{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"James Traub: On Judah Benjamin","description":"Shmuel Rosner and James Traub discuss his book: &quot;Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy (Jewish Lives).&quot; &amp;nbsp; James Traub&amp;nbsp;(born 1954) is an American journalist. He is a contributing writer for&amp;nbsp;The New York Times Magazine, where he has worked since 1998. From 1994 to 1997, he was a staff writer for&amp;nbsp;The New Yorker.[&amp;nbsp;He has also written for&amp;nbsp;The New York Review of Books,&amp;nbsp;The Atlantic Monthly,&amp;nbsp;National Review&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Foreign Affairs. He is a senior fellow at the&amp;nbsp;Center on International Cooperation&amp;nbsp;at&amp;nbsp;New York University&amp;nbsp;and also teaches at the university. &amp;nbsp; Follow Shmuel Rosner on Twitter. ","author_name":"Rosner's Domain","author_url":"http:\/\/rosnersdomain.libsyn.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/20740475\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/112890560"}