TopPodcast.com
Menu
  • Home
  • Top Charts
  • Top Networks
  • Top Apps
  • Top Independents
  • Top Podfluencers
  • Top Picks
    • Top Business Podcasts
    • Top True Crime Podcasts
    • Top Finance Podcasts
    • Top Comedy Podcasts
    • Top Music Podcasts
    • Top Womens Podcasts
    • Top Kids Podcasts
    • Top Sports Podcasts
    • Top News Podcasts
    • Top Tech Podcasts
    • Top Crypto Podcasts
    • Top Entrepreneurial Podcasts
    • Top Fantasy Sports Podcasts
    • Top Political Podcasts
    • Top Science Podcasts
    • Top Self Help Podcasts
    • Top Sports Betting Podcasts
    • Top Stocks Podcasts
  • Podcast News
  • About Us
  • Podcast Advertising
  • Contact
Not in our directory?
Add Show Here
Podcast Equipment
Center

toppodcastlogoOur TOPPODCAST Picks

  • Comedy
  • Crypto
  • Sports
  • News
  • Politics
  • True Crime
  • Business
  • Finance

Follow Us

toppodcastlogoStay Connected

    View Top 200 Chart
    Back to Rankings Page
    Education

    Jewish History Matters

    Explores why Jewish history matters through in-depth discussions of new research, current topics, and enduring debates about Jewish history and culture.

    Advertise
    • Apple Podcasts
    • Google Play
    • Spotify
    Latest Episodes:
    54: The Future of Democracy in Global Context, with Dahlia Scheindlin, Joshua Shanes, and Jeremi Suri Oct 11, 2020
    Show notes

    Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list

    For this episode, tune in to an important and timely panel discussion about the future of democracy in a global context. We’ll be looking at the erosion of democratic norms and the attacks on democratic institutions within Israel and the US, placing it in global context, and thinking about why history matters when we consider important contemporary affairs.

    Our hope is that this conversation, and the panel of three prominent scholars, can shed some light on these issues of critical importance. We hope you find this episode to be productive and fruitful as we think through some of the most important issues of our time through historical and global context. As you’ll find, there are perhaps more questions than we can consider in an hour, so we trust that this will just be a starting point for a continuing conversation about the history of democracy and its prognosis for the future in a global perspective.

    Dahlia Scheindlin, a public opinion expert and strategic consultant specializes in conducting research and policy analysis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, regional foreign policy, democracy, and more. She has been an adjunct lecturer at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University, the Jezreel Valley College, and Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus. She is a co-founder and columnist at +972 Magazine, and is currently a fellow at The Century Foundation, a policy fellow at Mitvim – the Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies, and she co-hosts The Tel Aviv Review podcast.

    Joshua Shanes is an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston,and his research focuses on Central and East European Jewry in the 19th and 20th centuries, specifically turn-of-the-century Galicia and the rise of Zionism as a counter-movement to the traditional Jewish establishment. And he’s published widely on modern Jewish politics, culture, and religion, as well as issues surrounding democracy and fascism, in academic and popular venues including the Washington Post, Slate, Haaretz and elsewhere.

    Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas an Austin, and is a Professor in the Department of History there as well as the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs. Jeremi’s primary research interests include the formation and spread of nation-states, the emergence of modern international relations, the connections between foreign policy and domestic politics, and the rise of knowledge institutions as global actors. He is also the host of the podcast This is Democracy.

    53: Small Objects, Big Lessons: The Art of the Jewish Family with Laura Arnold Leibman Sep 29, 2020
    Show notes

    Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list

    Laura Arnold Leibman joins us to talk about early American Jewish history and material culture, and the big lessons that we learn from looking at a handful of small objects which she studies in her recent book The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects. Listen in for our conversation about how material objects and material culture illuminate our understanding of American Jewish history, and why it matters.

    • Purchase The Art of the Jewish Family (and use the code AJFJHM15 for a 15% discount)

    The Art of the Jewish Family is an exciting book which uses micro history and material culture—looking at individual lives and histories, through material objects—to tell a big story about the lives of Jewish women in New York and the wider Atlantic world from 1750 to 1850. These objects include a letter written in 1761 to request financial aid from New York’s Congregation Shearith Israel; silver cups; ivory miniatures; commonplace books; and family portraits. Altogether they tell us an important set of stories about people who we don’t always pay attention to in history.

    Laura Arnold Leibman is Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. Her general field of interest is religion and American culture prior to the American Civil War. Her 2012 book Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life was awarded a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award and a National Jewish Book Award, and she recently published The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects, which we speak about in the podcast.

    52: Ghetto, Concentration Camp, Fascism: Why Words Matter with Daniel B. Schwartz Sep 13, 2020
    Show notes

    Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list

    Why do historical terms matter, like Ghetto, concentration camp, and fascism? Daniel B. Schwartz joins us to discuss his book Ghetto: The History of a Word, and about why historical terms and words matter—why it’s important to understand their origins and how they’ve changed, and also how they can be applied to understanding our own world.

    Thanks to Harvard University Press, we have a few copies of the book to offer to listeners! Enter our raffle for a free copy of Ghetto: The History of a Word.

    Daniel B. Schwartz is Professor of History at George Washington University, and he’s the chair of the Department of History there. In addition to his recent book Ghetto, he is also the author of The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image, which was cowinner of the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize for the best first book in Jewish Studies and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in History.

    Ghetto: The History of a Word is an important, fascinating book that traces the history of the term “Ghetto” from sixteenth-century Italy to the twenty-first century. It considers the origins of the term, and how it has been put to use within both Jewish and non-Jewish contexts since then.

    The term “ghetto” has become quite a multifaceted term, put to use as a metaphor to understand Jewish modernity in contrast with medieval Jewish life, in the context of the Holocaust, as well as in the United States. In this respect it brings us into a much wider set of issues about how we use historical terms—can we call contemporary political parties, movements, or leaders “fascists”? What about the term “Concentration Camp”? Is it exclusively about the Holocaust or can we apply it to other things, like contemporary detention centers?

    As Dan argues in the book, words matter, and how we understand the life and afterlife of historical terms impacts how and why we can – or in some cases cannot – use them in a variety of contexts. It really gets at the heart of why history matters: Both that we should understand the history of ideas, concepts, and terms which have entered into the broad public lexicon, and also how we can understand the ways in which history and historical analogy can be used to understand broader contemporary issues, or when it should not.

    51: Black Power and Jewish Politics with Marc Dollinger Aug 30, 2020
    Show notes

    Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list

    Welcome back to Jewish History Matters. In this episode, Marc Dollinger joins us for an important conversation about the history of Black-Jewish relations in the 1960s, and its ramifications and relevance for the continued struggle for civil rights and racial justice today.

    Marc Dollinger holds the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University. He’s the author of Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America, and Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, which we discuss in this episode.

    • Purchase Black Power, Jewish Politics on Amazon

    Black Power, Jewish Politics reframes the place of Jews in the civil rights movement and the rise of black power in the 1960s. As Marc argues, American Jews tend to have a filiopietistic and self-congratulatory historical memory of these events emphasizing Jews’ place in a cold war liberal consensus, and as allies in the fight for civil rights, prior to a breakdown of this black-Jewish alliance with the rise of the Black Power movement. Marc doesn’t deny that this alliance existed, but he offers a new way of thinking about it and its legacy: He argues that Jewish leaders recognized the limits of white allyship early on, and later supported Black power—both in itself and also as an example of how to pursue Jewish empowerment. As Marc argues, the emergence of Jewish ethnic identity in the 1970s — Jewish day schools, the Jewish catalogue, Jewish studies courses, just to name a few — actually paralleled the broader context of American life in which various ethnic groups drew from the example of Black power to chart their own course within the framework of identity politics.

    However, the struggle for civil rights and racial justice is not concluded in this country, so this book is about the past but it’s not entirely history. As a result it offers one starting point for rethinking the relationship between Jews and civil rights both historically speaking and today, the question of whether Jews are white, or are perceived as white, and the ramifications of all this within the context of the Black Lives Matter movement. As we’ll get into today, this book and its argument offers a pathway towards rethinking this history, our place within it, and what it might mean to be an ally in the fight for social and racial justice today.

    50: We Are All Implicated in Violence and Oppression, Both Historical and Present-Day: A Conversation with Michael Rothberg Jun 07, 2020
    Show notes

    Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list

    Listen in for an important conversation with Michael Rothberg about how we understand violence—both in history and in our own present day—and our place within it. This is obviously an important set of timely issues, both intellectually and politically, which relate closely to Michael’s recent book The Implicated Subject, which is a major focus of our conversation. But the book is just a starting point for the bigger question of how we can understand ourselves as implicated in the legacy of historical violence, as well as present-day oppression.

    Michael Rothberg is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA, and he holds the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies there. The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators is his most recent book, and he’s also the author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (2009), and Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000).

    • Purchase The Implicated Subject on Amazon
    • Read an excerpt from the introduction to The Implicated Subject
    • Read Michael’s essay about Achille Mbembe, “Specters of Comparison,” which we also discuss

    The Implicated Subject is a really important book because it raises the fundamental challenge that no one is really innocent when it comes to historical injustices – even those of us who were born long after the events took place. As he writes, when we think about injustice there are not just perpetrators and victims, but many people are also implicated—as people who enable systemic violence and oppression, or benefit in some fashion even without thinking about it, or who bear responsibility for the legacies of historical injustice. It’s an important term to add to our vocabulary, to think about the history of the implicated subject – of those people who have agency over their lives, as subjects, and are implicated in the history of violence and injustice, as well as systems of oppression in our own day, and its a call for reflection and for action to fight oppression, injustice, and inequality when we think about our own place within it. I’m so glad to be able to discuss this with Michael, because I think that he offers an important conceptual framework and a challenge to all of us as we think about history, about memory, and about our own lives.

    49: Why Jewish Books and Libraries Matter with Joshua Teplitsky May 24, 2020
    Show notes

    Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list

    Joshua Teplitsky joins us to discuss his book Prince of the Press and the broader issue of the history of Jewish books and book collecting. Prince of the Press is a fantastic book, and it opens up a great set of issues about the meaning of books and libraries in Jewish culture, the process of accumulating and transmitting Jewish learning over the generations, as well as how we understand Jewish life in early modern Europe in the widest terms.

    • Purchase Prince of the Press from Yale University Press, and use the code YEPRP for a 25% discount
    • Begin reading the introduction to Prince of the Press

    Joshua Teplitsky is assistant professor of history at Stony Brook University. Prince of the Press, which tells the story of the Prague rabbi David Oppenheim and his library, is his first book, and it was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Josh specializes in the history of the Jews in Europe in the early modern period and in the study of books and media, and is one of the leaders of the Footprints project which seeks to document the history of the movement of early printed Jewish books and manuscripts.

    Prince of the Press is such a phenomenal book on many levels. It tells the story of David Oppenheim and his collection of books, so it’s a microhistory, telling history on a very personal scale. But the story of Oppenheim and his library, like all great microhistories, has something bigger to teach us about the nature of Jewish culture within early modern Europe, and about European book culture at large. What does it mean to collect books? How do we transmit knowledge, from person to person or from generation to generation, in terms of both information as well as physical terms? This book Prince of the Press helps us to think about all of those things and more.

    48: Modern Orthodox Judaism with Zev Eleff May 10, 2020
    Show notes

    Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list

    Zev Eleff joins the podcast to discuss his recent book Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life and the broader topic of the history of modern Orthodox Judaism and why it matters—both in terms of the developments in American Jewish life, and also American religion at large.

    Zev Eleff is the Chief Academic Officer of Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, IL, and Associate Professor of Jewish History at Touro College. He is the author or editor of nine books, most recently Authentically Orthodox as well as Modern Orthodox Judaism: A Documentary History. Also over the past couple of months, he’s also has been teaching his course on the history of orthodox Judaism online with a series of fantastic panel discussions on the topic with leading scholars, and he’s been posting the videos on YouTube. You can find a link in the show notes.

    • Purchase Authentically Orthodox from Wayne State University Press; use promo code POD1 for 30% off.
    • Check out Zev Eleff’s video lectures and panel discussions on the history of Orthodox Judaism, his Spring 2020 course which (like so many other scholars’ courses) were forced online

    A transcript of this episode will be available shortly.

    47: Jews and Sex Work in Argentina with Mir Yarfitz and Geraldine Gudefin Apr 26, 2020
    Show notes

    Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list

    Mir Yarfitz joins the podcast to discuss his book Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina, and the big-picture issues surrounding the history of migration, sex work and prostitution, and the morality tale of “white slavery.” As he describes in the book, and dives into in this wide-ranging conversation, looking closely at this history both offers a new light on the history of Jews in Argentina and also indicates important ways in which we can rethink the phenomenon of sex work as well as the stakes of debates about migration and immigration. Notably, he argues that we should recognize the agency of the historical actors just as much as contemporary figures in these spheres, and also that the history of the terms of the discourse surrounding sex work is closely connected to the criminalization and racialization of immigrants, both within the twentieth-century Argentine context as well as in twenty-first century America.

    • Purchase Impure Migration at Amazon

    Mir Yarfitz is an Associate Professor at Wake Forest University’s Department of History. Impure Migration is his first book.

    This episode is guest hosted by Geraldine Gudefin, a scholar of modern Jewish studies currently teaching at American University. She received her Ph.D. in History from Brandeis University in 2018, and her research is focused on migration, gender, and the intersection of law and religion in French and American Jewish history.

    An edited transcript of the conversation will be available shortly.

    46: Putting Partition in Global Context with Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov Apr 12, 2020
    Show notes

    Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list

    Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov join us to talk about the history of partition—separating territories and peoples to create new states—and why it matters in a global context. In the book which Laura and Arie co-edited, Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separation, they and the many authors who contributed to the project have brought together three important cases of partition in the twentieth century: Ireland in the 1920s, Israel and Palestine in 1937 and 1947, and India and Pakistan in 1948. It’s a phenomenal project that highlights the intersection of geopolitical developments and allows us to tie together what are usually seen as national histories in a global sense.

    • Read the introduction to Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separation
    • Purchase Partitions on Amazon
    • Watch a video of Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov speaking about their book at the University of Texas at Austin

    Laura Robson is a professor of history at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Her most recent book, States of Separation: Transfer, Partition, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, which appeared in 2017, explores the history of forced migration, population exchanges, and refugee resettlement in Iraq, Syria, and Palestine during the interwar period.

    Arie Dubnov holds the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at George Washington University. Arie’s a historian of twentieth-century Jewish and Israeli history, with emphasis on the history of political thought, the study of nationalism, and decolonization. Among his publications are an intellectual biography Isaiah Berlin: The Journey of a Jewish Liberal (2012) and the edited volume Zionism—A View from the Outside (2010 [in Hebrew]), which seeks to put Zionist history in a larger comparative trajectory.

    45: Jewish Emancipation with David Sorkin Mar 29, 2020
    Show notes

    Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list

    In this episode, we’re joined by David Sorkin to talk about the history of Jewish emancipation, the process of Jews gaining (and sometimes losing) civic and civil rights in modern times. Listen in for a fascinating conversation about David’s recent book Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries.

    • Purchase Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries at Amazon

    David Sorkin is the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale’s Department of History. He’s a leading scholar in modern jewish history and particularly the social, intellectual, and political transformations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – which he looks at this this book through the lens of Emancipation.

    Jewish Emancipation synthesizes the legal and historical pathways of emancipation against a broad geographical and chronological backdrop in western and central Europe which much of the traditional discussion of emancipation has emphasized, both also including the Ottoman Empire and the U.S., where many have passed over the history of emancipation on the basis of assumptions that emancipation is a European story, or that Jews never needed emancipating in the US. The book also extends our timeline. Instead of focusing on the French Revolution and its aftermath as a one-time event, the book traces the history of emancipation as a process from the sixteenth century to the present, suggesting that this is a story which still isn’t over yet — especially when we consider Israel and the question of rights and citizenship there.

    We’re really excited to share our conversation. David’s book presents a starting point for a wide-ranging discussion about how we understand Jewish emancipation. As David suggests, we talk about emancipation and know that this is an important juncture in modern Jewish history, but it paradoxically also has been neglected — so when we look at this history more closely, we can think about why emancipation matters not only for how we understand Jewish history, but as a history that illuminates and illustrates the development of modernity on a much larger scale.

    An edited transcript of the episode will be available shortly.

    Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 9 Next

    Related Podcasts

    Making Sense with Sam Harris

    1

    Making Sense with Sam Harris Education
    Grammar Girl

    2

    Grammar Girl Education
    Good Life Project

    3

    Good Life Project Education
    Explain It to Me

    4

    Explain It to Me Education
    Team Never Quit

    5

    Team Never Quit Comedy
    Optimal Living Daily – Personal Development and Self-Improvement

    6

    Optimal Living Daily – Personal Development and Self-Improvement Alternative Health
    footer-logo

    Contact Us

    Toll Free: 844-670-7747

    Links

    • Home
    • Top Charts
    • Networks
    • Apps
    • Independents Podcasts
    • Podcast Advertising
    • Podcast News
    • Contact Us
    • About Us
    • Analytics & Insights

    Stay Connected

      Privacy, Terms of Use & Our Code of Ethics Protecting Content Creators Copyrights