode 2
Leonard Bernstein: A New Look at His Rise, His Foibles, and His Impact on Music History
How a Reporter Dispelled Myths About Ultra-Orthodox Jews Gaming the System
Elvis Was Our Shabbos Goy
Faking It: Israel Story, Episode 1
The Israeli ‘This American Life’ Will Surprise Even Those Who Think They Know the Land Well
A Hasidic Girl Band Gears Up for Its Debut at a Storied Rock Venue
How a British Museum Curator Discovered Noah’s Ark Would Have Been Round
After the Holocaust, the Dutch Tried To Collect Past Due Taxes From Survivors
Centuries Ago, Jews Were Farmers Like Everybody Else. Why Did They Leave the Fields?
Rethinking the Controversial Figure Who Helped Establish the State of Israel
The Musicians of Zvuloon Dub System Marry Ethiopian Soul with Roots Reggae
Taking on Tamarind, a Staple of Syrian Jewish Cooking, With Aleppo’s Culinary Ambassador
Sigmund Freud Tried Thwarting Biographers. That Didn’t Stop Adam Phillips.
Criminal Attachments: Immigration, Family, and Fraud in Soviet Brooklyn
Is It All Doom and Gloom for Jews in Europe? Student Leaders Say No.
Joshua Ferris Takes on All Kinds of Decay in His Ambitious New Novel
Is It OK To Dance After the Holocaust? Absolutely, Says the Band Golem
Neither Anatevka Nor Auschwitz: One Man’s Revelatory Roots Trip to Poland
How an Alabama Doctor Became a Rabbi to His Patients at a Groundbreaking AIDS Clinic
Leonard Cohen’s Long, Strange, Sometimes Tortured Road to Mastering His Own Sound
‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’: Inside 19th-Century Yiddish Letter-Writing Manuals
When a Daughter of the Holocaust Meets a Daughter of the Third Reich
Reassessing Menachem Begin: Terrorist? Humanist? Man of the People?
From Baghdad to Tel Aviv and Back: An Israeli Star Digs Into His Grandfather’s Music
Fyvush Finkel: A Charming Conversation With a Longtime Serious Mensch
Pin the Crime on the Jew: Blood Libel and the Case of Mendel Beilis
As If You Needed It, Yet Another Reason To Be in Miami: The Delis
Talmud for Boys, Challah-Making for Girls—Gender Rules in Orthodox Day Schools
How the Concept of Shtetl Moved From Small-Town Reality to Mythic Jewish Idyll
The Sounds of Your Favorite Films—Including ‘Cabaret’ and ‘The Producers’—Remastered
Living the Middle-Class Dream—Beyond the Green Line, in a West Bank Settlement
Germans Want To Put the Holocaust Behind Them. One Citizen Says, ‘Not So Fast.’
Stop Texting. Make a Resolution To Reconnect the Old Fashioned Way.
The Truth About Santa, as Revealed to a Jewish Girl Circa 1980
Remembrance of Things Past: Moroccans Talk About the Jews Who Once Lived Among Them
Five Years Later, Madoff Scandal Echoes Through the Jewish Community, and Beyond
Four-Letter Words: Why Jews Have Led the Making and Defense of Obscenity in America
Sephardic Singer Flory Jagoda Keeps the Music of Her Prewar Bosnian Childhood Alive
How Thanksgiving Became Holy for One Iranian Jewish Woman and Her Family
Femmes Fatales: How German Women Used Femininity for Evil During World War II
On the Making of ‘Aftermath,’ the Controversial Polish Film Now Opening in the U.S.
The Show That Made the World Fall in Love With the Jews and Grow Nostalgic for Tevye
Painting a Portrait of a Political, Literary and Journalistic Powerhouse
From Teen Chronicler of Yiddish Curses to Global Fame: Sholem Aleichem’s Multitudes
Seeing the Strengths and Pitfalls of a Whole Country in the Lives of Seven Paratroopers
Amos Oz, 74 Years Old and a National Treasure, Still Dreams of Life on the Kibbutz
Alan Berliner’s Newest Cinematic Poem Reflects on a Relative With Alzheimer’s
Helène Aylon’s Journey From Rebbetzin to Internationally Acclaimed Feminist Artist
Ancient Roman Jews Meet Wartime Partisans on a Raucous and Lush Avant-rock Album
A New Era of Anti-Semitism Is Here. Daniel Goldhagen Blames Globalization.