Modern Judaism - The Essentials EP 1. Theodor Herzl "Altneuland”: Derek Penslar

“Modern Judaism - The Essentials”, is an interview series produced by the Department for Modern Jewish History and Culture and the Institute for Israel Studies at the Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich. In this podcast, we speak with scholars about texts, we think are essential for Jewish modernity. The question “What makes a book or a text essential or canonical” is difficult to answer. Therefore, we suggest thinking about this podcast more as a textual mixtape representing a specific intellectual taste. For the first episode of this podcast, we invited Professor Derek Penslar from Harvard University to speak about Theodor Herzl’s novel Altneuland. The interview was recorded in January 2023. Speaker: Ghilad H. Shenhav