https://media.blubrry.com/jewishhistorymatters/p/www.jewishhistory.fm/episodes/s3/50.mp3Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | MoreListen in for an important conversation with Michael Rothberg about how we understand violence—both in history and in our own
Continue readingLaura Robson and Arie Dubnov join us to talk about the history of partition—separating territories and peoples to create new states—and why it matters in a global context. In the book which Laura and Arie co-edited, Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separation
Lisa Moses Leff, Ethan Katz, and Maud Mandel discuss “Colonialism and the Jews,” an volume of essays from a 2014 conference on the subject. We talk about the place of Jews in the history of colonialism, the role of empire in the varied Jewish experiences of modernity, how examining these topics helps us to rethink modern Jewish history, and the question of Zionism and colonialism.
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