Simon Holloway is the Melbourne Holocaust Museum's Manager of Adult Education and Academic Engagement. He holds a PhD from the University of Sydney in Classical Hebrew and Biblical Studies, and a Masters in Ancient History.
This conversation spans a number of topics including how the Nazis used their interpretations of the Talmud to fuel their propaganda, antisemitism, anti-Zionism, Schrodinger's Whites, academic Biblical studies, truth, circumcision, and what Simon wishes to persist beyond his death.
Books mentioned in today's conversation:
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
- People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
- Anti-Semite and Jew by Jean-Paul Sartre (essay)
- Concerning The Jews by Mark Twain (essay)
- Torah From Heaven: The Reconstruction of Faith by Norman Solomon
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