Present-day discussions of anti-Semitism often involve Israel and the Zionist movement... but before the 20th century, Jews' and Jewish scholars' understandings of anti-Semitism were completely connected with Europe and Christianity.In the fi

Episode 4: Jewish Anti-Semitism?

Jan 27th, 2021 31m 53s

Can Jews be anti-Semitic against other Jews? In this episode, guest Devin E. Naar looks at the history of Jewish prejudice against other Jews in the United States, from the very first American Jewish settlers in the 1600s to twentieth-century e

Episode 3: Being Jewish in Medieval Spain

Jan 20th, 2021 28m 27s

Has anti-Semitism always been the same, or have ideas about Jewishness, and suspicion towards Jews, changed over time? In this episode, guest Ana Gómez-Bravo explores these questions by looking at the lives of Jews and "conversos" (Jewish con

Episode 2: The Rise of Nazi Germany

Jan 13th, 2021 30m 19s

We generally connect Germany with anti-Semitism, but in the early twentieth century, Germany was actually considered one of the best places in the world to be Jewish. How and why did the progressive Weimar Republic give way to the genocidal Naz

Episode 1: Anti-Semitism in the United States

Jan 6th, 2021 30m 43s

The United States was the country where Jews came to finally be free from anti-Semitism... or was it? Historians of the modern era tend to think of the U.S. as an exceptional place for Jews — a place where Jewish people have been able to exist

Genocide In Myanmar: The Case Before the International Court of Justice

Dec 3rd, 2020 49m 31s

Myanmar is facing charges that its military committed genocide against the Rohingya people, beginning with a series of violent attacks in 2017. In January 2020, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a preliminary ruling granting “prov

From the Ottoman Empire to Auschwitz and Beyond: Is the Holocaust a “European” Event? — Devin Naar

Nov 20th, 2020 1h 9m

Although usually understood as a “European” event, the Holocaust also resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Jews born in the predominantly Muslim world of the Ottoman Empire (e. g., today’s Greece). Grappling with the particularities o

Jewish Dogs and the Nazi Beast: Animal Studies and Holocaust Literature - Naomi Sokoloff

Nov 6th, 2020 27m 36s

Nazis viewed Jews as subhuman, and often referred to them as dogs, apes, and vermin. How have Jews experienced and responded to such dehumanization over time? Naomi Sokoloff, Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the Universit

Ideologies of Racial Superiority & Purity: Germany, Japan & Mass Murder in WWII - Daniel Chirot

Oct 28th, 2020 1h 5m

Though there were differences between Germany’s effort to wipe out Jews (and others) and Japan’s massacres, there was a common ideological basis for these outrages. What lay behind Nazi ideology and Japan’s aggressive militarism, and why were t

The Difficulty Of Confronting The Holocaust: Mass Murder In Jedwabne, Poland - Jan Gross

Oct 21st, 2020 1h 16m

Jan Gross, emeritus professor of history at Princeton University, discusses mass murder and struggles over incorporating the atrocities of the Holocaust into official history by looking at anti-Jewish massacres in 1940s Poland.Jan Gross is th

Racism, Anti-Semitism, and the Lines of Solidarity - Nicolaas P. Barr

Oct 21st, 2020 50m 25s

How was Nazi anti-Semitism related to other forms of racism, and what how can this relationship inform racial justice movements today? Nicolaas P. Barr, lecturer in the Comparative History of Ideas, explores the insights of Black intellectual

Özleyiş (Longing) - Columbia Tango Orchestra

Aug 27th, 2020 1m 27s

Özleyiş (Longing) - Columbia Tango Orchestra by Stroum Center for Jewish Studies

Haydi Dostlar rumba (Come on friends) - Mahmure Şenses

Aug 27th, 2020 1m 11s

Haydi Dostlar rumba (Come on friends) - Mahmure Şenses by Stroum Center for Jewish Studies

Yandım Tokat Yandım (I'm Burned Tokat I'm Burned) - Mary Vartanian

Aug 27th, 2020 1m 5s

Yandım Tokat Yandım (I'm Burned Tokat I'm Burned) - Mary Vartanian by Stroum Center for Jewish Studies

3/3 TALK | Christopher Browning - From Humanitarian Relief to Holocaust Rescue: Tracy Strong Jr

Mar 4th, 2020 1h 33m

Dr. Christopher Browning, visiting faculty in the University of Washington's Department of History, explains how individuals and organizations mobilized to rescue refugees in Nazi-occupied France through the story of aid worker-turned-rescuer T

In What Sense Was Spinoza a Revolutionary Thinker?- Jonathan Israel, Stroum Lectures 2017

Jul 21st, 2017 52m

In this lecture on Spinoza's legacy as a revolutionary, Professor Jonathan Israel outlines Baruch Spinoza’s key writings in favor of democracy and democratic republicanism–-and against restrictive religious and state institutions-–and explains

Violence, Militancy & How Civilians React- Emily Gade

May 9th, 2017 20m 39s

Doctoral student Emily Gade discusses her research on radicalization, terror attacks, resiliency against violence, and the factors that influence how people respond to trauma. In particular, she examines the work of the Israeli recovery organiz

Migrants’ Mobilization for Rights and Recognition in Israel- Oded Oron

Mar 10th, 2017 29m 49s

Doctoral student Oded Oron discusses the plight of African migrants in the state of Israel in this talk. The video played during the presentation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxiQaMJpFfUOded Oron was born and raised in Tel Aviv, a

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