Podcasts by Between the Lines: Author Conversations from the Library of JTS
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The Art of the Jewish Family: A History Of Women In Early New York In Five Objects from 2020-06-24T18:54:19
A DISCUSSION WITH AUTHOR DR. LAURA ARNOLD LEIBMAN
In "The Art of the Jewish Family" Dr. Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who lived in N...
Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto: Writing Our History from 2020-01-23T17:00:40
A discussion with JTS's Dr. David G. Roskies about his powerful new collection of writings from the Warsaw Ghetto, recording the Holocaust from the perspective of its first interpreters, the victim...
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Abraham Joshua Heschel: Mind, Heart, Soul from 2019-12-11T22:18:46
In his magisterial new biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Dr. Edward K. Kaplan tells the engrossing, behind-the-scenes story of the life, philosophy, struggles, yearnings, writings, and activism ...
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Introducing The Evolution of Torah: a history of rabbinic literature from 2019-11-27T22:20:09
Episode 1: Who Were the Rabbis?
What led to the emergence of the group of scholars and teachers we call the Rabbis? What motivated them and what did they value? The Rabbis looked to thei...
Job: A New Translation from 2019-11-20T17:34:31
A Discussion with Translator Edward L. Greenstein
The Book of Job has often been called the greatest poem ever written. The book, in Edward Greenstein’s characterization, is “a Wunderkin...
Confronting Hate from 2019-10-29T16:17:23
As hate crimes and domestic terrorism dominate the headlines, the legacy of the late Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum as a leader in interfaith and race relations in the United States and around the world beco...
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Introducing What Now? A JTS Podcast from 2019-06-02T19:25:12
In this opening episode of JTS’s new podcast, What Now?, host Sara Beth Berman tells her story and speaks with Professor Alan Mittleman. Dr. Mittleman shares his own experiences with loss, framing ...
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Four Rabbis at Lunch from 2019-05-28T16:18
Four rabbis from a local community—one Orthodox, two Conservative, and one Reform—meet each week at a local kosher deli to discuss Jewish law, theology, and synagogue business. This new work of fic...
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The Paris Photo from 2019-03-20T21:32:32
Dr. Jane S. Gabin's historical novel looks at the complicated life and aftermath of the occupation of Paris during WWII and spotlights Jewish experiences during the Nazi occupation of the city. Her...
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Movies and Midrash from 2018-12-13T21:18:53
Dr. Wendy Zierler's Movies and Midrash pioneers the use of cinema as a springboard to discuss central Jewish texts and matters of belief. Exploring what Jewish tradition, text, and theology have to...
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The Art of Mystical Narrative from 2018-12-13T18:13:20
Watch the event video at http://www.jtsa.edu/the-art-of-mystical-narrative-a-zohar-symposium
The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective from 2018-11-20T21:44:12
Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God...
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Waking Lions from 2018-04-30T17:25:02
Important next-generation Israeli author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s gripping novel narrates the aftermath of an Israeli neurosurgeon’s accidental killing of an Eritrean migrant. Newly translated from H...
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If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir from 2018-04-18T20:25:02
At the age of 27, alone in Jerusalem in the wake of a painful divorce, Ilana Kurshan decided to begin learning daf yomi, the “daily page” of the Talmud. By the time she completed the Talmud after s...
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The Ruined House: A Novel from 2018-02-01T20:25:02
Ruby Namdar’s The Ruined House received the Sapir Prize, Israel’s most prestigious literary award. Now newly translated into English, Namdar’s tale of a man whose comfortable secular life begins to...
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Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World from 2017-12-04T20:25:02
The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Middle East and to the Jews living there. The Talmud, written in and for an agrarian society, was in many ways il...
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Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel from 2017-11-01T20:25:02
Francine Klagsbrun's definitive new biography of Golda Meir brings to life a world figure unlike any other. An iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandm...
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The Other Peace Process from 2017-10-23T10:25:02
A discussion with Rabbi Ron Kronish on his new book, The Other Peace Process: Interreligious Dialogue, A View from Jerusalem.Drawing on personal experiences from his 25-year career as founding dire...
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The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben Eli on the Book of Proverbs from 2017-05-09T10:25:02
Ilana Sasson, instructor at Sacred Heart University and JTS alumna, discusses her new critical edition of a key Arabic translation and commentary on the book of Proverbs. Working in the 10th centur...
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Nathan Englander: Dinner at the Center of the Earth from 2017-04-03T10:25:02
Dinner at the Center of the Earth, a new political thriller from Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author Nathan Englander, unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian confl...
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Braced: A Book Talk and Discussion from 2017-04-03T10:25:02
Aly Gerber’s young adult novel, Braced, is the story of a 12-year-old soccer player who learns she needs to wear a back brace 23 hours a day for her worsening scoliosis. As she adjusts to life with...
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Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response, 1391-1392 from 2017-03-13T10:25:02
In his new book, the winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship, JTS's Dina and Eli Field Family Chair in Jewish History Dr. Benjamin R. Gampel uses rich new archival data to ill...
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Kohelet's Pursuit of Truth: A New Reading of Ecclesiastes from 2017-03-01T10:25:02
In his book Kohelet’s Pursuit of Truth, Rabbi Benjamin J. Segal, former president of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, presents an arresting new translation and commentary o...
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