1392 Episodes

  1. Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon, 2022)

    Published: 12/07/2023

  2. Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, "The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible" (Princeton UP, 2023)

    Published: 08/07/2023

  3. Daniel Boyarin, "The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)

    Published: 07/07/2023

  4. Jennifer Caplan, "Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials" (Wayne State UP, 2023)

    Published: 04/07/2023

  5. Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, eds., "A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar" (U California Press, 2023)

    Published: 04/07/2023

  6. Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, "Stereotyping Religion II: Critiquing Clichés" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

    Published: 01/07/2023

  7. Anna Müller, "An Ordinary Life?: The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918-1996" (Ohio UP, 2023)

    Published: 30/06/2023

  8. Edward Kissi, "Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples" (Routledge, 2021)

    Published: 29/06/2023

  9. David Wenham, "Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

    Published: 27/06/2023

  10. Yaakov Beasley, "Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: Lights in the Valley" (Maggid, 2020)

    Published: 26/06/2023

  11. Illuminations Episode 9: Rituals for a Dying World

    Published: 22/06/2023

  12. W. Gil Shin, "The 'Exodus' in Jerusalem (Luke 9:31): A Lukan Form of Israel's Restoration Hope" (Brill, 2022)

    Published: 21/06/2023

  13. Orit Avishai, "Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel" (NYU Press, 2023)

    Published: 18/06/2023

  14. Daniel A. Klein, "Shadal on Numbers: Samuel David Luzzatto's Interpretation of the Book of Bemidbar" (Kodesh Press, 2023)

    Published: 18/06/2023

  15. Pinchas Blitt, "A Promise of Sweet Tea" (Azrieli Foundation, 2021)

    Published: 16/06/2023

  16. Randy Grigsby, "This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light: Henrietta Szold, the Rescue of Children from Hitler's Europe and Her Palestine Experience" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)

    Published: 08/06/2023

  17. Randy Grigsby, "A Train to Palestine: The Tehran Children, Anders' Army and Their Escape from Stalin's Siberia, 1939-1943" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2019)

    Published: 06/06/2023

  18. Eliyana R. Adler and Katerina Capková, "Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

    Published: 04/06/2023

  19. Béla Bodó, "The White Terror: Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919-1921" (Routledge, 2019)

    Published: 30/05/2023

  20. Hilary Frances Aked, "Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity" (Verso, 2023)

    Published: 30/05/2023

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