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American Prestige

Special - What Was Sarah Hurwitz Thinking? w/ Emily Tamkin (Preview)

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Subscribe now to listen to the full episode. Danny and Derek are joined by the writer ⁠Emily Tamkin⁠ to discuss Sarah Hurwitz’s comments on the Holocaust, education, and the Jewish people.

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0:00.0

Hello American Prestige listeners. It's Derek. I am joined, as always, by my friend and comrade, Danny Vestner, and we are very pleased to welcome back to the program.

0:21.8

Grateful for her doing it on short notice. Emily Tamkin, Emily is a journalist and author in Washington, D.C.

0:27.8

She's written for more places than I could. If you've probably read some of the places she's been published at,

0:33.4

Boston Globe, Washington Post, Politico, New Republic. I won't go through all of them. But she

0:39.7

has written two books, The Influence of Soros, Politics, Power, and the Struggle for an Open

0:44.9

Society in 2020, and Bad Jews, a History of American Jewish Politics and Identities in

0:51.0

2022. She is also a repeat guest. She has a substack, E.T. Right Home. We'll put a link to that in

0:56.2

the show description. Emily, thank you so much for coming back to the show. Thank you so much for

1:00.4

having me back. The pleasure to have you. I wish we were talking about something else, but we are

1:05.0

going to be talking about the Sarah Hurwitz clips that have been circulating online, and just to get your take on this stuff,

1:14.6

and I really wanted to do this,

1:15.9

and I'm going to lead it off,

1:17.0

because as the Gentile member of this podcast,

1:21.6

I'm the outsider here.

1:23.7

But we're going to play these two clips,

1:26.2

and then I want to get your take on them.

1:30.4

The first is from this session that she attended at the Jewish Federations of North America

1:38.3

General Assembly in Washington.

1:41.8

And the second is from a podcast that she was on kind of responding to that. So

1:47.6

let's play the clips and then we can talk about them. I think that since October 7th, but really

1:54.6

before then, there have been huge shifts in America on how people think about Jews and Israel.

2:00.3

And I think that is especially true of young people.

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