Dialogues in Judaic Studies
Ari Barbalat
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This podcast features educational, informative and intellectually compelling conversations with authors of newly-published books and recently-released monographs on Jewish history, Jewish religion, Jewish philosophy and Jewish literature. The podcast intends to reach academic specialists, members of the reading public and beginners with entry-level curiosity.
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S1E11 Kristine Henriksen Garroway, *The Dying Child: The Death and Personhood of Children in Ancient Israel*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025.
The loss of a child is one of the most painful, sorrowful, and seemingly unnatural experiences that anyone can endure. Nevertheless, it is still unclear if this sentiment was also felt by the people…
S1E12 Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, *Cultic Spiritualization: Religious Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls*. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2022.
Since the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947, their material evidence and compelling content have fascinated both scholars and the general public. Regarded as one of the most significant…
Joseph Scales, *Galilean Spaces of Identity: Judaism and Spatiality in Hasmonean and Herodian Galilee*. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
We interpret the world surrounding us through the constructed spaces we inhabit. These spaces are formed by human activities and, in turn, shape the way people live. This book delves into an analysis…
S1E10 Rebecca Harris, *Religious Experience and Divinization in the Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls: Living in the Liminal*. Leiden: Brill, 2026.
For those engaged in the sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls movement, membership in the group would have granted them exceptional privileges, including direct and unmediated access to otherworldly realities.…
Rina Lapidus, *Russian Ideational Roots of Jewish Thought and Hebrew Literature*. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024.
This book explores how the intellectual and literary movements of Russia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries affected Jewish thought and Hebrew literature.By engaging in a comparative analysis…
S1E10 Ursula Westwood, *Moses Among the Greek Lawgivers: Reading Josephus’ Antiquities through Plutarch’s Lives*. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
Josephus' Antiquities depicts Moses as the Jewish lawgiver, altering the biblical story for a distinct audience. Nevertheless, who made up that audience, and how did they interpret the term lawgiver?…
S1E9 Jordan Henderson, *Defeat and Deliverance: Prefigurements of the Jewish Revolt against Rome in Josephus' Depictions of Past Invasions of Jerusalem*. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2026.
This monograph investigates Josephus’ representations of foreign invasions of Jerusalem as detailed in his Jewish Antiquities. The invasions covered include those by Shishak, Sennacherib,…
S1E8 Roni Weinstein, *Joseph Karo and the Shaping of Modern Jewish Law: The Early Modern Ottoman and Global Settings*. London: Anthem Press, 2022.
The dual legal codes established by R. Joseph Karo during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries mark a crucial milestone in the development of Jewish Halakhah. No further legal…
S1E7 Joseph Scales, *Galilean Spaces of Identity: Judaism and Spatiality in Hasmonean and Herodian Galilee*. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
We interpret the world surrounding us through the constructed spaces we inhabit. These spaces are formed by human activities and, in turn, shape the way people live. This book delves into an analysis…
S1E6 Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, *Cultic Spiritualization: Religious Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls*. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2022.
Since the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947, their material evidence and compelling content have fascinated both scholars and the general public. Regarded as one of the most significant…
Golan Moskowitz, *Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context*. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021.
*Wild Visionary* reexamines the life and work of Maurice Sendak through the lens of his identity as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak (1928–2012) was a passionate, romantic, and…
Mark L. Smith, *Building and Consoling a Nation: The Yiddish Historians in their Own Words*. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2026.
In the early 1900s, as the aspiration for Jewish cultural nationalism in the Diaspora was gaining momentum among advocates for Yiddish, the prominent intellectuals of the time included the "Yiddish…
Debby Koren, *Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities through Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Responsa*. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024.
This book features a collection of eight annotated translations of responsa, along with the original Hebrew texts, concentrating on the Spanish-Portuguese communities that arose after the expulsion…
S1E1 Golan Moskowitz, *Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context*. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021.
*Wild Visionary* reexamines the life and work of Maurice Sendak through the lens of his identity as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak (1928–2012) was a passionate, romantic, and…
Golan Moskowitz, *Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context*. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021.
*Wild Visionary* reexamines the life and work of Maurice Sendak through the lens of his identity as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak (1928–2012) was a passionate, romantic, and…
Josef Mendelevitch, *The Cantonists: Jewish Boys in the Russian Military, 1827-1856*. Rachelle Emanuel, trans. Boston: Academic Studies Press (in Partnership with Touro University Press in New York), 2025.
Before 1917, the Russian Tsar wielded total power over a sprawling empire, where more than 5 million Jews lived in seclusion and segregation. During the reign of Tsar Nicholas I (1825–1855), the…
S1E1 David Edwards, *In the Court of the Gentiles: Narrative, Exemplarity, and Scriptural Adaptation in the Court-Tales of Flavius Josephus*. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2023.
In this monograph, David Edwards explores how Josephus, in his work *Jewish Antiquities*, reinterprets the biblical stories of Joseph and Esther in unexpected ways, employing them as frameworks for…
S1E2 Debby Koren, *Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities through Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Responsa*. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024.
This book features a collection of eight annotated translations of responsa, along with the original Hebrew texts, concentrating on the Spanish-Portuguese communities that arose after the expulsion…
S1E3 Debby Koren, *Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities through Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Responsa*. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024.
This book features a collection of eight annotated translations of responsa, along with the original Hebrew texts, concentrating on the Spanish-Portuguese communities that arose after the expulsion…
S1E3 Mark L. Smith, *Building and Consoling a Nation: The Yiddish Historians in their Own Words*. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2026.
In the early 1900s, as the aspiration for Jewish cultural nationalism in the Diaspora was gaining momentum among advocates for Yiddish, the prominent intellectuals of the time included the "Yiddish…
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Dialogues in Judaic Studies has published 13 episodes since January 2026, covering topics in History, Judaism.
Dialogues in Judaic Studies is currently active with new episodes every few days. Average episode length is 1h 24m.
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