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New Books in Jewish Studies
Shai Lavi, “Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political and Empirical Analysis” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Shai Lavi ed., et al.
Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel
Socio-legal, Political and Empirical Analysis
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in Israel StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society August 12, 2019 Renee Garfinkel

Once upon a time, or so we’ve been told, medical ethics were confined to the patient-doctor relationship. As long as doctors were true to their Hippocratic oaths, as long as they acted with compassion and wisdom, then all expectations were met. Life is more complicated today, and so is healthcare:... Read More
Lynn Kaye, “Time In The Babylonian Talmud: Natural and Imagined Times in Jewish Law and Narrative” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Lynn Kaye
Time In The Babylonian Talmud
Natural and Imagined Times in Jewish Law and Narrative
Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network August 8, 2019 Renee Garfinkel

The great writer Jorge Luis Borges said, “Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am... Read More
Markus Zehnder, “New Studies in the Book of Isaiah: Essays in Honor of Hallvard Hagelia” (Gorgias Press, 2014)
Markus Zehnder
New Studies in the Book of Isaiah
Essays in Honor of Hallvard Hagelia
Gorgias Press, 2014

New Books in Biblical StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & Faith August 2, 2019 Michael Morales

Who is the Suffering Servant? The book of Isaiah is one of the most beloved and well-known prophetic books among both Jews and Christians, but its references to the ‘Suffering Servant’ have been a source of controversy in scholarship. In today’s show, we speak with Dr. Markus Zehnder about the... Read More
David Slucki, “Sing This at My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons” (Wayne State UP, 2019)
David Slucki
Sing This at My Funeral
A Memoir of Fathers and Sons
Wayne State University Press, 2019

New Books in BiographyNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & Faith July 23, 2019 Max Kaiser

In Sing This at My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons (Wayne State University Press, 2019), David Slucki, Assistant Professor in the Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program at the College of Charleston, gives us a very different type of history book. Slucki’s memoir blends the scholarly and literary, grounding the story of... Read More
Naftali Rothenberg, “Rabbi Akiva’s Philosophy of Love” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Naftali Rothenberg
Rabbi Akiva’s Philosophy of Love

Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

New Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Spiritual Practice and MindfulnessNew Books Network July 19, 2019 Renee Garfinkel

Is love between man and woman the source of wisdom and the cornerstone of moral life? Naftali Rothenberg says it is, based on the works and life of the first century Jewish scholar and sage, Rabbi Akiva. In Rabbi Akiva’s Philosophy of Love (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) Rothenberg explores the philosophy... Read More
Liat Steir-Livny, “Remaking Holocaust Memory: Documentary Cinema by Third Generation Survivors in Israel” (Syracuse UP, 2019)
Liat Steir-Livny
Remaking Holocaust Memory
Documentary Cinema by Third Generation Survivors in Israel
Syracuse University Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in FilmNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in Israel StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society July 11, 2019 Yaron Peleg

The Holocaust was and remains a central trauma in Israel’s national consciousness. It has found ample expressions in Israeli documentary cinema from 1945 until the present. Third-generation Holocaust survivors were born between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. They grew up in a society which acts out the trauma... Read More
Sophia Shalmiyev, “Mother Winter: A Memoir” (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
Sophia Shalmiyev
Mother Winter
A Memoir
Simon & Schuster, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network July 10, 2019 Zoë Bossiere

The story of where we come from is such an important aspect of our personal sense of self, the forefront of many conversations about national identity, community, and belonging. In a country like the United States, where so many of us are or are descended from immigrants, the answer to... Read More