Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | MoreFor this episode, tune in to an important and timely panel discussion about the future of democracy in a global
Continue readingLaura Arnold Leibman joins us to talk about early American Jewish history and material culture, and the big lessons that we learn from looking at a handful of small objects which she studies in her recent book The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects. Listen in for our conversation about how material objects and material culture illuminate our understanding of American Jewish history, and why it matters.
Continue readingPodcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | MoreWhy do historical terms matter, like Ghetto, concentration camp, and fascism? Daniel B. Schwartz joins us to discuss his book
Continue readingIn this episode, Marc Dollinger joins us for an important conversation about the history of Black-Jewish relations in the 1960s, and its ramifications and relevance for the continued struggle for civil rights and racial justice today.
Continue readingPodcast: 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 readingJoshua Teplitsky joins us to discuss his book Prince of the Press and the broader issue of the history of Jewish books and book collecting. Prince of the Press is a fantastic book, and it opens up a great set of issues about the meaning of books and libraries in Jewish culture, the process of accumulating and transmitting Jewish learning over the generations, as well as how we understand Jewish life in early modern Europe in the widest terms.
Continue readingZev Eleff joins the podcast to discuss his recent book Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life and the broader topic of the history of modern Orthodox Judaism and why it matters—both in terms of the developments in American Jewish life, and also American religion at large.
Continue readingMir Yarfitz joins the podcast to discuss his book Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina, and the big-picture issues surrounding the history of migration, sex work and prostitution, and the morality tale of “white slavery.”
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
Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | MoreIn this episode, we’re joined by David Sorkin to talk about the history of Jewish emancipation, the process of Jews
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