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The Dybbukast


Radio, Propaganda, and The War of the Worlds
Season 5, Episode 1 This illuminated lecture features Professor Paul Lerner as he discusses the famous 1938 radio broadcast by Orson...


Hymn of the Majestic
Season 4, Bonus Episode This illuminated lecture features Alan Niku as he seeks to answer these questions: How did Jews in Persia...


Lilith
Season 4, Episode 7 In this episode, presented in collaboration with the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley, we...


Fiction without Romance
Season 4, Episode 6 In this episode, presented in collaboration with the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education...


The Marvelous Puppet Show
Season 4, Episode 5 This illuminated lecture brings together readings from the short play "The Marvelous Puppet Show" by Miguel de...


At Newport
Season 4, Episode 4 In this episode, presented in collaboration with Hebrew College, we begin by exploring two poems from the second half...


Primary Source: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Season 4, Guest Episode This guest episode from Primary Source, a limited series podcast from the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at...


The Merchant of Venice: Annotated
Season 4, Episode 3 Dr. Jennifer Wells, former Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs at the George Washington...


The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare in Performance
Season 4, Episode 2 This illuminated lecture brings together work from Dr. Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, Visiting Scholar at Portland State...


The Merchant of Venice: Ghetto
Season 4, Episode 1 In this episode, presented in collaboration with the George Washington University Department of History, we examine...


Studying Sacred Texts
Season 3, Episode 7 In the concluding episode of our five-episode series in partnership with the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic...


The Book of Tahkemoni
Season 3, Episode 6 In this fourth of our five-episode series in partnership with the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at...


The Sayings of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
Season 3, Episode 5 In this third of our five-episode series in partnership with the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at...


The Imagined Childhood
Season 3, Episode 4 In this second of our five-episode series with the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis...


The Chronicles of the Rabbis
Season 3, Episode 3 In this first of our five-episode series with the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis...


The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
A Conversation with Geraldine Heng Season 3, Guest Episode In this special guest episode from the American Academy of Religion, Dr....


The Dybbukast + NEJS
The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (NEJS) at Brandeis University is collaborating with theatre dybbuk to present a unique...


Why I Was a Zionist and Why I Now Am Not
Season 3, Episode 2 In this episode, presented in collaboration with the Jewish Museum of Maryland , we share selections from a speech by...


Years Have Sped By
Season 3, Episode 1 In this episode, presented in collaboration with the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, we...


Adapting Exagoge
Season 2, Episode 8
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