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Jewish Studies
Interviews with scholars of Judaism about their new books.
September 18, 2024
The German Stranger
Leo Strauss was a German-Jewish emigrant to the United States, an author, professor and political philosopher. Born in 1899 in Kirchhain in the Kingdo…
September 18, 2024
The October 7 War
A harrowing account on the frontlines of the war between Israel and Hamas, The October 7 War: Israel's Battle for Security in Gaza (Wicked Son, 2024) …
September 15, 2024
Teaching Israel
Today I talked to Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold's their book Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field (Brandeis UP, 2023). In this discuss…
September 14, 2024
Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas
Dr. Aviad Moreno is himself an incarnation of entwined homelands. He is an Israeli whose grandfather moved from Morocco to Venezuela, sent his son bac…
September 13, 2024
The Lord by Wisdom Founded the Earth
The foundation of the earth, its division from the heavens and the waters, God's provision of all of nature as well as human and animal life, God's re…
September 12, 2024
Reading Genesis
For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional intere…
September 11, 2024
Modern Musar
Today I talked to Geoffrey D. Claussen about Modern Musar: Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought (Jewish Publication Society, 2022). How do modern Jews…
September 8, 2024
Dissident Rabbi
In 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that the redemption of the…
September 6, 2024
Unsettled
Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine (NYU Press, 2024) digs into the experiences of young Jewish Americans who engage wi…
September 6, 2024
Second Generation
From Jeremy Salamon the chef and owner of Agi’s Counter in Brooklyn comes 100 classic Hungarian and Jewish recipes reinvented for a new generation – S…
September 6, 2024
Unorthodox Kin
Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging (U California Press, 2017) is a lively, readable exploration of "chosen" ident…
September 5, 2024
Fate Unknown
In Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2023), Dan Stone tells the story of the last great…
September 4, 2024
Hate Speech and Academic Freedom
Completed shortly before Hamas carried out its barbaric October massacre, Cary Nelson's Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on B…
August 30, 2024
Write like a Man
In the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly m…
August 28, 2024
Notes from the Field
We start this season of International Horizons with an interview with Dr. Eli Karetny, an American political scientist and administrative director o…
August 27, 2024
Cities of Refuge
In the years following Hitler’s rise to power, German Jews faced increasingly restrictive antisemitic laws, and many responded by fleeing to more tole…
August 27, 2024
Kohelet's Cocktail
Dive into the timeless wisdom of Ecclesiastes in Jay Garfinkel's groundbreaking work, Kohelet's Cocktail: Beyond the Pursuit of Happiness (Illuminated…
August 24, 2024
EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019
Nearly 50 years since the European Foreign Ministers issued their first declaration on the conflict between Israel and Palestine in 1971, the European…
August 23, 2024
Between Community and Collaboration
The first comprehensive, comparative study of the 'Jewish Councils' in the Netherlands, Belgium and France during Nazi rule. In the postwar period, th…
August 21, 2024
Pogrom
In what has become perhaps the most infamous example of modern anti-Jewish violence prior to the Holocaust, the Kishinev pogrom should have been a sma…