84: The First Aliyah and Historical Memory of Jewish Settlement in Israel/Palestine with Liora R. Halperin
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by Jason Lustig
2y ago
Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list Liora Halperin joins us to discuss her book The Oldest Guard: Forting the Zionist Settler Past, and the broader issues it raises about the history of Zionist settlement in Israel and Palestine, historical memory, and why it all matters. Listen in as we dive into the history and memory of the early Zionist movement, and the ways in which it has shaped the discourse and debates over more than a century. You can read an excerpt of The Oldest Guard here. Liora R. Halperin is Associate Professor of International Studies and History, and Distin ..read more
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83: Ethical Technology and the Holocaust with Deb Donig
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by Jason Lustig
2y ago
Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list In this episode, Deb Donig joins us for a conversation about the intersection between contemporary technology and culture and the lessons of history. Listen in as we dive into ethical technology, the Holocaust, and what it means to learn from the past as we think about the present and future. Deb Donig is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Cal Poly. She is the co-founder of the Cal Poly Ethical Technology Initiative, the incoming Director of the Center for Expressive Technologies, and the host of “Technically Human,” a podcast ..read more
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82: The War in Ukraine and its Historical and Cultural Context with Amelia Glaser and Jeffrey Veidlinger
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by Jason Lustig
2y ago
Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list This episode, Jeffrey Veidlinger and Amelia Glaser join us to talk about the ongoing war in Ukraine and its historical and cultural context. We recorded on Tuesday, March 8th, 2022, and we are working to get this episode published as quickly as possible because so much can change so quickly. Listen in as we think about the background to the war, how we can understand Jewish history in Ukraine, and particularly Putin’s deranged claim to “denazify” Ukraine. Amelia Glaser is Associate Professor of Literature at UC San Diego, where she also ho ..read more
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81: Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Contemporary Holocaust Debates with Victoria Aarons, Jenny Caplan, and Jodi Eichler-Levine
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by Jason Lustig
2y ago
Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list This episode, we are hosting a roundtable discussion with Victoria Aarons, Jenny Caplan, and Jodi Eichler-Levine about Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus, and the recent controversy from January 2022 when a school board in Tennessee banned its teaching. This is a timely topic that ties together the history of Holocaust memory, Holocaust literature (including children’s Holocaust literature), education, and broad social and cultural issues of the present. Listen in as we dive into why Maus is such an important, even landmark work in Holoca ..read more
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80: Jewish American Writing and World Literature with Saul Noam Zaritt
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by Jason Lustig
2y ago
Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list Saul Noam Zaritt speaks about Jewish American literature, its place in world literature, and what this tells us about how we understand modern Jewish history and culture at large. It’s the focus of his recent book, Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody, where he explores a number of Jewish writers who were working in Yiddish or in translation, including Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sholem Asch, Jacob Glatstein, Saul Bellow, and others, and what their work tells us about the transformation of modern Jew ..read more
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79: Palestine and the Power of the Archive with Gil Z. Hochberg
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by Jason Lustig
2y ago
Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list In this episode, our guest is Gil Z. Hochberg, who will be speaking about how we can develop a sophisticated approach to thinking about Palestine and Israel through the concept of “the Archive.” Gil Z. Hochberg is the Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University where she is also chair of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. She is the author of numerous books, the most recent of which is Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future ..read more
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78: Jewish Primitivism with Samuel Spinner
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by Jason Lustig
2y ago
Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list In this episode, we’re joined by Sam Spinner to talk about Jewish primitivism. Listen in as we take a deep dive into primitivism in European culture, Jewish primitivism and its politics, and what it all means when we think about twentieth century Jewish life. Read an excerpt from Jewish Primitivism from Stanford University Press Purchase Jewish Primitivism (Amazon) Samuel Spinner is the Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Assistant Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University. His book Jewish Primitivism, whic ..read more
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77: Rabbi Leo Baeck with Michael A. Meyer
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by Jason Lustig
2y ago
Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list In this episode, we’re joined by Michael A. Meyer to talk about Rabbi Leo Baeck and his legacy, as a window into twentieth-century German Jewish history, both before the Holocaust and also in the shadow of that tremendous tragedy. Listen in as we discuss his new book, Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times, and think about the big picture lessons we can take away from Baeck’s life and his legacy. Read an excerpt from Rabbi Leo Baeck Purchase Rabbi Leo Baeck on Amazon Michael A. Meyer is the Adolph S. Ochs Profe ..read more
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76: Iraqi Jewry and Its Global Diaspora with Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah
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by Jason Lustig
2y ago
Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list In this episode, we’re joined by Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah to talk about Iraqi Jewry and its global diaspora. Listen in as we dive into the development of Iraqi or Baghdadi Jewry and its many satellite communities in the twentieth century—in India, China, Singapore, and elsewhere—and how we thereby can understand the global nature of Jewish communal, commercial, and other kinds of networks, and also the meaning of diaspora and dispersion more generally. Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah is an assistant professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Stud ..read more
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75: The Jews’ Indian and Global Settler Colonialism with David S. Koffman
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by Jason Lustig
2y ago
Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list David S. Koffman joins the podcast to talk about Jews and native peoples in North America. It’s the topic of his recent book, The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America, which serves as the jumping off point for our wide-ranging conversation. In this episode, we dive into how American Jews imagined Indians in the 19th and 20th centuries — similar to the broader process of how other white settlers created their own imagined version of native peoples — and what this means this means we try to make sense of American Je ..read more
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