Jewish History Nerds
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Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer: The Jewish Story Behind Hollywood’s First Talkie
Aug 20, 202657 min
The Girl Rabbi of the Golden West: Ray Frank Revisted
Aug 13, 202648 min
How a Plate of Shrimp Changed American Judaism
Aug 6, 202654 min
Revisiting Emma Goldman: Anarchism, Feminism...and Judaism?
Jul 30, 202640 min
How Emma Lazarus Gave the Statue of Liberty Its Voice
Jul 23, 202635 min
Emma Lazarus Was Born Rich. Why Did She Speak for the Poor?
Jul 16, 202641 min
The Jews of 1789: Citizens
Jul 9, 202644 min
The Jews of 1776: The American Revolution
Jul 7, 202639 min
Why The First Jews in Colonial America Nearly Vanished
Jul 2, 202649 min
Jewish Pirates and the Caribbean
Jun 25, 202643 min
The First Jews in the Americas: From Recife, Brazil to Jewish New York
Jun 18, 202648 min
Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman [Special Crossover]
Jun 16, 20261h 2m
The Many Lives of Anne Frank
Jun 11, 20261h 4m
King David: Legend, Hero, Human
Jun 9, 202652 min
New Episodes, Coming Next Week
Jun 4, 20261 min
Voices of the Warsaw Ghetto: A Yom HaShoah Re-Release
Apr 14, 202637 min
The Haggadah: The Book of the People of the Book
Mar 31, 202639 min
Albert Einstein: Was He a Zionist? (Part 2)
Mar 26, 202649 min
Albert Einstein: Rebel. Reject. Genius. (Part 1)
Mar 19, 202646 min
The Girl Rabbi of the Golden West: Ray Frank
Mar 12, 202643 min
The Gambling Rabbi of Venice: Leone da Modena
Mar 5, 202644 min
Crusades, Martyrdom & Radical Piety: The Hasidei Ashkenaz
Feb 26, 202644 min
The Rosenbergs: "Atomic Spies" or Scapegoats? The Jewish Community’s Reckoning
Feb 19, 202648 min
Meet the First Jewish Woman to Publish a Book: Rivka Tiktiner
Feb 12, 202640 min
Leon Trotsky: The Jewish Revolutionary in Stalin’s Shadow
Feb 5, 202646 min
Secret Jews: Samuel Schwarz’s Discovery of Portugal’s Crypto-Jews
Jan 29, 202644 min
Janusz Korczak: The Educator who Refused to Abandon Children in the Holocaust
Jan 22, 202645 min
Jewish History Nerds is BACK on January 22nd!
Jan 15, 20262 min
Revisiting Hebrew Hammer: The True Story of Hannukah
Dec 18, 202532 min
Listener Survey is Here
Jun 12, 20250 min
The JNF Blue Box: A Symbol of Hope, Controversy, and Nation-Building
Jun 5, 202553 min
The Judensau: How Pig Imagery Fueled Centuries of Antisemitism
May 29, 202542 min
When Jews Thrived in India: Castes, Coexeistence and the Cochin Copper Plates
May 22, 202548 min
Judea Capta: The Romans Coins that Celebrated the Fall of Judea
May 15, 202531 min
The Story of the Menorah: From Temple to State Seal
May 8, 202540 min
Jerusalem’s Hidden Scrolls: The Earliest Evidence of the Hebrew Bible
May 1, 202535 min
Unearthing Dura Europos: The Synagogue Lost in Time
Apr 24, 202539 min
Buried Secrets: Jewish Magic, Demons, and the Babylonian Incantation Bowls
Apr 17, 202544 min
The First Mention of Israel: A Passover Special on the Merneptah Stele
Apr 10, 202532 min
The Star of David: A Symbol That Means Everything—and Nothing
Apr 4, 202536 min
Season 4, Coming Next Week
Mar 27, 20252 min
The Secret Jewish Kingdom of...Yemen?
Mar 14, 202435 min
Bertha Pappenheim: Life Beyond a Diagnosis
Mar 7, 202436 min
Rav Saadia Gaon: In Our Gaonic Era
Feb 29, 202427 min
The Diary of Glikl: Discovering the Exceptional within the Everyday
Feb 22, 202428 min
Revisionist Zionism: Jabotinsky's Journey From Vladimir to Ze'ev
Feb 15, 202438 min
Mystical Hasidism: Hillel Ba'al Shem's Enchanted Journey
Feb 8, 202434 min
Chronicles of A Talmud Girl Boss
Feb 1, 202434 min
The First Female Rabbi?: Maiden of Ludmir
Jan 25, 202439 min
Innovation or Assimilation? The Moses Mendelssohn Story
Jan 18, 202438 min