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About Geraldine Gudefin
Geraldine Gudefin is a modern Jewish historian researching Jewish migrations, family life, and legal pluralism. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore, and is completing a book titled An Impossible Divorce? East European Jews and the Limits of Legal Pluralism in France, 1900-1939.NBN Episodes hosted by Geraldine:
March 17, 2026
Political Undesirables
Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq (Stanford UP, 2025) considers the legal making and unmaking of citizens…
February 27, 2026
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Law
Jewish law, known as halakhah, is a unique legal system that has developed over a period of nearly two millennia, across multiple continents, and in i…
January 12, 2026
Jewish Books in North Africa
Jewish Books in North Africa: Between the Early Modern and Modern Worlds (Indiana University Press, 2025) delves into the multifaceted significance of…
October 21, 2025
Alfred Dreyfus
On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting “Death to Judas!” In Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the…
October 8, 2025
The Chief Rabbi's Funeral
On July 30, 1902, tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of New York’s Lower East Side to bid farewell to the city’s chief rabbi, the eminent…
September 12, 2025
Who Will Rescue Us?
The first account of Jewish children’s flight from Nazi Germany to France—and their subsequent escape to America from the Vichy regime At the eve of …
June 3, 2025
Between Borders
Between the 1860s and the early 1920s, more than two million Jews moved from Eastern Europe to the United States while smaller groups moved to other d…
May 3, 2025
Opening Doors
Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America (St. Martin's Press, 2024) tells the extraordinary story of how Irish a…
February 24, 2025
Mazaltob
Raised in the Judería or Jewish quarter of Tetouan, Morocco, at the turn of the 20th-century, sixteen-year-old Mazaltob finds herself betrothed to Jos…
February 14, 2025
Loving Strangers:
A family memoir that builds a bridge across the terrible divides of our times. It’s a Jewish book, but not Just a Jewish book. It moves Jewish writing…
November 26, 2024
Lukewarm Souls: The Vatican facing the Shoah
The exceptional opening of the archives of the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958) in 2020 did not end the controversies surrounding the silence of th…
July 27, 2024
Carrying a Big Schtick
For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of …
July 16, 2024
American Anarchy
In the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or pri…
March 18, 2024
Right to Reparations
Right to Reparations: The Claims Conference and Holocaust Survivors, 1951–1964 (Lexington, 2021) examines the early years of the Claims Conference, th…
March 9, 2024
Uprooting the Diaspora
In Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the Ethnic Revolution in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946 (Indiana UP, 2023), Sarah Cramsey explor…
July 12, 2023
The Sassoons
Today I talked to Joseph Sassoon about his book The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire (Pantheon, 2022) They were one o…
May 27, 2023
The Shamama Case
In the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce laws…
April 10, 2023
A 'Jewish Marshall Plan'
While the role the United States played in France’s liberation from Nazi Germany is widely celebrated, it is less well known that American Jewish indi…