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In this episode of The Jewish Lives Podcast, Derek Penslar explores how Theodor Herzl, an assimilated European Jew, rose to become the leader of the Zionist ...

Louis D. Brandeis is hailed as a visionary constitutional philosopher of the twentieth century. Jeffrey Rosen, the author of the Jewish Lives biography "Loui...

The Jewish Lives Podcast episode about Barbra Streisand explores her role as a cultural icon challenging traditional Hollywood standards of beauty and glamou...

The Jewish Lives Podcast episode on Irving Berlin highlights the composer's significant impact on American popular song, with George Gershwin even calling hi...

Emma Goldman, a prominent anarchist figure, is explored in the Jewish Lives Podcast through the perspective of Vivian Gornick, who authored a biography about...

Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg discusses the enigmatic figure of Moses in Jewish culture on the Jewish Lives Podcast. Zornberg, author of "Moses: A Human Life," pr...

Shlomo Avineri delves into the Jewish background of Karl Marx, a prominent and revolutionary thinker often misunderstood or disregarded in terms of his Jewis...