Don't Know Much About with Naya Lekht
Don't Know Much About is a podcast hosted by Dr. Naya Lekht, a scholar and educator with a PhD from UCLA in Russian Literature. Each episode unpacks a contentious topic — from antizionism and Soviet history to Jewish identity and contemporary geopolitics — through rigorous research, personal stories, and candid conversations with leading thinkers. Clarifying the complex, one conversation at a time.
Don't Know Much About with Naya Lekht
Armed and Jewish: The Case forJewish Gun Ownership
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On this episode of Don’t Know Much About, Dr. Naya Lekht sits down with Adam L. Fuller, Professor of Political Science at Youngstown State University, to discuss his new book, "The Armed Jew: The Case for Jewish Gun Ownership." While the title might sound like a call for Jews to take up arms, the book is, in fact, a compelling exploration of how a people long defined as “the people of the book” may also need to see themselves as “the people of the sword.”
Naya opens the conversation with a challenge: “How exactly will Jews 'shoot' their way out of the problem of antizionism that now dominates the Ivy Leagues, the United Nations, and the media? Surely gun ownership alone won’t solve the problem of a narrative war, one fueled by a masterful disinformation campaign designed to push Jews out of spaces that matter.
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