Jewish History Matters Podcast

Why Jewish History Matters: Introducing the Jewish History Matters podcast, dedicated to exploring how the newest research and enduring issues of Jewish studies have something to offer to our understanding of the world at large jewishhistory.fm/why-jewish-his…

New episode! Liora R. Halperin talks about her book THE OLDEST GUARD and the issues it raises on the history of Zionist settlement in Israel/Palestine: jewishhistory.fm/the-first-aliy…

Jacob Rader Marcus was intensely proud about the growth of Hebrew Union College (@HUCJIR) into what he called an "an academic empire of four colleges that stretch westward from the hills of Judea to the Pacific Ocean." But Cincinnati was central to this idea. 1/5

🚨 New episode! 🚨 Deb Donig (@debsta4) joins us to talk about the intersection between contemporary technology, culture, and the lessons of history. Listen in as we dive into ethical technology, the Holocaust, and what it means to learn from the past. jewishhistory.fm/ethical-techno…

Listen to our latest—a conversation with Jeffrey @Veidlinger and Amelia Glaser (@aglaser) about the current war in Ukraine in historical and cultural context: jewishhistory.fm/the-war-in-ukr…

Happening right now: Speaking with Jenny Caplan, Vicki Aarons & Jodi Eichler Levine about Maus. Full episode should be up this weekend

New episode! Saul Noam Zaritt (@saulnoamz) speaks about his book JEWISH AMERICAN WRITING AND WORLD LITERATURE: link.chtbl.com/saulnoamz

Happening right now: speaking with Saul Zaritt (@saulnoamz) about JEWISH AMERICAN WRITING AND WORLD LITERATURE: MAYBE TO MILLIONS, MAYBE TO NOBODY -- Episode coming soon!

New episode! Gil Hochberg speaks about her book BECOMING PALESTINE: TOWARD AN ARCHIVE OF THE FUTURE (@DukePress), about how we can develop a sophisticated approach to thinking about Palestine and Israel through the concept of “the Archive.” Listen: listen.jewishhistory.fm/hochberg

Just got the final cut from my editor of the latest @JewishHistoryFM podcast, with Gil Hochberg on BECOMING PALESTINE: TOWARD AN ARCHIVAL IMAGINATION OF THE FUTURE (@DukePress), which will be dropping tomorrow... this is gonna be good. I can't wait to share it

Eventually we may have Dr. Lustig on the podcast too (mostly a question of scheduling), in the meantime check out this interview on NBN

Today @ 3pm CST, I'll be discussing my book A TIME TO GATHER at UT's Institute for Historical Studies (@UTIHS1). We're circulating the introduction; here's a taste—there's still time to read the rest and join us to talk about what it all means: liberalarts.utexas.edu/historicalstud…

2022 is here @NewBooksNetwork. This is my next round of podcast features. Doing fewer of these over the coming months. Let no one say my reading interests aren't eclectic. As always, I'm trying hard to profile historians and experts who really know what they're talking about.

🚨 New episode! 🚨 @SamuelSpinner joins the podcast to talk about Jewish primitivism and its politics, and what it all means when we think about twentieth century Jewish life: listen.jewishhistory.fm/jewishprimitiv…

New episode! Michael A. Meyer joins us to about his new book RABBI LEO BAECK: LIVING A RELIGIOUS IMPERATIVE IN TROUBLED TIMES, as we look at Rabbi Leo Baeck and his legacy as a window into the biggest issues in twentieth-century German Jewish history. listen.jewishhistory.fm/rabbileobaeck

New episode! Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah (@sashargs) joins us to talk about Iraqi Jewry and its global diaspora: link.chtbl.com/goldsteinsabbah

If you're subscribed via your favorite podcast app, the episode will automatically download when it's out-- listen.jewishhistory.fm

We are very, very excited to share our upcoming episode with @david_koffman, which will be out tomorrow morning, on The Jews' Indian and Global Settler Colonialism

Eliyana Adler (@AdlerEliyana) joins us to talk about SURVIVAL ON THE MARGINS: POLISH JEWISH REFUGEES IN THE WARTIME SOVIET UNION, about Polish Jews who fled to the USSR in 1939 & subsequently survived World War II & the Holocaust in Siberia & Central Asia listen.jewishhistory.fm/adler

🎧And you can listen to the whole episode here: listen.jewishhistory.fm/morocco

Check out this short clip from our recent episode with Alma Rachel Heckman, about how we can think about Jewish political activity and agency in the context of the Middle East and North Africa: