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About Ari Barbalat
Ari Barbalat holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of California in Los Angeles. He lives in Toronto with his family.
NBN Episodes hosted by Ari:
November 3, 2025
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is one of the most storied events of the Holocaust, yet previous accounts of have almost entirely focused on its male parti…
October 6, 2025
The Color of Choice
The extensive research literature on race has paid little attention to Armenians. Between the two world wars, they had to prove that they were free w…
October 6, 2025
House of Diggs
At the height of the civil rights movement, Charles C. Diggs Jr. (1922-1998) was the consummate power broker. In a political career spanning 1951 to 1…
October 4, 2025
As a Jew
An urgent exploration of how antisemitism has shaped Jewish identity and how Jews can reclaim their tradition, by the celebrated White House speechwri…
October 4, 2025
Music at World's End
A fascinating story of how three musicians, who escaped the Nazis, inspired Iceland's modern classical music. In Iceland in the 1930s, classical musi…
September 27, 2025
Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland
In Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland (Indiana University Press, 2019), Árni Heimir Ingólfsson provides a striking account of the dramatic…
September 26, 2025
Everyday Holiday
Because Every Day Is a Special Day on the Jewish Calendar. Giant Jewish Calendar. More than 2400 Jewish events. Holidays - Biblical - History. Hundred…
September 26, 2025
Stalin's Gamble
Shedding light on the origins of the Second World War in Europe, Stalin's Gamble: The Search for Allies Against Hitler, 1930-1936 (University of Toron…
September 6, 2025
Christ's Torah
This volume explores the creation of the collection now known as the New Testament. While it is generally accepted that it did not emerge as a collect…
September 4, 2025
The Menzies Watershed
The eleven years that passed between the 1943 and the 1954 elections were arguably some of the most pivotal in Australian history. This was a period …
August 27, 2025
The Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine
The Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine: An Anatomy of the Holodomor (CIUS Press, 2018) is a distillation of thirty years of study of the topic by one of U…
August 26, 2025
The Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact
"On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov have reinvigorated the study of a turning point in world history. Inste…
August 22, 2025
Detention Camps in Asia
Why have Asian states - colonial and independent - imprisoned people on a massive scale in detention camps? How have detainees experienced the long m…
August 21, 2025
The Pessimists Son
The Pessimists Son: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025) is a personal depiction of life in Poland set against the Nazi and Soviet …
August 16, 2025
Beyond Violence
Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944–48 (Cambridge UP, 2014) tells a story of Polish and Slovak Holocaust survivors returnin…
August 15, 2025
Ghazālī’s Epistemology
Focusing on Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) – one of the foremost scholars and authorities in the Muslim world who is central to the Islamic intellectu…
August 13, 2025
Stalin's Great Game
The period from September 1939 to early 1942 was crucial for Soviet foreign policy and coincided with the early stages of the Second World War, includ…
August 12, 2025
Microhistories in Armenian Studies
The articles appearing in this volume were presented at a conference entitled “Microhistories in Armenian Studies” organized by the Armenian Studies P…
August 12, 2025
Corrado Cagli
As a Jewish and openly gay artist, Cagli became the target of virulent attacks, especially after Italy promulgated its racial laws in 1938. In respons…
August 8, 2025
Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity
This book explores the extraordinary story of Jewish POWs in German captivity during the Second World War - extraordinary because of the contrast betw…
August 2, 2025
Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars
Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars explores the complex interplay between violence and propaganda during the continent's major civil confl…
July 30, 2025
Austrian Again
Austrian Again: Reclaiming a Lost Legacy is a personal memoir that follows Anne Hand's emotional and bureaucratic journey to reclaim her Austrian citi…
July 24, 2025
Israeli Documentary Poetry
Israeli Documentary Poetry: Coming of Age with the State introduces and explores documentary poetry written by Israeli poets who came of age during th…
July 22, 2025
Sitting on a Suitcase
Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories (Karnac Books, 2025) contains eighteen moving tales of disparate Jewish lives from Eliat Aram, Leslie B.…