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Jewish Studies
Jewish Studies July 27, 2021

Nahmanides

Law and Mysticism

Moshe Halbertal

Hosted by Michael Morales
Rabbi Moses ben Nahman (1194–1270), known in English as Nahmanides and by the acronym the Ramban, was one of the most creative kabbalists, one of the deepest and most original …

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Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel July 16, 2021

Cultural Disjunctions

Post-Traditional Jewish Identities

Paul Mendes-Flohr

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
The identity of contemporary Jews is multifaceted, no longer necessarily defined by an observance of the Torah and God’s commandments. Indeed, the Jews of modernity are no longer exclusively Jewish …
Jewish Studies July 14, 2021

Lamentations

Faith in a Turbulent World

Yael Ziegler

Hosted by Michael Morales
The Biblical book of Lamentations contains a whirlwind of emotional responses to tragedy and suffering—expressing anger, doubt, and confusion—and yet its central message is one of deep hope and trust …
Jewish Studies July 14, 2021

Samuel

The Making of the Monarchy, Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel

David Arnovitz

Hosted by Michael Morales
Samuel: The Making of the Monarchy, a volume of The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel with Koren Publishers, offers an innovative and refreshing approach to the Hebrew Bible. By fusing …
Religion July 9, 2021

Ashkenazi Herbalism

Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews

Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Until now, the herbal traditions of the Ashkenazi people have remained unexplored and shrouded in mystery. Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews (North Atlantic Books, 2021) …
Jewish Studies July 9, 2021

Fragile Finitude

A Jewish Hermeneutical Theology

Michael Fishbane

Hosted by David Gottlieb
Perhaps no scholar has exerted a more decisive influence on the study of Jewish thought and theology over the past half century than Michael Fishbane. Continuing his recent engagement with …
Jewish Studies July 9, 2021

Jewish Bible Translations

Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress

Leonard Greenspoon

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
In his book Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress (Jewish Publication Society, 2020), Leonard Greenspoon is the first to examine thoroughly Jewish Bible translations from the third century BCE to …
Jewish Studies July 8, 2021

Talks on the Parasha

Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz

Hosted by Michael Morales
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz (11 July 1937 – 7 August 2020), an Israeli Chabad Chasidic rabbi, teacher, philosopher, author, and translator, has been compared to Rashi and Maimonides in terms …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel July 2, 2021

Theological Stains

Art Music and the Zionist Project

Assaf Shelleg

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project (Oxford UP, 2020) offers the first in-depth study of the development of art music in Israel from the mid-twentieth century to the …
General History July 2, 2021

Thou Art the Man

The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages

Ruth Mazo Karras

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today on the podcast, Ruth Mazo Karras, the Lecky Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin talks about her new book, Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in …
Jewish Studies July 1, 2021

Ideas

Bereshit

Sina Kahen

Hosted by Makena Mezistrano
The Torah — the Bible — is Judaism’s crown. The ideas gleaned from it have improved and advanced human civilization. In the first two installments of his series, Ideas (202 …
Jewish Studies June 25, 2021

Polacos in Argentina

Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture

Mariusz Kalczewiak

Hosted by Max Kaiser
In Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture (University of Alabama Press, 2020), Dr. Mariusz Kałczewiak, senior research associate and lecturer in the …
Biblical Studies June 23, 2021

Luke's Jewish Eschatology

The National Restoration of Israel in Luke-Acts

Isaac W. Oliver

Hosted by Michael Morales
Does the author of Luke-Acts write off the Jewish people, or does his presentation demonstrate that hopes for the restoration of Israel were very much still alive within the early …
Christian Studies June 10, 2021

Defending the Faith

Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century

Hugh McLeod and Todd Weir

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Todd H. Weir and Hugh McLeod, two leading historians of religion, have teamed up to edit a volume in the Proceedings of the British Academy that explores how conflicts between secular worldviews …
Genocide Studies June 10, 2021

Drunk on Genocide

Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany

Edward B. Westermann

Hosted by Kelly McFall
The title of Edward Westermann's new book, Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany (Cornell University Press, published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2021) …
Eastern European Studies May 31, 2021

Conscious History

Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust

Natalia Aleksiun

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Thoroughly researched, Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2021) highlights the historical scholarship that is one of the lasting legacies of interwar …
Genocide Studies May 28, 2021

Warsaw Ghetto Police

The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation

Katarzyna Person

Hosted by Steven Seegel
In Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation (Cornell University Press/US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2021) , Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates …
Jewish Studies May 27, 2021

Authentically Orthodox

A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life

Zev Eleff

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life (Wayne State University Press, 2020), by Zev Eleff, challenges the current historical paradigm in the study of Orthodox Judaism and other tradition-bound …
Jewish Studies May 26, 2021

Forging Ties, Forging Passports

Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora

Devi Mays

Hosted by Makena Mezistrano
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (Stanford University Press, 2020) is a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states …
Academic Life May 20, 2021

A Conversation with Jessica Kirzane about Yiddish Studies

Jessica Kirzane

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …