
Insights from recent episode analysis
Audience Interest
Podcast Focus
Publishing Consistency
Platform Reach
Insights are generated by CastFox AI using publicly available data, episode content, and proprietary models.
Most discussed topics
Brands & references
Est. Listeners
Insufficient chart data. Estimates will improve as the show charts.
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
N/A🎙 Daily cadence·1,000 episodes·Last published 5d ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
N/A - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
N/A
Market Insights
Platform Distribution
Reach across major podcast platforms, updated hourly
Total Followers
—
Total Plays
—
Total Reviews
—
* Data sourced directly from platform APIs and aggregated hourly across all major podcast directories.
On the show
From 17 epsHosts
Recent guests
Recent episodes
Peter Paul Dobek, "The Public House in Central Europe: Inns, Tavern, and Alehouses in Cracow during the Jagiellonian Dynasty" (Lexington Books, 2024)
Jun 20, 2026
56m 49s
Anna Calori, "Engineering Global Socialism: Ownership, Non-Alignment, and Corporate Culture in a Bosnian Company" (Indiana UP, 2026)
Jun 19, 2026
48m 46s
European Jews in the 21st Century
Jun 18, 2026
Unknown duration
Cristina Florea, "Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jun 16, 2026
1h 33m 37s
Jewish Identity in Lithuania Today
Jun 16, 2026
Unknown duration
Social Links & Contact
Official channels & resources
Official Website
Login
RSS Feed
Login
| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/20/26 | ![]() Peter Paul Dobek, "The Public House in Central Europe: Inns, Tavern, and Alehouses in Cracow during the Jagiellonian Dynasty" (Lexington Books, 2024) | In his new book The Public House in Central Europe: Inns, Tavern, and Alehouses in Cracow during the Jagiellonian Dynasty (Lexington Books, 2024), Peter Dobek takes us into the daily life of the medieval tavern in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Cracow. This is the ‘Golden Age’ of Poland Lithuania and the crepuscule between the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. The taverns were the public space where different categories of people mixed: travelers, merchants, diplomats, clerics, prostitutes, gamblers, and rogues. This book a time machine: Dobek writes social history as attentive and detailed narrative. We learn about the economy of the petty entrepreneur, the special roles of Jews in medieval Poland, the gray areas where prostitution and gambling thrived. Dobek’s prose is lively, his research impressive, and his conclusions important. Peter Dobek is a scholar of medieval Europe particularly medieval Poland with a focus on public houses (inns, taverns, and ale houses). He received his PhD from Western Michigan University in 2019. In addition to other publications, his book is the Public House in Central Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies | 56m 49s | ||||||
| 6/19/26 | ![]() Anna Calori, "Engineering Global Socialism: Ownership, Non-Alignment, and Corporate Culture in a Bosnian Company" (Indiana UP, 2026) | Engineering Global Socialism: Ownership, Non-Alignment, and Corporate Culture in a Bosnian Company (Indiana UP, 2026) chronicles the journey of the Bosnian global corporation Energoinvest and its workers from its Yugoslav socialist ideals through decades of dissolution, reconstruction, and post-socialist transformation. Author Anna Calori provides a company-centric window into the business history of socialist globalization during periods of national development, destruction, and rebuilding. Contrary to popular perceptions of "centralized" socialist states, Energoinvest actively shaped trade relations with the Global South, driven by a socialist corporate culture that encouraged competition as well as collective decision-making. Even after Yugoslavia's disintegration in 1992 ended its dreams of a socialist path to globalization, these core characteristics shaped Energoinvest's adaptation to capitalist transformations and made it a key player in the struggle for Bosnia's post-war economic reconstruction. Through oral histories and archival research, Calori reveals how Energoinvest's workers paired the promise of a new model of global integration with their own visions of a working world in which they set the rules of engagement—and how, upon its sale to mostly foreign owners, the marginalization and ethnic homogenization of employee shareholders mirrored changes around citizenship in Bosnia. Now, in the twenty-first century, Energoinvest offers new promises of a post-industrial future, but its often hazy parameters leave workers to rely on the memory of "what could have been" to make sense of change. Tracing the long trajectory of a Yugoslav enterprise through decades of large-scale social change, Engineering Global Socialism presents a historical and sociological moment in which workers' ideas about social and corporate enterprise offered the possibility of a more democratic path to globalization. Anna Calori is Lecturer in Contemporary Economic History at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. Filippo De Chirico is a Ph.D. Candidate in Energy History at Roma Tre University. His research focuses on the history of the Italian natural gas sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies | 48m 46s | ||||||
| 6/18/26 | ![]() European Jews in the 21st Century | What is the status of Jews in Europe in the 21st century? How do they maintain vital communities? Do they desire to remain in Europe? To remain Jewish? Where are the trendlines headed? A mere 0.1% of Europe's population is Jewish. Proportionally, this figure is at its lowest since the turn of the first millennium. European Jews' numbers have continued to decline even after the Holocaust. Once a major center of world Jewry, Europe often goes largely unmentioned in conversations about the global Jewish community. K., the European Jewish Review, is a new magazine founded in March 2021 to document and analyze the current situation of the 1.3 million Jews living in Europe. The magazine is devoted to reporting from and fostering dialogue across all the various communities of European Jewry. Daniel Solomon, the English-language editor of K. will lead a discussion with members of the editorial board of K.: Stéphane Bou (Editor of chief of K., European Jewish Review), Macha Fogel (Author at K., European Jewish Review), and Danny Trom (Senior Researcher, EHESS). This panel discussion originally took place on October 12, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies | — | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | ![]() Cristina Florea, "Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland" (Princeton UP, 2025) | Bukovina, when it has existed on official maps, has always fit uneasily among its neighbors. The region is now divided between Romania and Ukraine but has long been a testing ground for successive regimes, including the Habsburg Empire, independent and later Nazi-allied Romania, and the Soviet Union, as each sought to reshape the region in its own image. In this beautifully written and wide-ranging book B ukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland (Princeton UP, 2025), Cristina Florea traces the history of Bukovina, showing how this borderland, the onetime buffer between Christendom and Islam, found itself at the forefront of modern state-building and governance projects that eventually extended throughout the rest of Europe. Encounters that play out in borderlands have proved crucial to the development of modern state ambitions and governance practices.Drawing on a wide range of archives and published sources in Russian, Ukrainian, German, Romanian, French, and Yiddish, Florea integrates stories of ethnic and linguistic groups—rural Ukrainians, Romanians, and Germans, and urban German-speaking Jews and Poles—who lived side by side in Bukovina, all of them navigating constant reconfiguration and reinvention. Challenging traditional chronologies in European history, she shows that different transformations in the region occurred at different tempos, creating a historical palimpsest and a sense among locals that they had lived many lives.A two-hundred-year history of a region shaped by the conflicting pulls of imperial legacies and national ambitions, Bukovina reveals the paradoxes of modern history found in a microcosm of Eastern Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies | 1h 33m 37s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | ![]() Jewish Identity in Lithuania Today | Join YIVO for a conversation about the resurgence of interest in Jewish identity and history in Lithuania today. Jonathan Brent will moderate a conversation among Miglė Anušauskaitė, a Lithuanian cartoonist and archivist working on the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project, Anna Avidan, Managing Director of LitvakWorld, Kęstas Pikūnas, publisher of Passport, and former Lithuanian Minister of Culture, Mindaugas Kvietkauskas. Together they will explore topics such as the historical and social realities of Jewish-Lithuanian relations, and the challenges of building a multi-cultural, democratic society in Lithuania today. This panel originally took place on December 7, 2021 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies | — | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | ![]() Tania Sengupta and Stuart King eds., "Reclaiming Colonial Architecture" (Routledge, 2024)✨ | colonial architectureheritage+3 | Tania SenguptaStuart King | RoutledgeSAHGB+2 | — | colonial architectureheritage practitioners+3 | — | 56m 19s | |
| 5/31/26 | ![]() David Petruccelli, "A Scourge of Humanity: The Origins of Interpol and the End of Empire in Central and Eastern Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)✨ | historyinternational crime+5 | David Petruccelli | InterpolOxford University Press | Central and Eastern EuropeHabsburg+2 | Interpolinternational crime+6 | — | 1h 03m 07s | |
| 5/29/26 | ![]() Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski✨ | Yiddish ethnographySh. An-ski+5 | — | The Dybbuk | Ukraine | Yiddishethnography+8 | — | — | |
| 5/22/26 | ![]() Ruth Balint, "Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe" (Cornell UP, 2021)✨ | displaced personspostwar Europe+4 | Ruth Balint | Cornell University PressDestination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe | — | displacementrefugees+8 | — | 54m 11s | |
| 5/19/26 | ![]() "My Heart is in the East": How Yiddish Speakers Moved to the East✨ | Yiddish-speaking JewsEastern Europe+4 | — | New Books Network | Czech RepublicSlovakia+2 | YiddishJewish history+7 | — | — | |
Want analysis for the episodes below?Free for Pro Submit a request, we'll have your selected episodes analyzed within an hour. Free, at no cost to you, for Pro users. | |||||||||
| 5/18/26 | ![]() In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust✨ | pogromsHolocaust+3 | Jeffrey Veidlinger | In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust | Ukraine | pogromsHolocaust+5 | — | — | |
| 5/8/26 | ![]() Radio ReOrient S14:6: The Road to Sarajevo, with Haris Tagari, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan✨ | Islamic historygenocide+4 | Haris Tagari | University of LancasterInstagram | SarajevoBosnia+1 | SarajevoIslamic history+6 | — | 1h 03m 19s | |
| 5/4/26 | ![]() Szabolcs László, "Cold War Brokers: Hungarian-American Cultural Exchanges and Transnational Mobility,1956-1989" (Bloomsbury, 2026)✨ | Cold WarCultural Exchanges+3 | Szabolcs László | BloomsburyCEU Review of Books Podcast+2 | — | Cold WarHungarian-American+3 | — | 56m 50s | |
| 4/28/26 | ![]() Francisco Martínez, "The Future of Hiding: Secrecy, Infrastructure, and Ecological Memory in Estonia's Siberia" (Cornell UP, 2025)✨ | secrecyinfrastructure+5 | Francisco Martínez | Cornell UP | EstoniaSiberia+1 | secrecyinfrastructure+8 | — | 54m 53s | |
| 4/26/26 | ![]() Gennady Estraikh, "The History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia" (Bloombury, 2023)✨ | Soviet historyJewish history+4 | Dr. Gennady Estraikh | Bloomsbury AcademicThe History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia | BirobidzhanSiberia+1 | BirobidzhanSoviet Jewish homeland+5 | — | 1h 00m 08s | |
| 4/21/26 | ![]() Stephen F. Jones, "The First Social Democracy: The Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918–1921" (Harvard UP, 2026)✨ | social democracyGeorgia+4 | Stephen F. Jones | Harvard University Press | GeorgiaRussian Empire+3 | social democracyGeorgia+5 | — | 1h 05m 19s | |
| 4/20/26 | ![]() Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union" (Stanford UP, 2026)✨ | HolocaustJewish literature+3 | Sasha SenderovichHarriet Murav | Stanford University PressIn the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union | UkraineLithuania+2 | HolocaustJewish writers+3 | — | 1h 02m 09s | |
| 4/19/26 | ![]() Karolina Przewrocka-Aderet, "Polanim: From Poland to Israel" (Academic Studies Press, 2026)✨ | migrationJewish identity+4 | Katarzyna Przewrocka-Aderet | Polanim: From Poland to Israel | PolandIsrael | migrationJewish history+6 | — | 51m 02s | |
| 4/19/26 | ![]() Kristan Stoddart, "Russia's Hybrid Warfare Offensive Against the West" (de Gruyter, 2025)✨ | Russian hybrid warfarecyberespionage+4 | Kristan Stoddart | Swansea UniversityAberystwyth University+4 | — | hybrid warfarecybersecurity+6 | — | 1h 20m 59s | |
| 4/19/26 | ![]() From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony✨ | HolocaustYiddish literature+4 | Justin CammyJonathan Brent | YIVOFrom the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony | MoscowVilna Ghetto+1 | Avrom SutzkeverYiddish poet+4 | — | 59m 34s | |
| 4/12/26 | ![]() Katharina Wiedlack, "Under Western Eyes: Vulnerable Minorities and the Russian State in New Cold War Cultures" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)✨ | New Cold WarLGBTIQ+ topics+5 | Katharina Wiedlack | Academic Studies PressUnder Western Eyes: Vulnerable Minorities and the Russian State in New Cold War Cultures | — | New Cold WarLGBTIQ++7 | — | 40m 39s | |
| 4/10/26 | ![]() Avrom Sutzkever: Ten Poems✨ | Yiddish poetryJewish history+4 | Mindaugas KvietkauskasLara Lempertienė+1 | Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaYIVO+1 | — | Avrom SutzkeverYiddish+5 | — | 1h 14m 43s | |
| 4/6/26 | ![]() Scott M. Kenworthy, "The People's Patriarch: Tikhon Bellavin and the Orthodox Church in North America and Revolutionary Russia" (Oxford UP, 2026) | On October 28, 1917, just days after the Bolsheviks seized power, the great Council of the Russian Orthodox Church voted to restore the patriarchate, which had been abolished by Peter the Great two centuries earlier. The Council chose Tikhon (Bellavin), the son of a humble village parish priest, to be head of Russia's largest religious confession. At the time, the majority of Orthodox Christians were devoutly religious. Tikhon's vision of the Church, which he began putting into practice during his years as the Orthodox bishop of North America (1898-1907), was that of an organic body which welcomed the participation of all believers. The Bolsheviks had other ideas. They aimed to create a revolution that would be carried out by the state on behalf of the people. And they sought to eradicate religion as "superstition" and not only to disestablish the Church, but to destroy it altogether. Although the alternate Russia which Tikhon represented would be crushed by the superior force of the Bolsheviks, he helped navigate the Church through immense challenges so that, in the end, the Orthodox Church outlived the Soviet experiment. The People's Patriarch tells the story of the clash of visions for the new Russia in 1917 through the lens of the humble man chosen to lead the Church, whose life exemplifies the transformations within the Orthodox Church in late Imperial Russia and its fate during the Revolution. The People's Patriarch is the first critical biography of one of the twentieth century's most important Orthodox Christian leaders, based on an exhaustive use of previously untapped primary sources, including Tikhon's letters and encyclicals, previously classified documents from the top Bolshevik leadership and Soviet secret police, and materials from a dozen archives in five countries. Scott M. Kenworthy is Professor in the History Department at Miami University (Ohio), where he also teaches for the Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and Religious Studies programs. Roland Clark is a Professor of Modern European History at the University of Liverpool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies | 1h 23m 00s | ||||||
| 4/2/26 | ![]() Rethinking Kishinev: How a Riot Changed 20th Century Jewish History | Kishinev's 1903 pogrom was the first event in Russian Jewish life to receive international attention. The riot, leaving 49 dead in an obscure border town, dominated the headlines of the western press for weeks, intruded on US-Russian relations, and impacted an astonishing array of institutions: the nascent Jewish army in Palestine, the NAACP, and most likely the first version of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Why did it have such impact, and why did it become a prism through which Russian Jewish history has been defined? This keynote address originally took place on January 6, 2014. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies | 1h 16m 11s | ||||||
| 3/24/26 | ![]() Jonathan Blackwood and Jasmina Tumbas, "Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space" (Routledge, 2025) | Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space explores the production, discussion, and consumption of contemporary art across the post-Yugoslav region. Bringing together 16 original contributions, the work explores how and why contemporary art discourses have continued to navigate the chronic difficulties facing local cultural economies since the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia's common federal space. Framed by the concept of hauntology, the contributors foreground various "ghosts" of the Yugoslav past — from its anti-fascist and non-alignment legacies, to histories of queer and feminist movements and artistic activism — as a lens for examining the present state of affairs both regionally and globally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies | 1h 20m 49s | ||||||
Showing 25 of 936
Pitch Fit is a Pro feature
See how bookable this show is for guests, which brands already advertise, the per-episode ad value, and the best-fit guest and sponsor profile. The numbers are blurred on the free plan.
How readily this show books outside guests like you.
How proven this show is for host-read sponsorships.
For Guests
ProFor Advertisers
ProUpgrade to Pro to unlock guest cadence, sponsor categories, fit scores, and per-episode ad value for this show.

