Giuseppe Motta, "Jewish Refugees and the International Community Between the Two World Wars: Beyond the State" (Routledge, 2026)

The Jew Who Would Be King: A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa with Adam Rovner (U California Press, 2025)

Oct 3, 2026 - 01:00:51

This vivid reconstruction of one man’s life reveals the harsh realities and moral ambiguities of colonial...View more

Who Gets to Write History? Wikibiases.org by Shlomit Aharoni Lir

Oct 2, 2026 - 00:37:40

Most of us use Wikipedia without thinking very much about it. A name comes up in conversation, an argumen...View more

Credit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and the Shaping of American Finance, 1873–1930 with Rebecca Kobrin (Harvard UP, 2026)

Oct 2, 2026 - 00:59:46

From a leading historian, the story of how entrepreneurial Jewish immigrants transformed commercial banki...View more

The Last of the Ellis Island Jews: A Brooklyn Memoir with Joel Dinerstein (SUNY Press, 2026)

Sep 29, 2026 - 00:39:14

Joel Dinerstein's The Last of the Ellis Island Jews (SUNY Press, 2026) is a tragicomic memoir of a dysfun...View more

Antisemitism, an American Tradition with Pamela S. Nadell (Norton, 2025)

Sep 25, 2026 - 00:51:59

Pamela S. Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History and is Director of the J...View more

Matthew Montgomery, "An Intercessor Like Moses: A Key Component of the Psalter's Message" (European Hebrew Journal, 2026)

Sep 22, 2026 - 00:36:43

In this episode of the New Books Network, Željko Stanojević speaks with Matthew Montgomery about his arti...View more

Anthony Julius, "Abraham: The First Jew" (Yale UP, 2025)

Sep 15, 2026 - 00:28:42

Joseph G. Rosenstein, "Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers): The Big Picture" (Academic Studies Press, 2026)

Sep 12, 2026 - 00:48:06

What if Pirkei Avot has a bigger story to tell? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with Joseph G....View more