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Genocide Studies March 20, 2023

From Discrimination to Death

Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens

Melanie 0'Brien

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Melanie 0'Brien's book From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens (Routledge, 2022) studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide. Using …

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Genocide Studies March 15, 2023

Survivors Uncensored

100+ Testimonies from Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide

Ribara Uwariraye et al.

Hosted by Christopher Davey
Authentic, harrowing, and inspirational, Survivors Uncensored contains more than 100 recollections of events narrated by those who lived through the tragic events when Rwanda turned to darkness. The diversity of …
Military History March 13, 2023

Birds of Prey

Hitler's Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland

Philip W. Blood

Hosted by AJ Woodhams
Birds of Prey: Hitler's Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland (Ibidem Press, 2021) is a microhistory of the Nazi occupation of Białowieźa Forest, Poland’s national park. The narrative …
Jewish Studies March 10, 2023

The Butterfly and the Axe

Omer Bartov

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Spring 1944. A Jewish family is murdered in a remote Ukrainian village. Who were they? Who were the killers? Three generations later, an Israeli woman and a British man of …
Jewish Studies March 8, 2023

The Sobibor and Treblinka Death Camps

A Discussion with Chris Webb

Chris Webb

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Today I talked to historian Chris Web about two books detailing the workings of the Nazi extermination camps:  Chris Webb, The Sobibor Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance (Ibidem Verlag, 2017)Chris Webb …
Jewish Studies March 7, 2023

If We Had Wings We Would Fly to You

A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction 1941-42

Kiril Feferman

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
If We Had Wings We Would Fly to You: A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction 1941-42 (Academic Studies Press, 2020) is the first work in any language that offers both …
Genocide Studies March 4, 2023

To Save Heaven and Earth

Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide

Jennie E. Burnet

Hosted by Kelly McFall
In To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide (Cornell UP, 2023), Jennie E. Burnet considers people who risked their lives in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of Tutsi …
Jewish Studies March 3, 2023

A Hidden Jewish Child from Belgium

Survival, Scars and Healing

Francine Lazarus

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Francine Lazarus survived WWII in Belgium hidden with strangers, isolated from her family, and moved from place to place. She witnessed murder and was often injured herself. With her father …
Genocide Studies February 27, 2023

Why?

Explaining the Holocaust

Peter Hayes

Hosted by Joseph Tasca
Peter Hayes's book Why? Explaining the Holocaust (Norton, 2017) explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust: Why …
Genocide Studies February 24, 2023

The Politics of Genocide

From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect

Jeffrey S. Bachman

Hosted by Susan Thomson
Why have the founding members of the United Nations (the P5) evaded accountability for their crimes of genocide? Jeff Bachman, of the American University School of International Service, provides an …
Jewish Studies February 24, 2023

More on Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust

A Discussion with Jack Comforty

Jack Comforty and Martha Aladjem Bloomfield

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
This is a continuation of a discussion with Jack Comforty about his book (with Martha Aladjem Bloomfield) The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021). The first …
Genocide Studies February 22, 2023

In the Shadow of Genocide

Justice and Memory Within Rwanda

Stephanie Wolfe, Matthew Kane and Tawia Ansah

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Stephanie Wolfe, Matthew Kane and Tawia Ansah's In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda (Routledge, 2023) brings together scholars and practitioners for a unique inter-disciplinary exploration of …
Jewish Studies February 15, 2023

Our People

Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust

Rūta Vanagaitė and Efraim Zuroff

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Our People: Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) traces the quest for the truth about the Holocaust in Lithuania by two ostensible enemies: Rūta a descendant of the …
Jewish Studies February 13, 2023

The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust

Jacky Comforty with Martha Aladjem Bloomfield

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust (Lexington Books, 2021) collects narratives of Bulgarian Jews who survived the Holocaust. Through the analysis of eye-witness testimonies, archival documents …
Canadian Studies February 13, 2023

Canadian Witnesses to the Horrors of the Holocaust

A Discussion with Mark Celinscak

Mark Celinscak

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Mark Celinscak, the author of Kingdom of Night: Witnesses to the Holocaust published by the University of Toronto Press in 2022. Although liberated …
General History February 12, 2023

Stutthof Diaries Collection

For Truth & Honor

Tore Jørgensen

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In the early days of World War II, as Nazi Germany brutally invaded and occupied neighboring countries around Europe, hundreds of Norwegian police officers were commanded to carry out the …
Scholarly Communication February 2, 2023

Monumental Names

Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow

Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow (Routledge, 2022) asks us to consider: what stands behind the propensity to remember victims of mass atrocities by their personal …
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 …
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 …