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NBN Episodes hosted by Rachel:
Literary Studies
October 9, 2020
Teaching Jewish American Literature
Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein
Hosted by Rachel Adelman
In this interview, Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein (editors), engage our listeners in a conversation about different approaches to teaching Jewish American Literature, complicating what it means to be “American” …
Gender Studies
July 15, 2020
Holiness and Transgression
Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth
Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
Hosted by Rachel Adelman
In this interview, Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel discusses her first book, Holiness and Transgression Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth, with Rachel Adelman. Translated by Eugene Matansky and published …
Gender Studies
June 25, 2020
The Obligated Self
Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought
Mara Benjamin
Hosted by Rachel Adelman
In this talk, Rachel Adelman engages Mara Benjamin in a conversation about her most recent book, The Obligated Self—Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought (Indiana University Press, 2018). Benjamin contends that …
Jewish Studies
June 11, 2020
Jewish Theology Unbound
James A. Diamond
Hosted by Rachel Adelman
James A. Diamond discusses his new book, Jewish Theology Unbound (Oxford University Press, 2018), with Rachel Adelman. This book challenges the widespread caricature of Judaism as a religion of law …
American Studies
September 25, 2019
American Judaism
A History (2nd edition)
Jonathan Sarna
Hosted by Rachel Adelman
American Judaism: A History (Yale University Press; second edition, 2019) chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America. Tracing American Judaism from its origins in the colonial era …