New Books in Jewish Studies

Marshall Poe

Holocaust

Jewish Identity

Antisemitism

Judaism

Jewish History

Zionism

World War II

YIVO Institute For Jewish Research

Israel

Anti-Semitism

Rabbinic Literature

Maimonides

Yiddish

Dreyfus Affair

Ethics

Feminism

Nazi Germany

Alfred Dreyfus

Yiddish New York

Talmud

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Author, Professor (Catholic Church history)

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Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Zucker-Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies

College of Charleston

Episode: Chad S. A. Gibbs "Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance" (U Wisconsin Press, 2026)

Nora Rubel

Professor of Religion and Classics, University of Rochester; author of Recipes for the Melting Pot

University of Rochester

Episode: Nora L. Rubel, "Recipes for the Melting Pot: The Lives of the Settlement Cook Book" (Columbia UP, 2026)

Sarah Kaminsky

Author of Adolfo Kaminsky, A Forger's Life; daughter of Adolfo Kaminsky

Author; Filmmaker

Episode: Sarah Kaminsky, "The Forger of Paris" (Doppelhouse Press, 2025)

Jeffrey A. Marx

Author of Jewish Firebugs, Arson and Antisemitism from the Civil War to World War I

NYU Press

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Richard Wolin

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Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies

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Ron Robboy

Musician and independent scholar

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Cultural historian, curator, and MacArthur Fellow

University of Southern California

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Alex Weiser

Director of Public Programs at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; hosts discussions and lectures.

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How could you possibly conduct this interview without asking about - or the author raising- the NYTimes best selling book by Judy Batalion’s, Light of Days, which won countless awards including the National Jewish Book Award and which virtually covers the same material? So you just pretend it doesn’t exist?That is disingenuous and a real disservice to your readers.
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Excellent programming
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Wonderful subjects
I love the discussants and books chosen for this podcast and rarely skip an episode. They have taught me a lot. My only gripe is the non-engaged, non-sequitur, book report-like style of questioning of the interviewer. The questions are good but they break up the flow of the conversation, keeping it from being the deep discussion that could otherwise result from more carefully woven lines of questioning.
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Molly Crabapple, "Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund" (Random House, 2026)

Q: How did the Bund differ from Zionism in its approach to land and nationhood?

Crucially, the Bund advocated here-ness—the idea that Jews could claim a homeland where they lived as equals among others rather than seeking settlement through a separate state; in contrast, Zionism pursued a political program of creating a Jewish-majority state, which the guest argues is inherently colonial in its logic.

Molly Crabapple, "Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund" (Random House, 2026)

Q: What is the Jewish Bund and what is its story?

The Bund was a secular socialist, anti-Zionist Jewish movement founded in 1897 in Tsarist Russia that built a broad counterculture—unions, schools, women's and youth movements, and even a sanatorium—while fighting pogroms and later participating in resistance against fascism. Its history spans the Pale of Settlement through interwar Poland, where it faced state repression and competed with Zionism.

Chad S. A. Gibbs "Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance" (U Wisconsin Press, 2026)

Q: Could you talk about Treblinka's origins and how it fit into the larger Holocaust project, including the pre-Wannsee context and Operation Reinhardt?

Gibbs explains Treblinka as part of Operation Reinhardt, created after the Wannsee Conference, situates Belzec and Sobibor with Treblinka, and outlines how these camps were designed to simplify and conceal mass murder while exploiting local economies and creating new mobilities for victims and belongings.

Chad S. A. Gibbs "Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance" (U Wisconsin Press, 2026)

Q: Tell us a bit about yourself, your path to becoming a historian, and how these research interests came together.

Gibbs describes growing up with World War II and Holocaust books, serving in the US Army, and how an entry program and mentorship steered him toward Treblinka research, culminating in the focus on gender, space, and social networks that frame Survival at Treblinka.

Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages

Q: How does translating Freud into Hebrew and Yiddish shape our understanding of psychoanalysis in Jewish contexts?

Translation acts as a psychoanalytic act itself, reframing Freud's ideas through Jewish linguistic and cultural frames, which can reveal or even create new meanings and connections in Jewish life.

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This channel features scholars discussing recently published research across Jewish studies, history, memory, archives, and related humanities topics. Episodes highlight books and projects on postwar displacement, Holocaust memory, immigrant histories, Yiddish language and culture, and archival preservation. A notable pattern is how debates between authors, historians, and curators illuminate the intersections of memory, culture, and public education, often pairing a book's arguments with archival or fieldwork insights. Listeners can expect rigorous scholarly conversation, access to primary-source context, and a strong emphasis on how history informs present-day identity, memory work, and cultural stewardship. The show frequently showcases ... more

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