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”
USA Presidents & Zionism - Professor Gil Troy
Great Jewish Treasures - Rabbi Moshe Bamberger
History of Kabbalah - Professor Jonathan Dauber
Rabbi YY Jacobson - History of Hasidism
Ancient Synagogues of the Diaspora - Professor Steven Fine
For The Freedom Of Zion - The Great Revolt of Jews Against Romans, 66-74CE - Professor Guy Rogers
Masada, From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth - Professor Jodi Magness
The Geonim - Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner
Hitler in Los Angeles - Professor Steven Ross
Josephus - Professor Ari Mermelstein
Rabbi Berel Wein - Understanding Jewish History
Heroic Crypto Jew - Luis de Carvajal - Professor Ronnie Perelis
History USA Anti-Semitism - Ken Jacobson, ADL Deputy National Director
Golden Age of Jewish History - Rabbi Ken Spiro
The Pillar of Volozhin - Rabbi Dr. Gil Perl
Mussar Movement - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz
The Formation of the Talmud - Dr. Ari Bergmann
The World Must Know Holocaust - Dr. Michael Berenbaum
Rabbi Avishai David - Inspiring Stories of Our Gedolim
Our People - Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust - Dr. Efraim Zuroff
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