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Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe with Owen Grey (Bloomsbury, 2026)

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Recent Guests

Martin Kristoffer Hamre

Historian and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow researching fascism and far-right internationalism.

University of Oslo

Episode: Fascists of the World, Unite?: A History of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s with Martin Kristoffer Hamre (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)

Owen Grey

Specialist in Central and Eastern European history focused on Romanian nationalism, statecraft and international relations

Episode: Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe with Owen Grey (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Farid Hafez

Professor and author of Governing Islam in Austria and Germany

Episode: Governing Islam in Austria and Germany, with Farid Hafez

Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal

Independent researcher of Polish-Jewish relations with background in Judaic Studies

Independent researcher

Episode: Poles and Jews: A Call for Myth Reconstruction with Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal (Academic Studies Press, 2024)

Lidia Zessin-Jurek

Historian and memory scholar

Stockton University / German Historical Institute in Warsaw

Episode: Refugees and Citizens in Twentieth-Century East Central Europe: An Unlikely Refuge? with Michal Frankl, Doina Anca Cretu and Lidia Zessin-Jurek (CEU Press, 2026)

Michal Frankl

Editor, Refugees and Citizens in 20th Century East Central Europe

Leibniz Institute for the History of Eastern Europe (and CEU Press volume editor)

Episode: Refugees and Citizens in Twentieth-Century East Central Europe: An Unlikely Refuge? with Michal Frankl, Doina Anca Cretu and Lidia Zessin-Jurek (CEU Press, 2026)

Anca Cretu

Assistant Professor in Modern European History

University of Warwick

Episode: Refugees and Citizens in Twentieth-Century East Central Europe: An Unlikely Refuge? with Michal Frankl, Doina Anca Cretu and Lidia Zessin-Jurek (CEU Press, 2026)

Kalman Weiser

Silber Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies and director of the Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies

York University

Episode: Yiddish Scholarship Comes to America: The YIVO Institute at 100 with Kalman Weiser (Wayne State UP, 2026)

Charlie Walker

Author of On Thin Ice, An Explorer's Memoir of Siberia, Surveillance and Survival

Author, Explorer

Episode: Charlie Walker, "On Thin Ice: An Explorer's Memoir of Siberia, Surveillance and Survival" (Duckworth, 2026)

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Kristin Turner

Host of The New Books Network; manages and presents scholarly interviews across channels.

Jonathan Brent

Host of the program; Executive Director and CEO of the YIVO Institute; frequent host for scholarly discussions.

Julia Rothkoff

Host of the discussion; helps guide scholarly conversations.

Ruben Silverman

Host of the interview in this episode; part of the New Books Network Eastern European Studies channel.

Dragana Prvulovic

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4.5 out of 5 stars from 69 ratings

Great content, terrible audio
Needs a pro mix and EQ
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United Statesa year ago
today’s show
worthwhile content today with john connelly...he is easily understood but the host is barely intelligible...please fix this...hard to spend an hour listening to such poor audio...
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Knihovnik527
United States6 years ago
Great content, but bad quality
Great, interesting content, excellent books. Just wish that the audio quality would be on the level. A lot odd noise, fade outs, tough to hear parts make it not easy to enjoy.
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Caliwinter
United States7 years ago
5 stars content. 1 start production.
This work is too important to have such poor production values. Echoes, fade out, stuttered audio.
Some fantastic books. Articulate authors who are able to discuss their work so that the educated layman may follow it.
The audio should be the easy part. The guests (and listeners) deserve better.
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NemoX1970
United States8 years ago
Deserves 5 stars except for one thing--sound quality
Dear God these people at the New Books Network must have a tin-ear. Far too many of the podcasts are poorly recorded enough to realize that they seem to not care or made their interviewers try to maintain quality recording . I listen to several other podcasts, NONE have the quality control problems the "New Books Network" seems to have on some of theirs.
C'mon guys get your act together, podcasts have come a long way.
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Yiddish Scholarship Comes to America: The YIVO Institute at 100 with Kalman Weiser (Wayne State UP, 2026)

Q: Could you talk a little bit about the move and just the challenges faced by the institute during World War II?

Nazi authorities seized YIVO's collections and forced Jewish scholars to assist their antisemitic research. Supporters rescued materials in Vilna, and after the war YIVO competed with other institutions to reclaim collections, some of which were later discovered in Vilnius and digitally reunited with materials in New York.

Yiddish Scholarship Comes to America: The YIVO Institute at 100 with Kalman Weiser (Wayne State UP, 2026)

Q: Can you talk a little bit about the founding in Vilna in 1925? Why was it founded? What was the initial purpose? And just the environment that it was founded into.

YIVO was established as a global Jewish university, library, and archive serving Yiddish-speaking communities. It grew from the view that Jews needed to study and build modern Jewish culture in their own language.

Fascists of the World, Unite?: A History of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s with Martin Kristoffer Hamre (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)

Q: Why not? What goes wrong when you bring Nationalists together?

Hamre says participating movements wanted to preserve national independence, while the conference exposed disputes over antisemitism, racial hierarchies and Italy's leadership. Germany's absence and rivalry with Italy further limited the effort, though the gathering helped establish later connections.

Fascists of the World, Unite?: A History of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s with Martin Kristoffer Hamre (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)

Q: What parallels do you see with the 1930s story and far-right cooperation around the world today?

Hamre points to shared slogans, authoritarian learning, transnational conferences and organizations, and networking among far-right groups. He also cautions that claims of a united global movement obscure significant disagreements and fragmentation.

Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe with Owen Grey (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Q: Thinking back over the 17 or so years that the Little Entente did exist, what does the history of the Little Entente tell us about the nature of diplomacy in that era and the agency of small states in a radicalizing Europe? Can we learn anything?

Grey argues that alliances based on a single shared threat are fragile. The Little Entente lacked a broad commitment to defend any member against any aggressor, so shifting interests and political pressures undermined it.

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