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Jewish Studies January 31, 2023

The Belzec Death Camp

History, Biographies, Remembrance

Chris Webb

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Chris Webb's The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance (Ibidem, 2016) is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland, which was the first death camp to use …

German Studies

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Interviews with scholars of Germany about their new books.

Critical Theory January 30, 2023

Adorno and the Ban on Images

Sebastian Truskolaski

Hosted by Lukas Hoffman
Adorno and the Ban on Images (Bloomsbury, 2022) upends some of the myths that have come to surround the work of the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno – not least amongst …
Jewish Studies January 28, 2023

The Holocaust in Romania

The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944

Radu Ioanid

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), Radu Ioanid explores in great detail the physical destruction of Romania's …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel January 27, 2023

The Aryan Jesus

Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany

Susannah Heschel

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton UP, 2010) documents the process, and relative ease, with which institutions of higher learning and the religious establishment …
Eastern European Studies January 25, 2023

In the Shadow of the Holocaust

Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice

Michael Fleming

Hosted by Piotr Kosicki
In the midst of the Second World War, Central and East European governments-in-exile struggled to make their voices heard as they reported back to the Allies and sought to reach …
Medieval History January 21, 2023

Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517

Wolfgang P. Müller

Hosted by Jana Byars
Wolfgang Muller, Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). From the establishment of a coherent doctrine on sacramental marriage to the eve of the Reformation, late medieval …
Early Modern History January 16, 2023

Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe

Stuart Carroll

Hosted by Jana Byars
Stuart Carroll's Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2023) transforms our understanding of Europe between 1500 and 1800 by exploring how ordinary people felt about their enemies and …
Jewish Studies January 16, 2023

The Prisoners of Breendonk

Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp

James M. Deem

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Fort Breendonk was built in the early 1900s to protect Antwerp, Belgium, from possible German invasion. Damaged at the start of World War I, it fell into disrepair . …
General History January 10, 2023

Heidegger in Ruins

Between Philosophy and Ideology

Richard Wolin

Hosted by Ryan Tripp
What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important philosopher? Martin Heidegger's sympathies for the conservative …
Eastern European Studies January 6, 2023

Ghosts of War

Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus

Franziska Exeler

Hosted by Jill Massino
How do states and societies confront the legacies of war and occupation, and what do truth, guilt, and justice mean in that process?  In Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and …
Jewish Studies December 28, 2022

Writing Occupation

Jewish Émigré Voices in Wartime France

Julia Elsky

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Among the Jewish writers who emigrated from Eastern Europe to France in the 1910s and 1920s, a number chose to switch from writing in their languages of origin to writing …
Russian and Eurasian Studies December 26, 2022

Stalingrad Lives!

Stories of Combat and Survival

Ian Garner

Hosted by Yelizaveta Raykhlina
In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler’s army ran rampant. With the fate of the USSR hanging in the …
Writ Large December 21, 2022

On Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time"

A Discussion with Peter Gordon

Peter Gordon

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Martin Heidegger did not like small thoughts. He was fascinated by the most expansive questions humans can ask themselves. Questions like: Why are we here at all? Why do things …
Women's History December 20, 2022

Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002

Jane Freeland

Hosted by Rebecca Turkington
In Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002 (Oxford University Press, 2022), Jane Freeland traces the development of the shelter movement in East and West Germany. In …
Jewish Studies December 17, 2022

The Holocaust in the Crimea and the North Caucasus

Kiril Feferman

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Kiril Feferman's The Holocaust in the Crimea and the North Caucasus (Yad Vashem, 2016) presents a comprehensive account of the Jews in the Crimea and the North Caucasus in the …
Genocide Studies December 15, 2022

Betrayed

Child Sex Abuse in the Holocaust

Beverley Chalmers

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
Beverley Chalmers's book Betrayed: Child Sex Abuse in the Holocaust (Grosvenor House, 2020) exposes a taboo aspect of Holocaust history; the sexual abuse of children. Children were sexually assaulted in ghettos …
Jewish Studies December 12, 2022

Nearly the New World

The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945

Joanna Newman

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge from the …
Russian and Eurasian Studies December 10, 2022

Makhno and Memory

Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917-1921

Sean Patterson

Hosted by Aaron Weinacht
In the chaos of the end of WWI, the Russian Civil War, and a brief period of Ukrainian independence there occurred a series of massacres of German Mennonites. Sean Patterson's …
Writ Large December 9, 2022

On Hans Blumenberg's "The Legitimacy of the Modern Age"

A Discussion with Martin Jay

Martin Jay

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Those of us living today generally think of ourselves as modern, that we live in modern times, and that we are very different from the people of the past. But …
Jewish Studies December 6, 2022

Wartime North Africa

A Documentary History, 1934-1950

Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein's book Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950 (Stanford UP, 2022), the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives …