Combating antisemitism

The Holocaust

A New History

By: Laurence Rees
Narrated by: Eric Vale
Length: 19 hours 28 minutes

n June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an SS doctor, Freda's life was spared and her mother was sent to the gas chambers. Freda only survived because the Allies won the war -- the Nazis ultimately wanted every Jew to die. Her mother was... Read more

Witness

Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom

By: Ariel Burger
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

“Elie Wiesel — witness, writer, and humanitarian — wanted to be remembered foremost as a teacher. Ariel Burger, a longtime student, teaching assistant, and friend, has given us an intimate and moving portrait of this extraordinary man and the profound lessons he had to share. Read more

Squirrel Hill

The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood

By: Mark Oppenheimer
Narrated by: Mark Oppenheimer
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America's renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Americans must confront on the road to healing.

Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit... Read more

The Guarded Gate

Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

By: Daniel Okrent
Narrated by: Daniel Okrent
Length: 14 hours

NAMED ONE OF THE “100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR” BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

From the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Last Call—this “rigorously historical” (The Washington Post) and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped America keep out “inferiors” in the 1920s is “a sobering, valuable contribution to... Read more

The Accusation

Blood Libel in an American Town

By: Edward Berenson
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

On Saturday, September 22, 1928, Barbara Griffiths, aged four, strayed into the woods surrounding the upstate village of Massena, New York. Hundreds of people looked everywhere for the child but could not find her. At one point, someone suggested that Barbara had been kidnapped and killed by Jews, and as the search continued, policemen and... Read more

Tears Over Russia

A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine's Pogroms

By: Lisa Brahin
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Between 1917 and 1921, twenty years before the Holocaust began, an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 Jews were murdered in anti-Jewish pogroms across the Ukraine. Lisa grew up transfixed by her grandmother Channa’s stories about her family being forced to flee their hometown of Stavishche, as armies and bandit groups raided village after village,... Read more

People Love Dead Jews

Reports from a Haunted Present

By: Dara Horn
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to appease the living.
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent... Read more

Antisemitism

What It Is. What It Isn't. Why It Matters

By: Julia Neuberger
Narrated by: Julia Neuberger
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

There has been a disturbing rise in antisemitism in Europe over the last fifteen years or so, with violent attacks on Jewish targets, increased verbal antisemitism, and an acceptability in many circles of what would hitherto have been condemned as outrageous antisemitic discourse. More recently, the Labour party have come under fire for engaging... Read more

Antisemitism

Here and Now

By: Deborah E. Lipstadt
Narrated by: Ellen Archer, Paul Boehmer & Phoebe Strole
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

***2019 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER—Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion and Iden­ti­ty Award***

The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from white... Read more