New Books in Jewish Studies
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The Jew Who Would Be King: A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa with Adam Rovner (U California Press, 2025)
Oct 3, 20261h 0m
Who Gets to Write History? Wikibiases.org by Shlomit Aharoni Lir
Oct 2, 202637 min
Credit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and the Shaping of American Finance, 1873–1930 with Rebecca Kobrin (Harvard UP, 2026)
Oct 2, 202659 min
The Last of the Ellis Island Jews: A Brooklyn Memoir with Joel Dinerstein (SUNY Press, 2026)
Sep 29, 202639 min
Antisemitism, an American Tradition with Pamela S. Nadell (Norton, 2025)
Sep 25, 202651 min
Matthew Montgomery, "An Intercessor Like Moses: A Key Component of the Psalter's Message" (European Hebrew Journal, 2026)
Sep 22, 202636 min
Giuseppe Motta, "Jewish Refugees and the International Community Between the Two World Wars: Beyond the State" (Routledge, 2026)
Sep 16, 202632 min
Anthony Julius, "Abraham: The First Jew" (Yale UP, 2025)
Sep 15, 202628 min
Joseph G. Rosenstein, "Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers): The Big Picture" (Academic Studies Press, 2026)
Sep 12, 202651 min
Joseph G. Rosenstein, "Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers): The Big Picture" (Academic Studies Press, 2026)
Sep 12, 202648 min
Daniela Gerson, "The Wanderers: A Story of Exile, Survival, and Unexpected Love in the Shadow of World War II" (Grand Central Publishing, 2026)
Sep 8, 20261h 6m
An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland
Sep 6, 20261h 0m
Agnes Mueller, "Holocaust Migration in German Jewish Literatures" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Sep 5, 202653 min
"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in Court: The Bern Trial (1933-1935) and the "Antisemitic International"
Sep 2, 20261h 7m
Educating for an Uncertain Future in Interwar Poland
Aug 29, 202656 min
Encore - Shai Lavi, "Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political and Empirical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Aug 28, 202654 min
Musical Pripetshik: Lyrics and Melodies of Traditional Yiddish Folksongs
Aug 25, 202658 min
Sabrina Inowlocki, "Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Aug 24, 20261h 29m
Jacqueline Vayntrub, "Body Language: Voice, Embodiment, and Textuality in the Hebrew Bible" (Yale UP, 2026)
Aug 23, 202653 min
Denialism: Polish Style
Aug 22, 20261h 8m
Emile Chabal, "The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian" (Harvard UP, 2026)
Aug 21, 20261h 33m
A Very Jewish Christmas: When Jesus Spoke Yiddish
Aug 18, 20261h 10m
Shimon Redlich, "Bridge Builder: My Life Since the Holocaust" (Academic Studies Press, 2026)
Aug 16, 202644 min
Are We In The Midst Of A Yiddish Renaissance?
Aug 15, 20261h 6m
James Loeffler, "Exceptional Hatred: Antisemitism and the Fight over Free Speech in Modern America" (Metropolitan Books, 2026)
Aug 15, 20261h 4m
Zvi Yehuda and Marian Scheuer Sofaer, "The Expulsion of Jews from Iraq, 20th Century: The Agonies of Redemption" (Brill, 2024)
Aug 15, 202653 min
Sarah Ellen Zarrow, "Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891–1941" (Cornell UP, 2025.)
Aug 14, 20261h 4m
Yigal Levin, "The Chronicles of David and Solomon: 1 Chronicles 10–2 Chronicles 9: A New Translation and Commentary " (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Aug 13, 202635 min
In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Yiddish Memories of Small-Town Jewish Life in Ukraine
Aug 12, 202659 min
Eckart Otto, "Max Weber's Studies of Ancient Judaism: The Historical Foundation for a Theory of the Modern Age" (Mohr Siebeck, 2002)
Aug 11, 202636 min
Eckart Otto, "Deuteronomy in the Pentateuch and the Hexateuch: Studies of the Literary History of the Pentateuch and the Hexateuch within the Framework of Deuteronomy" (Mohr Siebeck, 2000)
Aug 10, 202640 min
Russia’s Jews in World War I
Aug 8, 2026
Deborah Barer, "Going Off Script: Improvisational Judgment in the Talmud" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Aug 8, 202651 min
Donniel Hartman, "Who Are the Jews—And Who Can We Become?" (Jewish Publication Society, 2023)
Aug 7, 202646 min
Gianluca Fantoni, "Soldiers, Angels, and Avengers: A History of the Jewish Brigade" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026)
Aug 7, 20261h 5m
Laura Jockusch on Jewish Revenge after the Holocaust (JP)
Aug 6, 202650 min
Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust
Aug 6, 20261h 9m
Yiddish Language During the Holocaust
Aug 5, 20261h 2m
Posen Library: Jewish Studies Teaching Modules
Aug 1, 202656 min
The YIVO Library in New York: Personal Reflections on Its History and Collections
Jul 31, 2026
Kyle H. Keimer and George A. Pierce eds., "The Ancient Israelite World" (Routledge, 2024)
Jul 31, 202627 min
George Savran, "Jacob: Conflicted Twin, Aggrieved Patriarch" (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2025)
Jul 30, 20261h 8m
Two Revolutionary Jews: Leon Trotsky and Chaim Zhitlowsky
Jul 29, 2026
Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff, "The Woman Question in Jewish Studies" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jul 29, 202646 min
Jenny R. Labendz, "Beyond Hope: Rabbinic Eschatology of Late Antiquity in Comparative Perspective" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jul 28, 202655 min
New Trends in YIVO Scholarship
Jul 27, 2026
Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe
Jul 25, 2026
David Denby, "Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer" (Henry Holt, 2025)
Jul 22, 202651 min
Elad Lapidot, "State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel" (Indiana UP, 2025)
Jul 21, 20261h 11m
Ambrogio Caiani, "Flirting with Evil: The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation" (Apollo, 2026)
Jul 18, 20261h 4m