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Interviews with scholars of genocide about their new books.

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The Shtetl: Myth and Reality

February 27, 2026

The Shtetl

Samuel Kassow
Hosted by YIVO Institute

Even those who do not know much Yiddish have probably heard the word “shtetl,” but what does that word mean exactly? Can we just say that it was a sma…

Cindy Schweich Handler, "A German Jew's Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany" (McFarland, 2025)

February 16, 2026

A German Jew's Triumph

Cindy Schweich Handler
Hosted by Ilana Maymind

Cindy Schweich Handler’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Redbook, The Huffington Post, and a host of other nat…

Alex Alvarez and Richard R. Fernandez, "Lethal Elites: The Institutions and Professionals That Made the Holocaust Possible" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

February 15, 2026

Lethal Elites

Alex Alvarez and Richard R. Fernández
Hosted by Kelly McFall

Lethal Elites: The Institutions and Professionals That Made the Holocaust Possible (Bloomsbury, 2025) is an eye-opening book highlights the role of el…

Tom Menger, "The Colonial Way of War:  Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German and Dutch Empires, c. 1890-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

January 30, 2026

The Colonial Way of War

Tom Menger
Hosted by Kelly McFall

The violence of colonial wars between 1890 and 1914 is often thought to have been uniquely shaped by the nature of each of the European empires. The C…

Andrew I. Port, "Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust" (Harvard UP, 2023)

January 11, 2026

Never Again

Andrew I. Port
Hosted by Kelly McFall

As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a dilemma. Should the Federal Republic deploy its military to the Ba…

Alexa Hagerty, "Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains" (Crown, 2023)

January 6, 2026

Still Life with Bones

Alexa Hagerty
Hosted by Kelly McFall

In Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Crown, 2023), anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forensi…

Jürgen Zimmerer, "Memory Wars: New German Historical Consciousness" (Reclam Verlag, 2023)

January 3, 2026

Memory Wars

Jürgen Zimmerer

Erinnerungskämpfe: Neues deutsches Geschichtsbewusstsein (Ditzingen: Reclam, 2023) is a new, provocative volume on German memory cultures and politic…

Lisa Silverman, "The Postwar Antisemite: Culture and Complicity After the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2025)

December 28, 2025

The Postwar Antisemite

Lisa Silverman
Hosted by Paul Lerner

In his influential Anti-Semite and Jew, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre observed "If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him." In …

Anna Hájková, "People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

December 26, 2025

People without History are Dust

Anna Hájková
Hosted by Roland Clark

Queerness remains one of the most stigmatized and overlooked aspects of Holocaust history, often erased due to the lingering homophobia of survivors. …

Martin Herskovitz, "Son of the Shoah: Poems from a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor" (McFarland, 2025)

December 26, 2025

Son of the Shoah

Martin Herskovitz
Hosted by Drora Arussy

As a third generation Holocaust survivor, this was an important conversation with a second generation survivor. Marty has been conducting workshops on…

Mark Celinscak and Mehnaz Afridi, eds., "Global Approaches to the Holocaust: Memory, History and Representation" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)

December 16, 2025

Global Approaches to the Holocaust

Mark Celinscak
Hosted by Kelly McFall

The field of contemporary Holocaust studies is increasingly international in perspective. These approaches do not detach themselves from European hist…

Adam Jones, "Sites of Genocide" (Routledge, 2022)

November 23, 2025

Sites of Genocide

Adam Jones
Hosted by Kelly McFall

Adam Jones will be familiar to anyone interested in the field of genocide studies. He's published one of the leading textbooks in the field. He's bee…

Radio ReOrient 13.4: “The Repression of the Uyghurs,” with Zumretay Arkin, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward

November 7, 2025

Radio ReOrient 13.4: “The Repression of the Uyghurs,” with Zumretay Arkin, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward

Hosted by Radio Reorient

In this episode, Chella Ward and Claudia Radiven were in conversation with Zumretay Arkin, discussing the Uyghur genocide in East Turkestan. Zumretay …

Elizabeth R. Hyman, "The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising" (Harper, 2025)

November 3, 2025

The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto

Elizabeth R. Hyman
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is one of the most storied events of the Holocaust, yet previous accounts of have almost entirely focused on its male parti…

Mark Mazower, "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" (Penguin Press, 2025)

October 26, 2025

On Antisemitism

Mark Mazower
Hosted by Roland Clark

What do we mean when we talk about antisemitism? A thoughtful, vital new intervention from the award-winning historian. For most of history, antisemit…

Hamid Dabashi, "After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization" (Haymarket, 2025)

October 15, 2025

After Savagery

Hamid Dabashi
Hosted by Joe Williams

In this episode, we speak with Hamid Dabashi about his new book, After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization (Haymarket, …

Genocide Studies International Vol 16.1, Special Issue on The Future of Genocide Education

October 7, 2025

Genocide Studies International Vol 16.1

Hosted by Kelly McFall

Why should we ask students to learn about genocides? What outcomes do we aim for from this learning? How successful are we being and how can we do be…

Timothy Williams, "Memory Politics After Mass Violence: Attributing Roles in the Memoryscape" (Bristol UP, 2025)

September 27, 2025

Memory Politics After Mass Violence

Timothy Williams
Hosted by Kelly McFall

Memory Politics After Mass Violence: Attributing Roles in the Memoryscape (Bristol UP, 2025) explores how political actors draw on memories of violent…

Shakirah E. Hudani, "Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

September 18, 2025

Master Plans and Minor Acts

Shakirah E. Hudani
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda (U of Chicago Press, 2024) by Dr. Shakirah Hudani examines a “material politic…

Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)

September 17, 2025

Graphic Refuge

Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2025) by Dr. Dominic Davies & Dr. Candida Rifkind is the f…