Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | MoreIn this episode, we’re joined by Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah to talk about Iraqi Jewry and its global diaspora. Listen in as
Continue readingPodcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | MoreDavid S. Koffman joins the podcast to talk about Jews and native peoples in North America. It’s the topic of
Continue readingPodcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | MoreAvinoam Patt joins us to talk about the Warsaw ghetto uprising and its afterlife: How it was understood during the
Continue readingEliyana Adler joins us to talk about Polish Jews who fled to the Soviet Union in 1939, and who subsequently survived the Second World War and the Holocaust in Siberia and Central Asia. Listen in as we discuss her book Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union, and the big picture issues it raises about how we understand the Holocaust, what it means to be a survivor, and the paradoxes of history: those Jews who were deported by the Soviet Union found themselves far away from the Nazi genocide.
Continue readingAlma Heckman joins us to talk about twentieth-century Moroccan Jews, and especially Moroccan Jewish communism and its broader politics, which is the focus of her recent book The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging.
Continue readingMarat Grinberg joins us to speak about how the Holocaust is portrayed and represented in popular culture, particularly in contemporary television. Listen in as we dive into how the Holocaust has played a role in the tv landscape, from “The Plot Against America” (the recent adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel) and “The Man in the High Castle” to “Hunters” and “Judah.”
Continue readingSonia Gollance joins us to talk about her book It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity, an exciting new book which deals with the history of dance and modern Jewish culture.
Continue readingRachel B. Gross talks about nostalgia and lived religion in American Jewish life, which is the focus of her book Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice. Listen in as we talk about a variety of ways in which American Jews connect to their past through nostalgia—through historical museums like the Eldridge Street Synagogue in New York’s Lower East Side, through genealogy, through children’s books and dolls, and through delis and other foodways. As Rachel explains, nostalgia actually offers a kind of lived religious practice, even if it is beyond the synagogue.
Continue readingPodcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | MoreAdam Teller joins us to speak about the seventeenth-century Jewish refugee crisis following the 1648 Khmenlytsky pogroms—how it helps us
Continue readingPodcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | MoreIn our latest episode, Ian Lustick joins us to talk about the idea of a two-state solution to the Israeli/Palestinian
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