New Books in Jewish Studies
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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
Zvi Yehuda and Marian Scheuer Sofaer, "The Expulsion of Jews from Iraq, 20th Century: The Agonies of Redemption" (Brill, 2024)
Aug 15, 202653 min
James Loeffler, "Exceptional Hatred: Antisemitism and the Fight over Free Speech in Modern America" (Metropolitan Books, 2026)
Aug 15, 20261h 4m
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
Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust
Aug 6, 20261h 9m
Laura Jockusch on Jewish Revenge after the Holocaust (JP)
Aug 6, 202650 min
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
Chad S. A. Gibbs "Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance" (U Wisconsin Press, 2026)
Jul 16, 20261h 10m
Sarah Kaminsky, "The Forger of Paris" (Doppelhouse Press, 2025)
Jul 15, 202655 min
Nora L. Rubel, "Recipes for the Melting Pot: The Lives of the Settlement Cook Book" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Jul 15, 202644 min
Heidegger in Ruins
Jul 13, 2026
Jeffrey A. Marx, "Jewish Firebugs: Arson and Antisemitism from the Civil War to World War I" (NYU Press, 2026)
Jul 13, 202638 min
Yiddish Tangos and Klezmer Mambos
Jul 10, 2026
Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages
Jul 8, 202658 min
Lila Corwin Berman, "Who Is American? Belonging and the Question of Jewish Citizenship" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 6, 20261h 3m
Molly Crabapple, "Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund" (Random House, 2026)
Jul 5, 202659 min
Jonathan L. Friedmann, "Chai Noon: Jews and the Cinematic Wild West" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
Jul 4, 20261h 11m
Max Weinreich and the Meaning of Yiddish
Jul 3, 2026
Good Goy, Bad Goy: The Portrayal of Gentiles in Sketches from the London Yiddish Press
Jul 1, 2026
The 'Tsenerene': The Most Popular Yiddish Book in History
Jun 29, 2026
The Jewish Press Today
Jun 25, 2026
Antizionism as a Distinct Anti-Jewish Bigotry with Adam Louis-Klein
Jun 24, 202631 min
A Very Jewish Christmas: Jesus and Shabbtai Zvi, from Heretic to Hero
Jun 22, 20261h 4m
Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age
Jun 20, 2026
European Jews in the 21st Century
Jun 18, 2026
Samantha Ellis, "Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture" (Pegasus Books, 2026)
Jun 17, 202649 min