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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 …
Jewish Studies June 22, 2020

Laughter After

Humor and the Holocaust

David Slucki et al.

Hosted by Max Kaiser
In Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press, 2020), Co-editors David Slucki, Loti Smorgon Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture at the Australian Centre for …
Jewish Studies May 15, 2020

Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution

Brendan McGeever

Hosted by Max Kaiser
In Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Dr Brendan McGeever, Lecturer in Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London, traces the complex history of the Antisemitism in the …
Jewish Studies March 16, 2020

A Specter Haunting Europe

The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism

Paul Hanebrink

Hosted by Max Kaiser
In A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism (Harvard University Press, 2018), Paul Hanebrink, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, traces the complex history of the …
Jewish Studies October 25, 2019

Black Power, Jewish Politics

Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s

Marc Dollinger

Hosted by Max Kaiser
In Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s (Brandeis University Press, 2018), Professor Marc Dollinger who holds the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies and …
Jewish Studies July 23, 2019

Sing This at My Funeral

A Memoir of Fathers and Sons

David Slucki

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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 …
Jewish Studies April 25, 2019

Whitechapel Noise

Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London, 1884-1914

Vivi Lachs

Hosted by Max Kaiser
In Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London, 1884-1914 (Wayne State University Press, 2018), Vivi Lachs, social and cultural historian, Yiddishist, performer, and associate research fellow …
Jewish Studies January 28, 2019

On the Mediterranean and the Nile

The Jews of Egypt

Aimée Israel-Pelletier

Hosted by Max Kaiser
In On the Mediterranean and the Nile: The Jews of Egypt (Indiana University Press, 2017), Aimée Israel-Pelletier, Professor and Head of French at the University of Texas at Arlington, looks …
Jewish Studies November 12, 2018

A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945

Politics, Culture, and Society

Michael Brenner

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In A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society (Indiana University Press, 2018), edited by Michael Brenner, Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University …
Jewish Studies October 29, 2018

The Marriage Plot

Or, How Jews Fell In Love With Love, And With Literature

Naomi Seidman

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In The Marriage Plot, Or, How Jews Fell In Love With Love, And With Literature (Stanford University Press, 2016), Naomi Seidman, Chancellor Jackman Professor in the Arts at the University …
Jewish Studies October 23, 2018

The Book Smugglers

Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis

David E. Fishman

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In The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis (ForeEdge, 2017), David E. Fishman, Professor of Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary …
Jewish Studies July 24, 2018

Bestiarium Judaicum

Unnatural Histories of the Jews

Jay Geller

Hosted by Max Kaiser
In Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of the Jews (Fordham University Press, 2017), Jay Geller, Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Culture at Vanderbilt Divinity School and the Vanderbilt University Jewish Studies …
Jewish Studies July 23, 2018

Werner Scholem

A German Life

Mirjam Zadoff

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In Werner Scholem: A German Life (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), Mirjam Zadoff, Director of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, presents a biography of an …
Jewish Studies April 2, 2018

How the Wise Men Got to Chelm

The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition

Ruth von Bernuth

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In How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition (New York University Press, 2017), Ruth von Bernuth, Associate Professor in the Department …
Jewish Studies March 9, 2018

German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife

A Tenuous Legacy

Vivian Liska

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In German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy (Indiana University Press, 2016), Vivian Liska, Professor of German Literature and Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University …
Jewish Studies December 18, 2017

Jews and Leftist Politics

Judaism, Israel, Antisemitics, and Gender

Jack Jacobs, ed.

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In Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism and Gender (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Jack Jacobs, Professor of Political Science at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University …
Jewish Studies October 18, 2017

Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic

Blood and Faith

Ronnie Perelis

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In Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic: Blood and Faith (Indiana University Press, 2016), Ronnie Perelis, Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay Chair and Associate Professor of Sephardic …
Jewish Studies September 25, 2017

Strangers in Berlin

Modern Jewish Literature between East and West, 1919-1933

Rachel Seelig

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In Strangers in Berlin: Modern Jewish Literature between East and West, 1919-1933 (University of Michigan Press, 2016), Rachel Seelig, Visiting Scholar in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at …
Jewish Studies August 14, 2017

The Right to Difference

French Universalism and the Jews

Maurice Samuels

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In The Right To Difference: French Universalism and the Jews (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Maurice Samuels, Betty Jane Anylan Professor of French and director of the Yale Program for …
Jewish Studies July 24, 2017

Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War

Gerben Zaagsma

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In Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), Gerben Zaagsma, Senior researcher at the centre for contemporary and digital history at the University of …
Jewish Studies June 19, 2017

The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia

Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power

Andrew Sloin

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In The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power (Indian University Press, 2017), Andrew Sloin, Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College of the City University of New …
Jewish Studies May 30, 2017

A Land Without Borders

My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank

Nir Baram

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In A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank (Text Publishing Company, 2017), Nir Baram, award winning author and journalist, gives a fascinating account of …
Jewish Studies May 15, 2017

Gershom Scholem

An Intellectual Biography

Amir Engel

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In Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography (University of Chicago Press, 2017) , Amir Engel, a lecturer in the German Department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, positions Gershom Scholem's work …
Jewish Studies May 8, 2017

Berlin for Jews

A Twenty-First Century Companion

Leonard Barkan

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In Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First Century Companion (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Leonard Barkan, the class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton, examines the complex histories of Jewish life …