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    Sept. 1, 2023
    The Polish sculptor creating masterpieces inspired by places where terrified Jews hid during Holocaust

    Polish Jew and Dan David Prize winner Natalia Romik says her work helps eastern Europe understand its Jewish past

    Gloria Tessler, The Jewish Chronicle

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    August 7, 2023
    Podcast: Detente? Christian-Jewish Relations in the Postwar Era

    Dr. Karma Ben Johanan discusses her new book Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish relations after Vatican II. What were the implications of the Vatican’s new approach to Judaism, announced in the 1960s, across the Catholic world and among Jewish theologians?

    TLV1, Tel Aviv Review

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    July 3, 2023
    Meet the ‘headstrong historian’ bringing Africa’s past to life – for Africans

    A visit to Nairobi’s archives led to a ‘eureka moment’ for Kenyan Chao Tayiana. She set out to retell colonial narratives – using digital technology to bring lost and suppressed stories to light.

    Caroline Kimeu, The Guardian

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    June 6, 2023
    Podcast: How women helped sustain the slave trade

    Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers reveals how white women across the American South played crucial roles in perpetuating the system of slavery.

    HistoryExtra

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    June 5, 2023
    Podcast: White women slave owners

    Of all of the people enslaved in the southern U.S. over time, 40% were owned by women. When she married George Washington in 1759, Martha Washington was herself the enslaver of 84 people.

    History Pod Blast

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    June 4, 2023
    The surprising diet of early humans: Scholar drills into thousands of years of dental plaque

    From an early age, Dr. Anita Radini knew that she wanted to become an archaeologist. But little did she know that she would become an expert in analyzing the dental plaque of early humans to learn about their lives, work that brought her the prestigious 2023 Dan David Prize.

    Ran Puni, Israel Hayom

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    June 2, 2023
    Podcast: Plot or Paranoia? The Amboyna Conspiracy Trial

    Adam Clulow explores how fears of a sprawling conspiracy took hold in a remote Dutch East India Company fort in 1623 - with deadly consequences.

    HistoryExtra

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    Climate activists take part in a “die-in” this month outside a Chase Bank location in Washington, D.C. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
    May 31, 2023
    Activists are looking to banking regulations to combat climate change

    How the banking industry consolidated and became a key part of the climate fight - Perspective by Bart Elmore

    Bart Elmore, The Washington Post

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    May 24, 2023
    ‘I Realized It’s Preferable to Study Fundamentalism Than Be a Fundamentalist’

    Her father became a religious Jew, her mother turned to Buddhism, she herself became an active ‘hilltop youth’ in the West Bank. Meet Dr. Karma Ben Johanan, whose life and research is suffused with radical religiosity.

    Shany Littman, Haaretz

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    Ana Antic
    May 23, 2023
    How do politics, violence, psychology and colonization intersect?

    "I think it is very important to understand the relations between mental illness, violence and politics," says 2023 Dan David Prize winner Dr. Ana Antic.

    Neria Barr, The Jerusalem Post

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    Image of Christine de Pisan writing a book (1407) from Andrea Hopkins, Six Medieval Women, p. 108.Credit: Kelson
    May 21, 2023
    Seeing the ‘Invisible Humans’ of Archaeology Through the Gunk on Their Teeth

    Ancient plaque analysis has been revealing dietary secrets and unexpected origins from the deepest prehistory. Now Dan David prizewinner Anita Radini takes the science to a new level: detecting ancient occupations.

    Ruth Schuster, Haaretz

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    May 15, 2023
    Podcast: Country Capitalism with Bartow Elmore

    The "Amazon economy" seems like something new, but it rests on the physical and intellectual infrastructure built by those who came long before the age of the internet, and leaves many of the same marks on the environment.

    The Road to Now

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