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NBN Episodes hosted by Robin:
August 27, 2024
Cities of Refuge
In the years following Hitler’s rise to power, German Jews faced increasingly restrictive antisemitic laws, and many responded by fleeing to more tole…
March 18, 2021
Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age
How do technological advances and changing archival practices alter historical memory? In what ways have developments in the preservation and dissemin…
August 25, 2020
Rescue the Surviving Souls
A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of thousands …
August 14, 2020
Hitler’s Jewish Refugees
Marion Kaplan's riveting book, Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal (Yale University Press) describes the dramatic experiences of Je…
June 8, 2020
Khurbm 1914-1922
The murder of two-thirds of European Jews, referred to by many as the Holocaust, did not begin June 22, 1941, with the German invasion of the Soviet U…
January 9, 2020
Homes Away from Home
In pre-emancipation Europe, most Jews followed Jewish law most of the time, but by the turn of the twentieth century, a new secular Jewish identity ha…
September 16, 2019
State, Nationalism, and the Jewish Communities of Modern Greece
How did minorities fit into the new Greek state during the country’s transition from imperial rule to national sovereignty? How did the relationship b…
October 30, 2018
World War I and the Jews
How was Jewish life affected by the First World War? How did Jews around the world understand, engage with, and influence the Great War and surroundin…
October 25, 2018
Stealing Home
While the history of the Second World War and Jewish persecution in France has been widely studied, the return of survivors in the aftermath of deport…
August 24, 2018
The Beginnings of Ladino Literature
When did Ladino literature emerge? According to Dr. Olga Borovaya, author of The Beginnings of Ladino Literature: Moses Almosnino and his Readers (Ind…
May 24, 2018
Pioneers and Partisans
How did Soviet Jews respond to the Holocaust and the devastating transformations that accompanied persecution? How was the Holocaust experienced, surv…
May 21, 2018
Italy’s Jews from Emancipation to Fascism
What was Italy’s role in the Holocaust? Why is it that Italy is known as the Axis power that was benevolent to Jews, despite a scholarly consensus tha…
March 29, 2018
Passing Illusions
What did it mean to be perceived as Jewish or non-Jewish in Weimar Germany? How, in an age of growing antisemitism, was Jewishness revealed, or made i…
March 19, 2018
Escape from Vichy
In Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean (Harvard University Press, 2018), Eric T. Jennings reveals the fascinating history of…
March 14, 2018
Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine
How do immigrant populations navigate between ancestral ties and connections to their new homes? How do their plural histories create layered identiti…
February 20, 2018
City on a Hilltop
Who are the American Jews behind many of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank? This is the question that Dr. Sara Hirschhorn, Research Lecturer at…
February 9, 2018
The Going
Leon Wiener Dow's most recent work The Going: A Meditation on Jewish Law (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) offers readers intimate, informative, and at times…
January 10, 2018
Trauma in First Person
In his most recent work, Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2017), Amos Goldberg examines Jewish di…
December 24, 2017
Across Legal Lines
In Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press, 2016), Jessica Marglin skillfully narrates how Jews and Muslims navi…