In this episode, I sit down with my sister, Emily Kroft, to discuss Maimonides, the Spanish Inquisition, internalized antisemitism, the nuances of Jewish assimilation, and what defines Jewish identity.

In this episode, I sit down with Belle Jarniewski to discuss the First Crusade, some of Maimonides's most influential ideas, the nature of Jewish resilience, and the expulsion of Jews from Europe.

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Lainey Bokhaut to discuss the first 500 years of the common era. Listen as we discuss the state of modern Jewish rebellion, the importance of perspective-taking, and what it means to be on the right side of history.

In this episode, we return to India to meet two new groups of Jews who would become prominent populations in Indian society; we travel to China, where we see how Chinese Jews attempted to blend Jewish tradition with Chinese neo-Confuscian culture and philosophy; and we survey the Jews of East and West Africa, and briefly discuss the evidence of Afro-Jewish origin.

In this episode, we see a new Pope elected, and a new wave of Jewish expulsions sweep across Europe. We follow Gracia and Joseph Nasi to Constantinople, and watch them ascend to great heights within the Ottoman Empire. We see a new Jewish city established in northern Palestine, and learn of the golden age of Kaballah. And we meet the Jewish serving women who became close advisors of some of the most powerful political figures in Ottoman society.

In this episode, we meet the Mendes family, and watch as they orchestrate the daring and dangerous escape of thousands of conversos from Portugal.

In this episode, I sit down with Rabbi Anibal Mass to discuss the Karaites, how technology has modernized Jewish practice, how to define "Jewish music", and how the emergence of Christianity and Islam has shaped Jewish history.

In this episode, we will meet the first conversos to set foot on the American continent, see an Ashkenazi population boom in Poland and Lithuania, and witness the rise to dominance of the Mamluk and Ottoman Empires.

In this episode, we will see what became of the conversos who fled to Portugal in the wake of the Spanish Inquisition, tour the first formal Jewish ghetto in history, and meet two mysterious Jewish figures who would go on to brush shoulders with popes and kings.

In this episode, we will review the history covered in Season 3, spanning from the Great Schism of the church in 1054 CE until the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492.