Welcome to the JRB Podcast
Welcome to the Jewish Review of Books Podcast! For a long time now, we’ve wanted to share the discussions the editors get to have with our brilliant writers, and now we’ll be doing just that. We’ll be covering books and ideas about religion, literature, culture, and politics.
Our first episodes will feature writers Neta Stahl, Stu Halpern, Matti Friedman, and Ben Balint. We’ll be bringing you those episodes and more soon, so listen now and subscribe.
Suggested Reading
Old Isaiah
When Woodrow Wilson became the first president to nominate a Jew for a seat on the Supreme Court, much of the opposition to his appointment revolved around his Jewishness.
Another Round with Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer had the gift of enlivening everything he touched. And he touched almost everything, from politics to Hollywood to Sports. But his Jewish novel stayed in the drawer.
At Professor Bachlam’s
A lost chapter from Agnon's final, classic novel Shira, translated here for the first time.
The Fix Was In
The 1951 basketball game that pitted CCNY, which fielded blacks and Jews, against the all-white University of Kentucky seemed less a meeting of schools than a clash of civilizations: old versus new, South versus North, prejudice versus tolerance.
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