Join Sparks of History with noted author, journalist and lecturer James Traub
Senior Fellow, Center on International Cooperation, NYU
Author of:
City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College
The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the era of American World Power
John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
What was Liberalism?: The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea.
Mr. Traub discusses his award winning book,
Judah Benjamin, Counselor to the Confederacy, Yale University Press. Jewish Lives Series
'This is, by far, the best and most readable short biography of Benjamin that exists'
- Jonathan Sarna, author of American Judaism: A History
Episode #8 Jefferson Davis and Judah Benjamin
• Jefferson Davis: temperamental, fearful
• Judah Benjamin: calming influence
• Fought in Senate, challenged to a duel
• Found Benjamin to be indispensable
• Benjamin could do the work of 10 men
• Balance Wheel, “Court Jew”
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Stalin's Last Crime - The Doctors' Plot - Professor Jonathan Brent
The Life & Legacy of Adin Steinsaltz - Rabbi Meni Even-Israel
People Love Dead Jews - Professor Dara Horn
Jerusalem Falls - Seven Centuries of War & Peace - Professor John Hosler
What Ifs of Jewish History - From Abraham to Zionism - Professor Gavriel Rosenfeld
The Tosafot - Professor Ephraim Kanarfogel
The Kuzari - Yehuda HaLevi - with Professor Daniel Lasker
History of Zionism - Rabbi Pinchas Landis
Jewish Questions - Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern Period - Professor Matt Goldish
Maharal of Prague - Rabbi Yehoshua Hartman
Gershom Scholem - Life & Library = Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Leshem
Avraham ben HaRambam (Abraham Maimonides) - Rabbi Moshe Maimon
Rav Chaim of Volozhin - Rabbi Dr. Raphael Shuchat
Seventy Conversations in Transit with HaGaon HaRav Joseph B. Soloveitchik zt”l - Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler
Maimonides Across Eight Centuries - Dr. David Sclar
Shakespeare & The Jews - Dr. Sophie Duncan
USA Presidents & Zionism - Professor Gil Troy
Great Jewish Treasures - Rabbi Moshe Bamberger
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