Jewish History Matters Jason Lustig

Rachel Harris joins us to talk about her recent volume Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Jessica Kirzane and Saul Zaritt join the podcast to talk about their work on In Geveb, an online journal of Yiddish studies.

Susannah Heschel joins us to talk about the work and legacy of her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel

What is censorship? How can we identify it, and understand how it functions and what are its effects? Hannah Marcus joins us for a fascinating discussion about her research on the history of the censorship of scientific and medical texts in early modern Italy which opens up a wide-ranging set of issues about the nature of censorship in historical context and the control of knowledge in more recent times, too.

What happens to our stuff when we're gone? Hillel Smith and Alanna Cooper join the podcast to talk about their projects that consider what happens to Jewish communities and their stuff, both buildings and objects, especially when we look at communities and synagogues that shrink, disappear, merge together, or move from one place to another.

Jonathan Sarna discusses "American Judaism: A History," which was recently published in a second, revised edition. Listen in for a wide-ranging conversation about American Jewish history at large, about Jonathan's work at large and the book American Judaism in particular. As we discuss in the episode, American Judaism is one of a series of books which have been published in recent years that has tried to synthesize American Jewish history, so we will look closely at how the landscape of American Jewish historical studies has developed, how we tell the history of America's Jews, and why it matters.