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Jewish Studies
Interviews with scholars of Judaism about their new books.
June 13, 2026
The Legacy of Chaim Grade
Chaim Grade was born in 1910 in Vilna, Poland. In his youth, Grade was a student of the Novaredok Musar Yeshiva and of Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz. He wa…
June 12, 2026
God and the First Families
What if the book of Genesis is not only the story of humanity’s first family, but also the story of God learning how to parent? In this episode, Rabbi…
June 9, 2026
Out of the Sky
Was it one of the war’s most memorable feats of valor or an act of desperation, even madness? In Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe…
June 7, 2026
The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau
The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau examines Auschwitz-Birkenau as both a site and a symbol of Nazi genocide. Scholars from a range of discip…
June 6, 2026
Beyond Brutality
Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah (Brandeis University Press, 2025) draws on feminist analysis and gender studies to exami…
June 2, 2026
Spinoza, Atheist
In 1656, a young Amsterdam merchant was excommunicated by his Portuguese-Jewish community in the harshest terms it had ever used. Baruch Spinoza was…
June 1, 2026
Homes of the Past
In 1940s New York, immigrant Jewish scholars sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the U…
May 29, 2026
Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski
Sh. An-ski (Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport, 1863-1920) was a writer in Russian and Yiddish, a revolutionary, a wartime relief worker, and an ethnographer who…
May 24, 2026
Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America
In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders debated how to preserve and produce Jewish culture, fearful that growing affl…
May 22, 2026
Former Synagogues of the United States
Throughout the United States there are buildings that had been home to Jewish houses of worship, schools, and other institutions. What has happened to…
May 22, 2026
Destination Elsewhere
In this unique “history from below," Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe (Cornell University Press, 2021)…
May 20, 2026
Saving Our Survivors
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 s…
May 19, 2026
"My Heart is in the East"
The question of origins is often difficult to study because originators do not always leave a paper trail. Therefore, uncovering origins can be challe…
May 18, 2026
In the Midst of Civilized Europe
Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil o…
May 16, 2026
Under the Tenement Rooftops
The Tenement Museum preserves and interprets the personal stories of residents of two buildings on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Ninety-seven Orch…
May 13, 2026
The Light of Days
Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—som…
May 11, 2026
How to Read Mishnah and Midrash
The early rabbinic period produced two major literary formations—the Mishnah and Midrash—which have since remained central pillars of Jewish textual t…
May 11, 2026
The YIVO Sound Archive at 40
The YIVO Sound Archive houses over 20,000 recordings (including 78, 45, and 33rpm discs, open-reel and cassette tapes, piano rolls, and compact discs …
May 10, 2026
Nazi-Looted Art and Archives
The ravages of the Holocaust and post-World War II led to the theft and disappearance of art, archives, and personal assets. Join Jonathan Brent and H…
May 10, 2026
The Injustice of Noah's Curse
In Genesis 9, Noah plants a vineyard, and eventually becomes drunk and uncovered in his tent. Then we are told that Ham sees the nakedness of his fath…