Dovid Katz is a brilliant historian. He preserves and communicates the Jewish experience of Christian Europe, the Muslim world, and America. Learn about your world from the perspective of a people who are immersed in, yet distinct from dominant cultures. (It would be great if someone provided translations of the most common Yiddish words Rabbi Katz uses: mamesh, goy, sefer, klal, yiddishkite, etc.)

Great podcast

Great classes and very interesting! Wonderful to hear the Torah and professionals view all in one!

His knowledge is wider than Peter Griffin.

Good interesting, meaningful & mostly relevant stuff & Issues!

G o o d

I love these podcasts

A man who’s humility can be felt and his scholarly knowledge can be understood by all. A true giant! Rabbi Dr. Katz’s Podcast is the best podcast you’ll ever hear on Jewish history. Period end of story.

Rabbi Katz is a great historian and rabbi keep it up 👍👍🙂

Just a rambling lecture that paints historical events in an oversimplified and subjective light.

Rabbi Katz is simply the best Jewish History speaker today. His breadth, depth, illustrative examples, and insights are unmatched. Can you really say you understand Jewish history if you haven’t heard Rabbi Katz? I had the good fortune of learning Jewish History under Rabbi Katz in high school, and was floored by our luck at having a world class lecturer coming every week to our class of 15 students to teach us about Tanach. I am very pleased to be able to continue hearing his message several times weekly, and I am pleased it is being shared with an even broader audience thanks to the Podcast medium.

Thanks so much for the beautiful lectures, May God bless you!!

Thank you Rabbi Katz. A true academic with a yeshivishe taam!

I can sit for hours on end listening to R’ Katz’s Shiurim. They are informative and so interesting. R’ Katz has the ability to teach Jewish history from hundreds of years ago in a way that we in 2022 can understand it, and relate to it. The way he puts the whole story together is unreal.

Thank you for this series. I learn so much from your classes.

Thank You for your guidance.

Every episode is golden. Especially the weekly history profiles -- I've listened to some multiple times over. The parsha and haftora episodes are so-so, but no worries just skip them. My only, very minor, gripe is I wish Rabbi Katz would share his historical sources so the listener can go read more if they are interested.

I love Jewish history

The Rabbi has a tremendous breadth of both Torah and History and he is interesting to listen to!!!

I am always amazed by the broad knowledge of history which Rabbi Katz shares with us. He has unique knowledge and a unique way of conveying it to his listeners.

Rabbi Dr. Katz has the unique ability to combine his deep scholarship, religious inspiration, and historical fascination with a style that pulls in the listener through his presentation. His humor, wit, and anecdotes are worth the price alone (in terms of time commitment - the podcasts are free) and his knowledge and understanding of the issues rivals that of any graduate-level Jewish studies course I’ve taken at Yeshiva University. This is a podcast that anyone at any level of education can access and enjoy. I recommend this podcast to people regularly, and can’t promote it highly enough here.

But needs to improve his vocabulary. I suspect he’s dumbing down

Rabbi Dr Katz is a real treasure. Even his שיחת חולין is worthy of study! Even if I may disagree with an approach of Rabbi Katz, he certainly gives you a way to see an issue from a different צד. It’s amazing that one person knows so much! Highly recommended!

Thank you for enlightening so many people!

Absolutely incredible, his eye to detail and perspective is unmatched. My wife complains I listen too much.

One of the smartest historians of the era. Rabbi Katz could make a podcast on literally any historical topic.

Shows are frequently unprepared ramblings on topics that he is not an expert on.

The Rabbi Doctor transforms Jewish History from boring to vibrant!

I love the fact that the rabbi gives background it helps to get a more complete picture

You will learn about stuff you never learned in Yeshiva.

A wonderful podcast. Not that Rabbi Katz needs approbation, he is a brilliant and engaging scholar. In today’s podcast he says in passing that “Lakewood Rabbonim were מתיר minyanim again”. I object to the implication that there was a “heter” to minyanim across the board. The rabbonim allowed “porch” minyanim under very specific circumstances (each person only on their own porch) supposedly with approval from the local government. You are free of course to judge the motivation or rectitude of that decision, but my understanding is that this was done to avoid a worse reality of misguided people completely flaunting the rules and making dangerous minyanim. Rabbi Katz probably did not intend to flippantly put down other Rabbonim without first-hand knowledge, or to spread misinformation, so I respectfully ask that the comment be qualified appropriately.

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Rabbi Katz has an amazing and refreshing style of talking. I’m simply hooked!!

I’ve tried many different historians on YouTube and on podcast and Rabbi Katz is by far the best. He’s very knowledgeable, interesting, and well versed in all types of sources. I found this recently and I’m going through all the older podcasts. I don’t know what I’ll do when I catch up. It’s a pleasure to listen to him.

He really knows his stuff

I learned in yeshivos and live history as well and I have not yet heard any one who can bring those two worlds together than rabbi Katz! Rabbi, you are one of a kind!

I have been binge listening to these for weeks. They are incredible. When Rabbi Katz talks it almost sounds like he was there himself. Incredible content and gives you a real background to the events of history.

Useful information and point of view for anyone with even a passing interest in Jewish history.

Just discovered Rabbi Katz’s lectures on podcast. A pleasure to listen to!!!!

I always am looking forward to the release of your podcasts. Your knowledge and insight is fascinating . Thank you for sharing .

Is there not another "episode" of Shatai Tzvi? If so, please post!!

If you're looking to learn about Jewish history, Rabbi Katz' podcast is the place to do it....the man is an encyclopedia! His fascinating and unique insights into history are relevant today.

Aside from Eli Neuberger the thing I really miss about leaving Baltimore is Rabbi Katz’s shiurim. One of the best around! And now on iTunes? Great!!!

Rabbi Katz is an absolutely brilliant historian and scholar, not to mention an engaging and entertaining lecturer. This is a great day for iTunes. So excited that his lectures will finally be available in this format!