About this episode

Bridget Phetasy interviews Batya Ungar-Sargon about her book on American Jewish history and the political shifts affecting the Jewish community.

Bridget sits down with Batya Ungar-Sargon — journalist, author, and deputy opinion editor at Newsweek — for a wide-ranging conversation about her new book, The Jews and The Left, about American Jewish history and the political realignment happening in real time. They dig into how Jews became so deeply identified with the Democratic Party, why October 7th forced a reckoning for secular Jews who had barely thought about their identity in decades, and what it means that the loudest antisemitism ...

People in this episode

Host: Bridget Phetasy

Guest: Batya Ungar-Sargon

Topics covered

• American Jewish history
• political realignment
• antisemitism
• Democratic Party
• identity

Keywords

• Jews
• Left
• politics
• antisemitism
• identity
• Democratic Party
• Batya Ungar-Sargon

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Newsweek

Books & works: The Jews and The Left

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