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Jewish Studies
Interviews with scholars of Judaism about their new books.
May 8, 2026
Antisemitism
History teaches that antisemitism is a disease which begins with the Jews but does not end with them. Once antisemitism is unleashed, it knows no boun…
May 8, 2026
Jewish Anarchist Women 1920–1950
Anarchist theory includes the belief in freedom for all - that no one person, nor group of people, should have power over any others; that individuals…
May 6, 2026
Yiddish: Biography of a Language
Jeffrey Shandler’s new book, Yiddish: Biography of a Language (Oxford UP, 2020), presents the story of Yiddish, the defining vernacular of Ashkenazi J…
May 5, 2026
A Lingering Legacy
Aya Elyada is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on German and German-Jew…
May 3, 2026
Rambam Mishne Torah, Volume 1
The Rambam, Maimonides, was one of the intellectual giants of world history. His greatest and most ambitious work was the Mishne Torah. And now the St…
May 3, 2026
The Formation of Psalms 1–3 and the Arrangement of the Hebrew Psalter
The shape and shaping of the Psalter continues to be one of the more fascinating areas of biblical research. In his recent monograph on Psalm 1-3, Eri…
May 3, 2026
Edge of Catastrophe
Erich Fromm, the prominent twentieth-century public intellectual and psychoanalyst, was recognized for his courageous stand against fascism, racism, a…
May 1, 2026
Hebrew Orientalism
In the decades before the establishment of a Jewish state in 1948, native and immigrant Jews in Palestine mediated between Jewish and Arab cultures wh…
April 28, 2026
The Lost World of African American Cantors 1915–1953
Histories of Black-Jewish cultural interaction often focus on how Jews adopted and adapted Black vernacular music—ragtime, jazz, swing, R&B, blues—as …
April 26, 2026
Where Are You?
Where are you—spiritually, emotionally, and morally? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with Rabbi Josh Franklin to discuss his book Where Are…
April 26, 2026
The History of Birobidzhan
In this episode, Alisa interviews Dr. Gennady Estraikh. His book titled, The History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia (Blo…
April 23, 2026
I, Wandering Jew
The story behind the mythical figure of "the Wandering Jew" is one of the most fascinating tales in European history. In I, Wandering Jew, National Je…
April 23, 2026
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt
Slavery was a key part of pre-modern Islamic society, spanning from soldiers to concubines. And one of the most revealing repositories of evidence we …
April 20, 2026
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
In their anthology, In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union (Stanford University Press, 2026), Sasha Sen…
April 20, 2026
Am Yisrael High
Mentioned in the Bible and discussed in numerous traditional texts, cannabis has long been a part of Jewish life. For millennia, Jews have been buying…
April 18, 2026
Laughter and Leadership
We laugh without thinking — but what if laughter is one of the most revealing human acts? In this episode of The Van Leer Institute Series On Ideas,…
April 18, 2026
Dybbuks, Golems, S. An-ski, and Jewish Legends in Times of Fear
S. An-ski’s play The Dybbuk, a story of possession set in a shtetl (think The Exorcist meets Fiddler on the Roof), is the foundation of modern Jewish …
April 16, 2026
The Barton Brothers, Mickey Katz, and Others
In the years immediately following the Second World War, the Barton Brothers, an anarchic Catskill comedy duo, began recording humorous macaronic (tha…
April 14, 2026
Third Ear
This illuminating book Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening (Catapult, 2025) weaves personal stories of a multilingual upbringin…