Yair Rosenberg

Yair Rosenberg is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of its newsletter Deep Shtetl, about the intersection of politics, culture, and religion. Previously a senior writer at Tablet Magazine, he has also written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian, and his work has received recognition from the Religion News Association and the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies.

July 11, 2024

Episode 10: Between Hate and Hope

In August 2017, white supremacists marched on Charlottesville, VA to silence the Jews, Black Americans, and other minorities whom they feared would “replace us.” The Unite the Right Rally was one of many ominous signs of per…
Guests: Mehnaz Afridi, Ph.D. , Jonathan Greenblatt, M.B.A. , Yair Rosenberg , David Sorkin, Ph.D.
July 11, 2024

Episode 9: David and Goliath

In the decades following the Six-Day War in 1967, anti-Zionism gained momentum in American academia and led to the rise of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement on college campuses. Nearly sixty years later, the Oc…
Guests: Michael Feuer, Ph.D. , Rachel Fish, Ph.D. , Adena Kirstein , Alana Mondschein , Cary Nelson, Ph.D. , Yair Rosenberg
July 11, 2024

Episode 5: Conspiracies

At the turn of the 20th century, conspiracy theories about Jews ran rampant in American society. Many Americans – from the famed automaker Henry Ford and to officers in the U.S. Army – believed that Jews controlled media, do…
Guests: Joseph Bendersky, Ph.D. , Yair Rosenberg , Victoria Saker Woeste, Ph.D.
July 11, 2024

Episode 1: No Sanction to Bigotry

Before the American Revolution, Sephardic Jews like Aaron Lopez found economic opportunity and religious freedom in Newport, Rhode Island, but not full citizenship, nor the right to vote. What promise did an independent Unit…
Guest: Yair Rosenberg