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“We Are All Still Living October 7th” from 2023-12-11T14:48
Amir Tibon, diplomatic correspondent for Haaretz newspaper and a resident of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, survived the October 7th massacre with his wife and young daughters. He talks about his harrowing s...
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Before and After 1948: Gaza, a Prehistory from 2023-12-04T12:00
Dr. Dotan Halevy, environmental and social historian of the late Ottoman Empire and the Modern Middle East at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, discusses the history of Gaza from the mid-19th ce...
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“Hamas Is Not Going Anywhere” from 2023-11-13T12:13
Dr Michael Milstein, head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University’s Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and the former Head of the Palestinian Department fo...
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Hope. Yes, Hope from 2023-11-06T10:50
Dr Oded Adomi Leshem (rethink-hope.com), political psychologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses...
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Jerusalem as a Contested City: Role Model or Cautionary Tale? from 2023-09-04T06:56
Dr Marik Shtern, political geographer and a research fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Policy research, discusses his co-authored paper “Shared Spaces in Contested Cities: A Model for Analys...
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Land and Power: Understanding How the Politics of Space Shape Our Lives from 2023-08-28T17:57
Professor Oren Yiftachel discusses more than a decade of his scholarship on colonial regimes, identities and futures in Israel and Palestine through the lens of geography and urban planning.
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Intractable Conflicts: Between Temptation and Resistance from 2023-08-21T05:00
Daniel Bar-Tal, professor (emeritus) of social psychology at Tel Aviv University, discusses his new book, Listen
Meet Jerusalem’s Top Catholic Monk from 2023-08-14T16:32
Abbot Nikodemus Schnabel, the head of Jerusalem’s Dormition Abbey, in conversation about Christian life in Israel (including of thousands of migrant workers), the nature of interfaith dialogue a...
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Detente? Christian-Jewish Relations in the Postwar Era from 2023-08-07T09:35
Dr Karma Ben-Johanan, religion scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in modern Christianity and Jewish-Christian relations, discusses her new book Jacob's Younger Broth...
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What Do Israeli Haredim Really Care About? from 2023-07-31T04:47
Dr Nechumi Yaffe of Tel Aviv University’s School of Social and Policy Studies, the first ultra-Orthodox woman to serve as a faculty member in an Israeli university, discusses her research on ult...
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The Forces of Nature from 2023-07-24T04:53
Revolution and National Liberation from 2023-07-17T10:21
Tamir Sorek, professor of history at Penn State University specializing in Palestinian politics and culture in the State of Israel, discusses his book Listen
Withdrawal: The Continuation of Occupation by Other Means? from 2023-07-10T17:48
Dr Rob Geist Pinfold, a lecturer at Durham University’s School of Government and International Affairs, discusses his book Understanding Territorial Withdrawals: Israeli Occupations and Exit...
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Man of the Night from 2023-07-03T16:41
Joseph Berger, formerly a New York Times journalist, discusses his book Listen
This Is Israel from 2023-06-26T04:49
Isabel Kershner, Israel reporter for the New York Times, discusses her new book Listen
Arabs, Israelis or Palestinians? from 2023-06-19T14:02
The Arab community in Israel is at a crossroads: the most right-wing government in the country’s history, and its plan for a judicial overhaul, casts doubt on the fragile relations between the s...
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The Other ‘National Home’ from 2023-06-12T08:55
Lerna Ekmekcioglu, Professor of History and Gender Studies at MIT, specializing in Turkish and Armenian history, discusses Armenian demands for a “national home” in the newly founded Turkish Rep...
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The Poetics of the Political, the Politics of the Poetic from 2023-06-05T17:10
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Professor (Emerita) of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses her book Listen
Haredim in Israel: Success, but at What Cost? from 2023-05-29T12:38
Kimmy Caplan, Professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University, discusses his co-edited book Listen
An Israeli’s Home Is His Fortress from 2023-05-22T06:04
Hagar Kotef, Professor of Political Theory at SOAS, University of London, discusses her book <...
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Where Do We Go From Here? from 2023-05-15T09:12
Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator for the Financial Times, discusses his new book Listen
Coalonialism (Rerun) from 2023-05-01T05:54
Prof. On Barak of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University discusses his book, Listen
The Commodification of Citizenship from 2023-04-24T07:43
Dr Yossi Harpaz, sociologist at Tel Aviv University, discusses his book Listen
The Non-zionist Zionist from 2023-04-17T11:41
Jonathan Graubart, professor of political science at San Diego State University, discusses his book Listen
Emotional Zionists from 2023-04-03T11:25
Derek Penslar, professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, discusses his forthcoming book Listen
Judaism and Liberalism: Brothers From Another Mother from 2023-03-27T09:45
Dr Shivi Greenfield, political theorist and Deputy Director General for Strategy and Planning, discusses his book Listen
From the Sea They Came: Migration, Humanity and International Law from 2023-03-20T11:03
Itamar Mann, Professor of Law at the University of Haifa, specializing, among other things, in international law and legal theory, discusses his book Listen
Safed: A Reality and a Metaphor from 2023-03-13T12:42
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Professor of Jewish History at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, specializing in religious and political thought in early modern and contemporary Judaism, discusses h...
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Public Enemy No. 1 from 2023-03-06T15:48
Yuli Novak, the former director of Breaking the Silence, the IDF veterans’ organization, reflects in her new memoir, Listen
The “History Will Judge Us” Edition from 2023-02-27T13:34
In this first-in-all-of-human-history, cross-over edition of TLV1’s Tel Aviv Review and TLV1’s The Promised Podcast, we discuss the open letter of more than 160 renowned historians of Jews, Juda...
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Hitler’s Willing Profiteers from 2023-02-20T12:00
David de Jong, a Tel Aviv-based journalist for the Dutch Financial Daily, discusses his book Listen
Our Republic: Ben Gurion's Constitutional Vision from 2023-02-13T10:04
Prof. Nir Keidar, legal historian and President of Sapir College, discusses his book Listen
Intifada 1.0 from 2023-02-06T12:13
Oren Kessler, journalist and author, discusses his new book “Palestine 1936: ...
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This Land Will Be Shared from 2023-01-30T16:54
Shuli Dichter, a veteran activist for a Jewish-Arab shared society in Israel, discusses his political memoir Listen
The Demjanjuk Affair: A Study in the Culture of Memory from 2023-01-23T12:47
Dr Tamir Hod, a historian at Tel Hai college, discusses his book Did We Remember to Forget?, a study into the Demjanjuk affair of the 1980s and 1990s – the trial and eventual acquittal of Ukrain...
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Battered but Not Broken: The Israel Democracy Index, 2022 from 2023-01-16T09:22
Tamar Hermann, professor of political science at the Open University and Senior Research Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, discusses the 20th edition of the annual Democracy Index, the m...
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The Samaritans: Then and Now from 2023-01-09T07:52
Steven Fine, professor of Jewish History and Director of the Center for Israel Studies at Yeshiva University in New York, discusses The Samaritans: A Biblical People, a documentary film...
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Back on the Horse from 2023-01-02T10:52
Dr. Gilad Malach, the director of the “Ultra-Orthodox in Israel” program at the Israel Democracy Institute, discusses the latest “Haredi Report”, published annually by the IDI. The ultra-Orthodo...
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Fair Play? from 2022-12-27T07:00
Dr Omer Einav, a historian at Hadassah Academic College, discusses his book Defending the Goal: Football and the relations between Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine, 1917-1948.
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Has Liberalism Run Its Course? from 2022-12-19T10:08
Yoram Hazony, President of the Herzl Institute and Chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, discusses his book Listen
Start the Revolution With Me from 2022-12-12T08:22
Rachel Azaria, CEO of Darkenu, the largest civil society organization in Israel, a veteran public campaigner and former politician (Member of Knesset, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem), discusses her b...
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Mizrahi Jews and Palestinian Arabs: A Bilateral Triangle? from 2022-12-05T10:05
Prof. Hillel Cohen, historian of the Middle East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses his new book Listen
The Birth of a Nation: The Diplomatic Backstory of Israel’s Establishment from 2022-11-28T08:05
Jeffrey Herf, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Maryland, discusses his new book Listen
Tantura: The Massacre That Was from 2022-11-21T10:15
Filmmaker Alon Schwarz discusses his new documentary Tantura, which reopens an ...
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Night Comes On: Ottoman Cities After Dark from 2022-11-14T09:36
Avner Wishnitzer, professor of Ottoman history at Tel Aviv University, discusses his book Listen
Not an Oxymoron: Secular Believers in Israel from 2022-11-07T08:29:05
Hagar Lahav, professor of communication at Sapir Academic College, discusses her book Listen
Groundhog Election Day? Analyzing the Deep Trends of Israeli Politics from 2022-10-31T04:00
Gideon Rahat, professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses the insights that emanate from The Elections in Israel 2019-2021, a book he co-edited with ...
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Mutual Exclusion: The Plight and Hope of a Left-Wing Religious Zionist from 2022-10-24T11:44:42
Mikhael Manekin, a prominent Israeli activist (former director of Breaking the Silence and Molad) discusses his new book, A Dawn of Redemption, an attempt to address the ostensible cont...
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Civil Society in an Islamic State: The Case of Charity in Saudi Arabia from 2022-10-17T09:52:13
Dr. Nora Derbal, an Islamic Studies scholar and a Martin Buber Society Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerus...
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The State of Religion and State from 2022-09-19T05:00
Shlomit Ravitsky-Tur Paz, head of the program on Religion, Nation and State and the director of the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Center for Shared Society at the Israel Democracy Institute, discusses s...
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High and Holy from 2022-09-12T09:01:32
Haggai Ram, professor of Middle East History at Ben Gurion University, discusses his book Into...
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Re-Humanizing the Victims of the Nakba from 2022-09-05T07:41:30
Adam Raz, historian at Tel Aviv University and Akevot – the Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research, has written several history books. His most recent work is a stage play – his fir...
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“Coalonialism” from 2022-08-29T07:07:29
Prof. On Barak of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University discusses his book, Listen
Multi-Layered Palestinian Presence from 2022-08-22T12:14:15
Dr Andreas Hackl, anthropologist at the University of Edinburgh, discusses his new book, <...
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Ottoman Jews, Ottoman Palestinians from 2022-08-15T09:58:17
Dr Louis Fishman, historian of modern Turkey and Israel/Palestine, discusses his book Listen
The Comedy Network from 2022-08-08T05:00
Matt Sienkiewicz, Professor of Communication and International Studies at Boston College, discusses his new co-authored book That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them, ...
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The Left Behind from 2022-08-01T05:00:57
Avi Dabush, veteran social activist, Meretz politician and author of the new semi-autobiographical book The Periphery Rebellion: The Guide to a Much-Needed Revolution in Israeli Society...
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Out of Africa from 2022-07-25T09:51:07
Dr. Naomi Shmuel, author and anthropologist, from the department of Folklore at the Hebrew University, discusses her book Generations of Hope: Traditions and Intergenerational Transferal wit...
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Building on Shared Experiences: The Konrad Adenauer Foundation Marks 40 Years in Israel from 2022-07-18T10:45:58
Prof. Norbert Lammert, the chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and former President of the German Bundestag, joins us in Tel Aviv for a conversation about the challenges of the liberal an...
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The New Sepharad: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Salonica (Rerun) from 2022-07-11T14:07:28
Jewish history professor Aron Rodrigue of Stanford University was the keynote speaker at an international conference held this week at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, dedicated to the Jewish h...
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The Holocaust on the Outskirts from 2022-05-16T08:35:17
Jan Grabowski, Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, discusses his new book (co-edited with Barbara Engelking) Listen
Could It Happen To Us? (Rerun) from 2022-04-18T11:14:45
In her bestselling Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, acclaimed journalist and historian Anne Applebaum examines how a wave of nationalist populism swept thr...
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The History, Memory And Myth Of The Kishinev Pogrom (Rerun) from 2022-04-11T05:00
The Kishinev Pogrom of 1903 was among the seminal events of modern Jewish history. The violence was memorialized in ways that shaped Jewish identity, from the early Zionist national narrative to...
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My People, Our History (Rerun) from 2022-04-04T16:23:52
Rashid Khalidi, a leading historian of the Palestinian national movement, weaves his family history into a century of the Palestinian national struggle against Israel and international forces se...
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The Right Stuff: When Israel Knew How to Compromise (Rerun) from 2022-03-28T16:08:32
Two of the most prominent figures in America's efforts to advance a two-state solution, Ambassador Dennis Ross and David Makovsky, take a deep look at four Israeli leaders and their pivotal deci...
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Bret Stephens on the State of America and the State of Israel (Rerun) from 2022-03-21T11:08:07
Bret Stephens, the prominent New York Times columnist joined the Tel Aviv Review at the Z3 conference to discuss politics in the US and across the pond.
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Avishai Margalit on Betrayal (Rerun) from 2022-03-14T15:13:38
Avishai Margalit, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, as well as a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerus...
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Ben-Gurion: An Intimate Portrait (Rerun) from 2022-03-07T09:47:06
Historian and journalist Dr Tom Segev discusses his book, “A State at all Costs: The Life of David Ben-Gurion,” a biography of Israel's founding father that draws heavily on his newly declassifi...
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Creating Killers (Rerun) from 2022-02-28T11:28:02
One of the most controversial questions about the Holocaust is whether it should be seen as a universal human problem, or a unique horror perpetrated by Germans on Jews. At the heart of this que...
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Liberalism and Nationalism: Friends or Enemies? (Rerun) from 2022-02-21T07:37:20
“Liberal” and “nationalist” sound like mutually exclusive forces that cannot coexist. Yet Yuli Tamir, scholar, peace activist and a former government minister, makes the liberal case for nationa...
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Liberalism Is Dead. Long Live Liberalism (Rerun) from 2022-02-07T10:55:01
Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities at Columbia University, discusses his book The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics and offers insights into the past failures of progres...
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Who Lost Russia? (Rerun) from 2022-01-31T07:45:19
Who lost Russia? In The Future is History, acclaimed author Masha Gessen dove into the heart of the Soviet Union and came up with the root causes of Russia's trajectory in the decades a...
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Matthew Goodwin: Get to Know the New Nationalists (Rerun) from 2022-01-24T13:28:25
From Hungary to Brazil, to Italy, the UK and US a special style of nationalist politics seems to be taking over. But is the current wave of national-populism new, or rooted in older historic tre...
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The Erratic Pulse of Israeli Democracy from 2022-01-17T11:11:17
Professor Tamar Hermann of the Israel Democracy Institute and the Open University discusses fresh findings from the annual Israel Democracy Index of 2021, including low optimism for the general ...
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The Human Experience in Objects: The Case for Museums in the 21st Century (Rerun) from 2022-01-10T08:06:12
Neil McGregor, the former director of the British Museum, analyzes the enduring validity of museums in the age of technological upheavals and fake news. He recently visited Israel to deliver the...
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Red Is the New Green: Carbon Pricing in Israel from 2022-01-03T04:00
Nathan Sussman, Professor of Economics and Senior Visiting Research Fellow and leader of the “Israel 2050: Climate Crisis Preparedness” project at the Israel Democracy Institute, explains how ca...
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Level-Headed Men Seldom Make History (Rerun) from 2021-12-27T10:15:55
Derek Penslar, Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, discusses his book, Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader, an addition to more than 200 biographies of the founder of Z...
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Palestinian Refugees: The Third Rail of the Conflict (Rerun) from 2021-12-20T14:33:38
Former Member of Knesset Einat Wilf discusses her book War of Return, arguing that the conflict will never end until the world recognizes that Palestinian refugees, as they are usually ...
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Jewish Life in the Time of ‘Illiberal Democracy’ from 2021-12-13T13:52:40
Hungary’s Jewish community is the largest in central and eastern Europe, and its regime the most ‘advanced’ among its neighbors in undoing the tenets of liberal democracy. How does this affect t...
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Take Notice: The Power of the Unremarkable (Rerun) from 2021-12-06T14:30:07
Eviatar Zerubavel, professor of sociology at Rutgers University, discusses his new book Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable. How do our linguistic priorities cha...
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Bibi: The King is Alive, Long Live the King (Rerun) from 2021-11-29T09:12:02
Benjamin Netanyahu’s endurance as Prime Minister is matched only by his mystique: what lies behind his grip on Israeli society? How did he climb to the top, and what is the price of his long sta...
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Putting South Africa Together Again (And Surviving a Bomb) (Rerun) from 2021-11-22T12:50:07
After fighting apartheid for forty years and surviving a bomb attack in the process, in the early 1990s, Albie Sachs found himself helping to draft the constitution that would become the foundat...
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The Tel Aviv Review LIVE in New York: Timothy Snyder on Tyranny (Rerun) from 2021-11-15T17:16:14
Timothy Snyder discusses his book, “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.” History doesn’t repeat itself, but what can contemporary Americans learn from 20th-century Europe?
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Imagined Religion: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Judaism (Rerun) from 2021-11-08T09:36:06
In his book, “Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notions,” Daniel Boyarin argues that Judaism, as a full-blown concept, is a modern creation
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Oh Lordy: Reza Aslan on His ‘God: A Human History’ (Rerun) from 2021-11-01T17:23:03
Why do we believe? After writing books about the god of Islam and Jesus of Nazareth, religion scholar Reza Aslan takes on the biggest question of all: What does “God” mean, anyway? Aslan comes to t...
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Smashing the Patriarchy? from 2021-10-25T14:00:53
Amalia Sa’ar, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Haifa, discusses her co-authored book (together with Dr. Hawazin Younis) Listen
Love, Occupied from 2021-10-18T08:52:58
Sari Bashi’s life was already complicated, as a Jewish Israeli human rights lawyer defending Palestinian freedom of movement. Then she fell in love with a Palestinian man trapped in Ramallah by ...
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The Spoils of Empire from 2021-10-11T10:38:42
Dr Itay Lotem, Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Westminster, discusses his new book Listen
From Romania, For Cash from 2021-10-04T05:00
Dr Radu Ioanid, Romanian Ambassador to Israel and historian of Romanian Jewry, discusses his book Listen
What Would Susan Sontag Say? from 2021-09-27T05:00
Philosopher and cultural critic Susan Sontag spent a lifetime thinking about the mysterious space between reality and representation, becoming one of the most influential public intellectuals of...
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The Broke Woke from 2021-09-20T08:09:26
Batya Ungar-Sargon believes woke culture has created a smokescreen of racial identity politics that obfuscates the real force tearing American society apart: class inequality. But it took the li...
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Israel’s Ellis Island, Behind Barbed Wire from 2021-09-13T12:13:30
Quarantine wasn’t invented for corona. At the start of statehood, Israel encouraged mass immigration while seeking to prevent mass disease by putting immigrants through a quarantine camp called ...
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Labor’s Love’s Lost from 2021-09-06T05:00
Dr Laura Wharton, a Jerusalem City Council member for Meretz and an adjunct lecturer at the Hebrew University’s Department of Political Science, discusses her book Listen
Religiously Democratic? from 2021-08-30T05:00
Prof. Daniel Statman, head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Haifa and a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, where he is the director of the Human Rights and Judaism...
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But Somebody Has to Do It from 2021-08-23T19:00:43
In Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequal...
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Kahane Lives On from 2021-08-16T11:46:11
Although he came to prominence in Israel, as the undisputed emblem of the far-right, Rabbi Meir Kahane was a quintessential American Jew, claims Prof. Shaul Magid in a new book, Listen
The Past Is Never Dead – But Maybe It Should Be from 2021-08-02T15:32:29
After reporting on the cruelest wars of the late 20th century, journalist and cultural critic David Rieff concluded that remembering history was no defense against repeating it, and could even b...
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A City in Text from 2021-07-26T08:01:33
Dr Yair Wallach, Senior Lecturer in Israel Studies at SOAS, University of London, discusses his new book Listen
The Many Faces of Edward Said from 2021-07-19T05:00
Timothy Brennan, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, has published a new biography of Edward Said, the feted Palestinian-American scholar and public intellectual,...
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Climate Change: A Middle Eastern Perspective from 2021-07-12T13:56:51
Dan Rabinowitz, Professor of Sociology at Tel Aviv University, discusses his new book The Powe...
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How Revolutionary Was Israel’s ‘Constitutional Revolution’? from 2021-07-05T13:06:57
Amichai Cohen, Professor of Law at Ono Academic College and Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute discusses his new book The Constitutional Revolution and Counter-Revolution, ...
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Governance vs. Governability: More Than Just Semantics from 2021-06-28T05:00
Edna Harel-Fischer, a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute’s Center for Religion, Nation and State and the Center for Democratic values, unpacks the recent controversy around govern...
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The Naked Truth from 2021-06-21T05:00
The Tel Aviv Review takes a detour to follow the path of American nudists (intellectually). From the late 19th century to the prudish post-war years, through to the let-loose sexual revolution, ...
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Are All Undemocratic Autocrats Autocratic In Their Own Way? from 2021-06-14T13:44:56
The putative omnipotence of Vladimir Putin has led many to view Russia as a uniquely autocratic country. In Listen
This Land Is My Land, It Isn’t Your Land from 2021-06-07T11:56:16
A historian’s hunch led Nancy MacLean to the archives of James McGill Buchanan, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who also incidentally became the patron saint of the Koch brothers, modern liber...
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Poland’s Hunting Season from 2021-05-31T16:23:41
Prof. Jan Grabowski, a Polish-Canadian historian, discusses Jewish-Polish relations during the Nazi occupation, as well as the politics of memory in contemporary Poland and how he has been perso...
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From Babylon to Jerusalem and Back from 2021-05-24T17:58:54
David N Myers and Benjamin Ravid, professors of Jewish history at UCLA and Brandeis University, respectively, discuss the life and work of Simon Rawidowicz, a seminal, albeit somewhat forgotten,...
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Self-Hating Democracy? from 2021-05-10T05:00
Why would citizens vote freely for political leaders plotting or even promising to attack their democracy? Why do certain policies, parties or people take priority over democratic norms at the b...
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Populist-Progressive Feminist Alliance or Opportunistic Nationalism? from 2021-05-03T14:50:41
Since when do xenophobic nationalist political actors in Europe devote themselves to gender equality, protection of women and human rights?
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The Poisoned Fruit of Facebook from 2021-04-26T07:37:37
Facebook may not be the source of all evils – but at least many of them. In his book Listen
Holy Site, Holy Month from 2021-04-19T05:00
Prof. Daniella Talmon-Heller of the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben Gurion University, discusses her new book Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East: A His...
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When Politics Got Nasty from 2021-04-12T17:46:49
How did America’s political culture move from civil disagreement to visceral rage? In Listen
My Country, ‘Tis of Thee, Right or Wrong? from 2021-04-05T14:44:53
Is love of country a blessing or a menace? Can a citizen of the world embrace universal values but also love one’s country, and does it matter if old fashioned patriotism fades into the past? In...
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Israeli Democracy: Going, Going Gone? from 2021-03-22T09:20:27
Why is Israel hacking away at its own democratic institutions and values? The assault on the judiciary, primacy of the majority at the expense of minorities, loyalty as a litmus test, corruption...
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Each Country – Populist in Its Own Way? from 2021-03-15T16:08:08
The nationalist-populist wave of the 21st century has affected Western liberal democracies, as well as countries from a very different political background. Julius Rogenhofer of the University o...
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Brothers From Another Mother? from 2021-03-08T06:00
Rabbi Dr Tal Sessler, the incoming Dean of the Rabbinical School at the Academy of Jewish Religion in California, discusses his forthcoming book, Leibowitz and Levinas: Between Judaism and U...
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The Arab Vote – Is There Such a Thing? from 2021-03-01T16:00:23
Dr Arik Rudnitzky, a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University's Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, analyzes the changing voting patterns ...
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A Rainbow of Complexities in Palestine from 2021-02-22T06:00
Navigating queerness in the West Bank, Gaza or Israel, in refugee camps or as a Palestinian in the West Bank? It's complicated. Why is the LGBTQ global movement intensely invested in the Palesti...
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Idiomatic Expression from 2021-02-15T06:00
When Robert Berman, an American Jewish immigrant to Israel began studying Arabic, he didn't stop until he had written a book full of idioms. Together with language expert Christy Bandak as edito...
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Israeli Democracy in 2021: Close To Breaking Point? from 2021-02-08T16:53
Ahead of a fourth general election in under two years, Yohanan Plesner, President of the Israel Democracy Institute, joins us to discuss what needs to be done to come out of the ongoing politica...
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Long, Long, Long Live King Bibi from 2021-02-01T09:41:49
In their documentary film King Bibi: The Life and Performances of Benjamin Netanyahu, Dan Shadur and...
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Cracking the Code from 2021-01-25T11:27:38
It took the world’s most advanced digital pioneers, when the computer as we know it was barely born, to stave off Nazi conquest of the Middle East. And it took Gershom Gorenberg to write the tru...
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The Untold Stories of Iran’s Jews from 2021-01-18T06:00
At times reminiscent of European Jewry in the 19th century, at others of American Jewry in the 20th, the modern history of Iran’s Jews varies radically from contemporary Jewish histories in the ...
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Meet the Mayor Next Door from 2021-01-11T09:41:02
Musa Hadid is an all-around nice guy; he’s determined to fix up the old town, re-brand his city, and have a Christmas celebration for everyone. But being the Mayor of Ramallah is no ordinary job...
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Can America Ever Get It Right in the Middle East? from 2021-01-04T08:28:44
If a former White House coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Gulf, who served as special assistant to President Obama concludes that you shouldn’t undertake regime change in th...
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COVID and the Israeli Economy: A Bittersweet Reckoning from 2020-12-28T18:23:14
Prof. Karnit Flug, Vice President of the Israel Democracy Institute and former Chancellor of the Bank of Israel, assesses the effects of the COVID pandemic on the Israeli economy.
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Could It Happen To Us? from 2020-12-21T15:41:24
In her bestselling Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, acclaimed journalist and historian Anne Applebaum examines how a wave of nationalist populism swept thr...
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Identity, Dissembled from 2020-12-14T06:00
German-Jewish poet, political scientist and sometimes-provocateur Max Czollek examines the complex dance between modern Germany and German Jews, Holocaust memory, minority identity, radical dive...
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In God They Trust from 2020-12-07T10:00:54
Dr. Gilad Malach, Director of the Ultra-Orthodox in Israel Program at the Israel Democracy Institute, discusses how the Covid pandemic has affected internal dynamics within the Haredi community ...
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We’re All in This Together. Are We? from 2020-11-30T05:00
Yuval Feldman, professor of law at Bar-Ilan University and a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, utilizes behavioral analysis of regulation, enforcement and compliance to discuss ho...
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Who Poisoned My News? from 2020-11-23T15:42:57
Social media has corrupted the truth, spawned fake news and contributed to the collapse of polite political norms – right or wrong?
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Bridging the Gulf from 2020-11-16T10:51:57
Dr. Moran Zaga was studying the Persian Gulf countries long before it became fashionable for Israel to make peace with them. She explains the historic and political background to a series of unl...
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The Middle East Through Russian-Israeli Eyes from 2020-11-09T16:55
Ksenia Svetlova’s story is gripping: she moved to Israel as a teen, grew up to become a journalist, and eventually served as a Member of Knesset. In her book: “Reporting the Middle East on High ...
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Hearts of Darkness from 2020-11-02T05:00
In The Management of Hate: Nation, Affect, and the Governance of Right-Wing Extremism in Germany, Dr. Nitzan Shoshan travels with the marginalized, outcasts and left-behind members of G...
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Ordinary People: Polish-Jewish Relations During the Holocaust from 2020-10-26T14:39:23
Prof. Havi Dreifuss of the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University and the International Institute of Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, discusses her book Relations Between Jews ...
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Antisemitism: Past and Present from 2020-10-19T05:00
Dr. Scott Ury, the outgoing director of Tel Aviv University’s Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, and Guy Meron, Prof. of Jewish History at the Open Uni...
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Dialectic of Catastrophe: The Holocaust and the Nakba from 2020-10-12T15:55:39
Prof. Bashir Bashir of the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel, and Prof. Amos Goldberg of the Department of Jewish History at the Hebre...
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A Chronicle of Diplomacy from 2020-10-05T06:40:10
The Israeli Palestinian conflict is among the most prominent and complex foreign policy challenges for the European Union. Anders Persson looks at the evolution of EU policy towards the conflict...
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Ending Wars Peacefully from 2020-09-21T12:51:37
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Living With Ghosts from 2020-09-14T07:47:14
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From Genetics To Eugenics from 2020-09-07T13:15:20
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Dark Rooms from 2020-08-31T14:47:26
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A Very Diplomatic Review from 2020-08-24T08:53:23
As part of our special series sponsored by the German government, the Tel Aviv Review hosts Germany’s Ambassador to Israel, Dr. Susanne Wasum-Rainer.
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Disinformation Smells Bad from 2020-08-17T05:00
If healthy democracies depend on a well-informed citizen body, does disinformation destroy them? Can the average person know when to trust science, or spot bad information causing political and ...
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Endangered Liberalism from 2020-08-10T11:14:34
Menny Mautner, Professor Emeritus of Law at Tel Aviv University, discusses his book Liberalism in Israel: History, Problems and Contingencies, analyzing the onset of the liberal agenda ...
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Prelude to a Nation from 2020-08-03T13:55:03
Prof. Ruth HaCohen-Pinczower, co-author of Singing Freedom: The Interplay between Music and Politics in the West, discusses the power of music as well as power and music.
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Israel And The Family Of Nations from 2020-07-27T17:02:31
After decades of diplomacy, Oded Eran, former Ambassador to the EU and Jordan, now at the Institute for National Security Studies, provides a comprehensive checkup of Israeli foreign policy. He ...
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The History, Memory And Myth Of The Kishinev Pogrom from 2020-07-20T05:00
The Kishinev Pogrom of 1903 was among the seminal events of modern Jewish history. The violence was memorialized in ways that shaped Jewish identity, from the early Zionist national narrative to...
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How New Conspiracy Theorists Undermine Democracy from 2020-07-13T12:06:16
A politician you don’t like might be running child prostitutes from a pizzeria. Election results you don’t like were rigged. In their new book A Lot of People are Saying, Professors Nan...
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Can We Inoculate Democracy From Populism? from 2020-07-06T14:34:44
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It Is a Sighted Man’s World from 2020-06-29T09:00:09
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Martin Buber: A Beautiful Mind? from 2020-06-22T05:00
In his new biography, Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent, Paul...
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Europe in the Middle East: The Imperfect Storm from 2020-06-15T09:50:58
How can the EU cope with recent or ongoing ruinous wars in Syria, Yemen and Libya, in a field full of foreign powers, and still tow a clear line on the Israeli Palestinian conflict?
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My People, Our History from 2020-06-08T09:26:05
Rashid Khalidi, a leading historian of the Palestinian national movement, weaves his family history into a century of the Palestinian national struggle against Israel and international forces se...
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The Environmental Peacemaker from 2020-06-01T09:20:56
There’s no time like the COVID-19 pandemic to learn about the interconnectedness of countries in the Middle East – even across conflict lines.
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The Best and Worst of Both Worlds from 2020-05-25T05:00
Nancy Sinkoff, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History and the academic director of the Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University, discusses her new book
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Prof. Dani Filc of Ben Gurion University continues our populism and democracy series by shining the spotlight on Israel. With comparative global context, he asks how Israeli political populism d...
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In God We Trust? Nationalism and Secularization Revisited from 2020-05-11T11:45
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Tough Love or Tough Luck? EU and the Middle East Peace Process from 2020-05-04T05:00
The European Union treats Israel like the closest of cousins. However, the EU remains vexed by the atrophied peace process, and seeks measures to push the sides to end their conflict. But can EU...
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Fraught Friends: Israel and the EU, Past and Present from 2020-04-27T08:37:07
Israel and the European Union were both founded following World War II – Israel would protect the Jews and the EU would inoculate the continent from another war. Yet their relationship with each...
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Cherchez Les Femmes from 2020-04-20T05:00
Dr Rachel Mesch, professor of French and English at Yeshiva University, discusses her new book Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France.
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The Crypto-Jews of the Mid-Atlantic from 2020-04-13T15:24:31
Ronnie Perelis, Associate Professor of Sephardic Studies and the director of the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Program for International Affairs, discusses his book Narratives from the Sephardic Atl...
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Returning to the Scene of the Crime from 2020-04-06T17:10:16
Why are young Israeli Jews, three generations after the Holocaust, moving to Germany in droves? Who are they, how do they explain their choices, and what are the reactions back home? What does t...
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If You Build It: Jewish Architecture Throughout the Centuries from 2020-03-30T18:08:11
Yeshiva University professors Jess Olson, Ronnie Perelis and Steven Fine, contributors to the edited book Jewish Religious Architecture: From Biblical Israel to Modern Judaism, come tog...
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Well-Behaved Orthodox Journalists Seldom Make History from 2020-03-23T15:35:06
Orthodox journalists Sivan Rahav-Meir and Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt discuss the media, religion and gender in a panel discussion held at Yeshiva University in New York.
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Judaism for Dummies? from 2020-03-16T10:08:52
Jess Olson, Associate Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, discusses his book Jewish Culture: A Quick Immersion. Is the title not a contradiction in terms?
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I'll Have What She's Having from 2020-03-09T05:00
Adeena Sussman's new Israeli cookbook Sababa took the food world by storm, and everyone else. With prose as effortless as her recipes look, she tells the story of her life in Israel thr...
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Death of the Children, Flight of the Birds from 2020-03-02T05:00
Acclaimed novelist Colum McCann's newest novel confronts pain so deep, it can only be dismantled and reassembled as images. His new novel, Apeirogon, uses a unique literary form to make...
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My Neighbor, My Kapo from 2020-02-24T05:00
Between 1950-1972, dozens of former Jewish kapos stood trial in Israel, yet their story is almost entirely unknown. Prof. Dan Porat, a historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses ...
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Israeli and Palestinian Literature as Critique from 2020-02-17T11:47:39
Dr. Kfir Cohen Lustig, Academic Director of the Globalization and Sovereignty Cluster at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, discusses his book Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs: Israeli and ...
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More Jewish, Less Democratic? from 2020-02-10T14:50:26
Rabbi Hara Person, the Chief Executive of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, is the publisher of the new book Deepening the Dialogue: American Jews and Israelis Envision the Jewish D...
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Existential Frets: The Rise and Fall of Jean-Paul Sartre in the Arab World from 2020-02-03T05:00
Dr Yoav Di Capua, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in Arab intellectual history, discusses his new book No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean Paul Sartre ...
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Reading Farsi in Tel Aviv from 2020-01-27T05:00
Behind the political bogeyman of modern Iran lie centuries of Persian poetry and literature. Orly Noy, journalist and political activist, translates Farsi literature into Hebrew, from the novels...
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Why Can't America Embrace Palestine? from 2020-01-20T05:00
Khaled Elgindy, formerly at the Brookings Institute and currently Senior Fellow and Director of the Program on Palestine and Palestinian-Israeli Affairs at the Middle East Institute, writes that...
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Populism for the Popular Audience from 2020-01-13T05:00
Scholars and co-authors Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser and Cas Mudde provide a comprehensive look at the elusive phenomenon of populism for the general reader. Their treatment of populism spans lef...
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The Israeli Economy: A Report Card from 2020-01-06T05:00
Prof. Karnit Flug, former Governor of the Bank of Israel and currently Vice President for Research at the Israel Democracy Institute, analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the Israeli economy...
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Zionism Explained to My Neighbor from 2020-01-03T05:00
Yossi Klein Halevy, American-Israeli writer and public intellectual, senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, discusses his best-selling book Letters to My Palestinian Nei...
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How to Deal With the Oldest Hatred from 2019-12-30T10:57:44
Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger, a Reform rabbi at the West London Synagogue and a member of the House of Lords, as well as a member of several philanthropic organizations, including the Van Leer...
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In His Image from 2019-12-27T05:00
Dr Tomer Persico, a religions scholar, currently Shalom Hartman Institute Bay Area Scholar in Residence and the Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley, di...
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How to Fight Back Against Populists, Politely from 2019-12-23T11:38:36
Israeli law scholar Dr. Yaniv Roznai analyzes the multiple layers of damage populist leaders wreak on democracy, often attacking the foundation of political life: the constitution.
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‘To Celebrate Independence Day Is to Make a Statement of Faith’ from 2019-12-20T12:19:42
Rabbi Prof. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, one of the most prominent Jewish thinkers and community leaders in Postwar America, discusses the place of Israel in his theological worldview, and the shift...
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The Right Stuff: When Israel Knew How to Compromise from 2019-12-16T18:42:39
Two of the most prominent figures in America's efforts to advance a two-state solution, Ambassador Dennis Ross and David Makovsky, take a deep look at four Israeli leaders and their pivotal deci...
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Bret Stephens on the State of America and the State of Israel from 2019-12-13T07:00
The prominent New York Times columnist joins the Tel Aviv Review at the Z3 conference to discuss politics in the US and across the pond.
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The Right to Culture: A Right in Its Own Right? from 2019-12-09T05:00
Edna Harel-Fisher, a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute and a former legal adviser to several government bodies, discusses her position paper on the government's role in financing...
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My Israel: A Neo-Zionist Awakening from 2019-12-06T10:27:06
Sara Haetzni-Cohen, the director of My Israel, a grassroots organization dedicated to promote Zionism online and a columnist in the weekly Makor Rishon newspaper, explains the role of the hard r...
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Anti-Globalization Goes Global from 2019-12-02T10:16:46
Israeli television's veteran foreign affairs reporter Nadav Eyal has hung out with miners in Pennsylvania, Molotov-cocktail wielding anarchists in Greece, neo-Nazis in Germany, Marine LePen and ...
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Who Is a Gentile? from 2019-11-29T05:00
Rabbi Sigalit Ur, a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, discusses her study encompassing hundreds of dialogues between Jews and Gentiles in Rabbinic literature.
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Avishai Margalit on Betrayal from 2019-11-25T04:00
Avishai Margalit, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, as well as a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerus...
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Church, State and Hospital: Haredi Encounters With Healthcare Services from 2019-11-18T16:27:03
Dr Ben Kasstan, medical anthropologist at the University of Sussex and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses his new book Making Bodies Kosher: The Politics of Reproduction Among Har...
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The Jewsraelis: Portrait of a People, Portrait of a Nation from 2019-11-11T05:00
Shmuel Rosner, journalist, editor and senior research fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute discusses his new book (co-authored with Prof. Camil Fuchs), Israeli Judaism, an attem...
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What's Eating Russian Artists? from 2019-11-04T10:30:58
Liza Rozovsky, culture reporter for Haaretz newspaper, writes about contemporary Russian culture under ongoing forms of political oppression, alongside artistic expressions of the experiences fo...
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We Forgave the Germans, and Then We Were Friends from 2019-10-28T09:48:25
How did Ben Gurion and first post-war German chancellor Konrad Adenauer become sincere political allies just a few years after the end of the war?
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Ben-Gurion: An Intimate Portrait from 2019-10-21T11:31:25
Historian and journalist Dr Tom Segev discusses his new book, A State at all Costs: The Life of David Ben-Gurion, a new biography of Israel's founding father that draws heavily on his n...
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Jews as Political Football in Ukraine's War from 2019-10-14T16:40:39
Jerusalem Post reporter Sam Sokol traveled the Ukraine numerous times from 2013 to cover Jewish communities as the country spiraled into conflict with Russia. He found that each side wanted to e...
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The State of Syria, Through Israeli Eyes from 2019-10-07T12:50:03
Elizabeth Tsurkov is among the few Israelis to have visited Syria since the war began. She might be the only one to have reached a sweeping range of people from Kurdish fighters to ISIS supporte...
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Unexpected Citizenship: The Case of Israel's Latinos from 2019-09-23T09:07:06
Alejandro Paz, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto, discusses his book Latinos in Israel: Language and Unexpected Citizenship, an ethnographic study into th...
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The Creative Soul of the Sad Zionist from 2019-09-16T05:00
In Zionism and Melancholy, The Short Life of Israel Zarchi, Nitzan Lebovic inhabits the mind and soul of a lesser-known early Zionist poet. The result is a literary, academic, psychoana...
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Not Just Another Cuppa Joe from 2019-09-09T12:46:53
In A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture, Shachar Pinsker shows how coffee houses then and now, there and here, helped give rise to modernity itself.
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Everything You Wanted to Know About the Israeli Economy but Were Afraid to Ask from 2019-09-03T07:04:49
Joseph Zeira, Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses his new book The Israeli Economy, an introduction to all matters Israeli and economic.
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The Role of Social History and Anthropology in Telling the Story of Jerusalem from 2019-08-26T05:00
What does it mean to live in the divided and unified city of Jerusalem? What are the different memories and narratives that inhabit its streets?
Dana Hercbergs, a scholar of folklore and ...
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Vocational Training: The Past - and Future - of Israel's Economy from 2019-08-19T15:16:13
Dr Eitan Regev, an economist and Research Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, is a co-author of The Handbook on Vocational Training.
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Introducing the Tel Aviv Review of Books from 2019-08-18T12:50:19
The Tel Aviv Review of Books is a new online English-language publication that seeks, by way of book reviews, essays, literary criticism, original fiction and poetry, to give the international r...
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Creating Killers from 2019-08-12T05:00
One of the most controversial questions about the Holocaust is whether it should be seen as a universal human problem, or a unique horror perpetrated by Germans on Jews. At the heart of this que...
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The Curious Case of Holocaust Memory in Former Communist Countries from 2019-08-05T15:04:02
The rage against communism led some countries to diminish the historic fight against fascism under leaders they now loathe. Could this help justify neo-fascist revivals in the post-communist wor...
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Judicial Review Under Review from 2019-07-29T06:50:56
Israel's judiciary is under assault, according to some, or experiencing a necessary corrective to rampant judicial activism, according to others.
Dr. Amir Fuchs, legal expert and the head...
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Analyzing Israel in Germany from 2019-07-22T18:28:12
Dr. Peter Lintl, a researcher at the German think tank Stiftung Wissenschaft Und Politik (SWP), has the complex job of analyzing Israeli political trends to the German policy community.
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Teaching the Holocaust in Al-Quds from 2019-07-15T05:00
Why does a Palestinian professor believe it is so important for his students to learn about the Holocaust?
Mohammed Dajani talks about what he has learned from taking Palestinian students...
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Liberalism and Nationalism: Friends or Enemies? from 2019-07-08T06:28:05
“Liberal” and “nationalist” sound like mutually exclusive forces that cannot coexist. Yet Yuli Tamir, scholar, peace activist and a former government minister, makes the liberal case for nationa...
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The Old/New Middle East from 2019-07-01T14:52:56
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“I Am Indeed a Sheigetz of the Gentile Persuasion” from 2019-06-30T08:09:44
Shane Baker, a theater director and creator, recounts his unusual entry into Yiddish theater and his efforts to revive a once-glorious artistic tradition in the city.
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Can Constitutions Save Us? from 2019-06-24T05:00
All societies are divided, and constitutions are supposed to set the rules for a peaceful life. Hanna Lerner is the expert on how constitutions around the world seek to express complex national ...
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The Name Is Arendt. Hannah Arendt from 2019-06-21T17:54:02
Ken Krimstein, an illustrator and graphic novelist, discusses his new book The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth.
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Getting Better All the Time? from 2019-06-17T05:00
Michael A. Cohen (no, not that one) and Micah Zenko have a radical proposal: The world is getting better, not worse.
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Cause or Effect? The Media's Role in Democratic Decline from 2019-06-10T09:23:43
Having experienced virtually the most devastating crisis in its history, what can the media do to safeguard democracy, in an increasingly hostile environment?
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The Way We Were: Biography of the 1948 Generation from 2019-06-03T05:00
Prof. Hanna Yablonka, a historian at Ben-Gurion University, discusses her book Children By The Book: Biography of a Generation, painting a collective portrait of a unique generation of ...
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A History of the Jews in 23 Million Objects from 2019-05-31T05:00
Stephanie Halpern and Leo Greenbaum of the YIVO archives take us on a stroll through decades of Jewish history via historical documents and paraphernalia that have made the institute the primary...
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Can Anyone Own Kafka? from 2019-05-27T05:00
Israel claims it owns his papers, but so does a German archive and an old lady on Spinoza Street in Tel Aviv. Nothing is more Kafka-esque than the story of his papers, chronicled in Benjamin Bal...
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Tel Aviv Review Live in New York: Michael Walzer on the Problem of the Left from 2019-05-24T05:00
Michael Walzer, political philosopher of international renown and Professor Emeritus of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, joins the Tel Aviv Review on the premises...
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Islam, on the Verge of Reformation from 2019-05-20T05:00
Mustafa Akyol believes that it is high time for Islam to undergo liberalizing reforms and he knows just the person to do it: Mustafa Akyol.
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Liberalism Is Dead. Long Live Liberalism from 2019-05-13T05:00
Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities at Columbia University, recently participated in the Global Forum of the National Library of Israel. He discusses his book The Once and Future Liberal: Af...
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Who Lost Russia? from 2019-05-06T11:02
Who lost Russia? In The Future is History, acclaimed author Masha Gessen dove into the heart of the Soviet Union and came up with the root causes of Russia's trajectory in the decades a...
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Foot Nationalism: Hiking and Nation-Building in Israel from 2019-04-29T04:00
Dr Shay Rabineau, Assistant Professor of Israel Studies at Binghamton University, discusses his forthcoming book Marking and Mapping the Nation: A history of Israel's hiking trail network Listen
Outsiders United: Blacks, Jews and the American Experience from 2019-04-22T04:00
Dr Jonathan Karp, Associate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at Binghamton University, discusses the crossover between Jewish-American and African-American cultural, economic and intellec...
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To Fight and Die for Someone Else's Country from 2019-04-15T05:00
Dr Nir Arielli, Associate Professor of International History at the University of Leeds, discusses his book From Byron To Bin Laden: A History of Foreign War Volunteers.
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L'Etat C'Est Moi: The Personalization of Politics in Israel from 2019-04-08T04:00
In Israel, people vote for a party rather than a candidate. But over the years, there has been a shift towards the personalization of politics. Why have our elections become a competition among ...
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What Do Haredi Voters Really Want? from 2019-04-01T05:00
Gilad Malach of the Israel Democracy Institute gives the latest electoral trends among Israel's insular ultra-orthodox Jewish community. Why is a small community so divided, and why are growing ...
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Extra: Covering the Conflict from Washington from 2019-03-26T14:07:40
In this special panel discussion recorded in Washington DC, Gilad Halpern and Americans for Peace Now's PeaceCa...
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The Hackers Are Coming, the Hackers Are Coming from 2019-03-25T10:25:23
Iran has apparently hacked the cellphone of Benny Gantz, Prime Minister Netanyahu's main challenger in the April 9 elections. But despite serving as a tool in Likud's campaign, it has not derail...
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The Story of Science from 2019-03-18T06:00
Prof. Oren Harman, a historian of science and the Chair of the Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society at Bar-Ilan University, discusses his book Evolutions: Fifteen Myths that E...
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Will 2019 Be the Moment of Truth for Israeli Democracy? from 2019-03-11T09:57:11
Will Israel's democratic institutions prove resilient? How is the party system changing and is Israel headed for a tyranny of the majority?
Yohanan Plesner, President of the Israel Democr...
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YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture from 2019-03-08T06:00
Dr. Cecile Kuznitz, director of Jewish Studies at Bard College and author of YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation retraces with host Gilad Ha...
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When We Let Our Schooling Interfere with Our Education from 2019-03-04T06:00
Yossi Dahan, a law and philosophy professor at the Ramat Gan College of Law and Business and at the Open University, and the chairman of the Adva Center for equality and social justice, discusse...
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Kill Thy Neighbor from 2019-02-25T20:51:23
When do people to commit mass violence against an ethnic, religious or racial group in their midst? Does the demand for minority rights inevitably spark existential fears and violent reactions f...
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Us and Them: Is There Any Way Out? from 2019-02-18T17:29:47
Nurit Novis-Deutsch, a psychologist of religion, values, morality and identity, believes that people who perceive themselves as having a complex identity might be more tolerant of the "other" in...
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When Zionism and Human Rights Got Along from 2019-02-11T18:23:04
Before human rights was a universally accepted concept, and before there was Israel, there were prominent Jews who supported both. Some would contribute to the evolution of modern human rights c...
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All the King's Men: Tribal Leadership in Modern Jordan from 2019-02-04T18:26:09
Prof. Yoav Alon, a historian of the Middle East, discusses his award-winning book The Shaykh of Shaykhs: Mithgal al Fayiz and Tribal Leadership in Modern Jordan.
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Matthew Goodwin: Get to Know the New Nationalists from 2019-01-28T20:02:09
From Hungary to Brazil, to Italy, the UK and US a special style of nationalist politics seems to be taking over. But is the current wave of national-populism new, or rooted in older historic tre...
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The Human Experience in Objects: The Case for Museums in the 21st Century from 2019-01-21T06:00
Neil McGregor, the former director of the British Museum, analyzes the enduring validity of museums in the age of technological upheavals and fake news.
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Corruption: A Very Glocal Problem from 2019-01-14T15:06:10
Transparency International is among the most prominent global organizations fighting corruption through exposure, documentation and measurement.
Delia Ferreira Rubio, Chair of the organiz...
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Unlock the Mysteries of the Arab World from 2019-01-07T18:53:22
Shibley Telhami is the master of survey research in the Middle East. His book The World Through Arab Eyes walks through the complexities of characterizing the Arab world through survey ...
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Foul Language: The Politicization of Arabic Teaching in Israeli Schools from 2019-01-04T06:00
Dr. Yonatan Mendel, the director of the Center for Jewish-Arab relations at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, is author of the recently published "The Creation of Israeli Arabic: Security...
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Modern-Ultra-Orthodox: Israel's Haredi Community at a Crossroads from 2018-12-31T09:54:34
Dr Gilad Malach, head of the ultra-Orthodox research program at the Israel Democracy Institute, discusses the findings of the 2018 statistical report on the ultra-Orthodox society in Israel, whi...
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Body Politics: Bioethics and Medical Sociology, Revisited from 2018-12-24T06:00
Dr Hagai Boas, head of the Science, Technology and Civilization Program at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, discusses his co-edited volume Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-Legal, ...
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OMG - Israeli Film Finds Religion from 2018-12-17T06:00
Israeli film scholar Dan Chyutin observes that Israeli film once reflected secular Israeli society, and religion appeared mainly as stage dressing. But in recent decades, a steady stream of film...
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Democracy in Crisis? Israeli Survey Respondents Agree to Disagree from 2018-12-11T20:28:30
Israel's 2018 Democracy Index, an annual survey of the health of Israeli democracy, shows off the deepest contradictions in Israeli life.
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Level-Headed Men Seldom Make History from 2018-12-03T10:38:25
Derek Penslar, Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, discusses his forthcoming book, Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader, an addition to more than 200 biographies of the ...
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The Holocaust Averted: Counterfactual History of US Jews from 2018-11-30T06:00
Jeffrey S. Gurock, professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University, delves into the realm of counterfactual history in his recently published The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of...
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Set up to Fail: Genealogy of Unachieved Palestinian Statehood from 2018-11-26T06:00
Dr. Seth Anziska, a lecturer in Jewish-Muslim relations at University College, London and a visiting fellow at the US/Middle East Project, discusses his book Listen
Palestinian Refugees: The Third Rail of the Conflict from 2018-11-19T15:35:31
Former Member of Knesset Einat Wilf discusses her book War of Return, arguing that the conflict will never end until the world recognizes that Palestinian refugees, as they are usually ...
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Several Tales of a City: Rethinking Contested Urbanisms from 2018-11-12T12:20:09
Dr Jonathan Rokem, a geographer and architecture scholar at University College, London, discusses his book Urban Geopolitics: Rethinking Planning in Contested Cities, which encompasses ...
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The Empire Strikes Back: British Intelligence in the Middle East 1940-1948 from 2018-11-09T06:00
Prof. Meir Zamir, Middle East scholar at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, is the author of ...
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The Yazidis: Loss, Dislocation and Collective Trauma from 2018-11-05T13:09:31
Idan Barir, a research fellow at the Forum for Regional Thinking and a translator for the Van Leer Institute's Maktoob series of Arabic literature in Hebrew, tells the story of the Yazi...
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Brava Gente: Debunking the Myth of Jew-Loving Italians from 2018-10-29T13:06:16
Dr Shira Klein, professor of modern history at Chapman University, discusses her book Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism, analyzing the contested legacy of the modern Jewish expe...
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Not So Separate, Certainly Not Equal: A History of Partitions from 2018-10-22T10:46:37
Arie Dubnov, professor of History and Israel Studies at the George Washington University, discusses his new book Partitions: A Transnational of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separation....
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Jew Bites Dog: Tidbits from the Yiddish Press of Yore from 2018-10-15T10:49:21
Dr Eddy Portnoy, Senior Researcher and Director of Exhibitions at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, discusses his book Bad Rabbi and Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Pre...
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In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel from 2018-10-12T05:00
Dr. Adam Rovner, an Associate Professor of English and Jewish Literature at the University of Denver in the United States, recently had his book In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands before ...
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Lessons in Disillusionment: Hans Kohn and the Crisis of Nationalism from 2018-10-08T12:02:59
Adi Gordon, professor of Jewish and European intellectual histories at Amherst College, discusses his new book Towards Nationalism's End, an intellectual biography of 20th-century natio...
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Our Friend in the White House: Lincoln and the Jews from 2018-10-05T05:00
Jonathan Sarna, professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University, author of numerous books including, very recently, Lincoln and the Jews: A history, which he co-edited with Benjamin ...
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Not Just Jihad: Every War Is Holy in Its Own Way from 2018-10-01T05:00
Ron Hassner, professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses his book Religion on the Battlefield, which explores the place occupied by religious fai...
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How the Nazis Imagined a World Without Jews from 2018-09-28T05:00
Prof. Alon Confino discusses the Nazi desire to remove the Jews not only from the present and the future, but also from the past.
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Post-Zionism: A Post-Mortem from 2018-09-24T19:33:12
Eran Kaplan, Israel Studies professor at San Francisco State University, discusses his book Beyond Post-Zionism, a critical analysis of an intellectual fad that took the Israeli politic...
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All the Middle East's a Stage, and Jews and Arabs Merely Players from 2018-09-17T14:35:35
Dr. Lee Perlman, a research fellow at Tel Aviv University's Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research discusses his new book, “But Abu Ibrahim, We're Family!”, exploring several theater productio...
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Zionesses: Women in Israeli Cinema from 2018-09-10T16:51:53
Dr. Rachel Harris, professor of Israeli literature and culture at the University of Urbana Champaign, discusses her new book Warrior, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema. How do the evolvin...
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Hitler and Atatürk: How Turkish Nationalism Inspired the Nazis from 2018-09-07T05:00
Dr. Stefan Ihrig, a historian and post-doctoral fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, recently had his book Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination published in English by Harvard Univers...
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Rebel with a Cause: The Story of a Legendary Jewish Spy from 2018-09-03T11:24:39
Gregory Wallance, a New York-based attorney and writer, discusses his new book The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and her Nili Spy Ring, telling the story of an Israeli ico...
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Take Notice: The Power of the Unremarkable from 2018-08-27T05:00
Eviatar Zerubavel, professor of sociology at Rutgers University, discusses his new book Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable. How do our linguistic priorities cha...
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Are We Living in an Unprecedented Age of People Power? from 2018-08-20T05:00
Professor Erica Chenoweth, a scholar of international relations says that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of non-violent protests in the world. She knows because she counts them...
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On Hell and Other People: The Enduring Relevance of Existentialism from 2018-08-13T05:00
Dr. Dror Yinon of the Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University reviews a series of lectures on Existentialism that recently took place at the Van Leer Jerusalem Insti...
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Living in Denial: A 21st-Century Story from 2018-08-06T05:00
Dr. Keith Kahn-Harris, a British sociologist and commentator, discusses his new book Denial: The Unspeakable Truth. It attempts to analyze the emergence and growing prevalence of denialism - a q...
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A Road to Forgiveness: How Societies Cope with Collective Trauma from 2018-07-30T05:00
How do societies recover from major violence and terrible injustice? How do they cope with collective trauma, perpetrators, guilt, and is there a road to forgiveness?
Professor Ruti Teite...
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On the Media: Public Broadcasting, Regulation and Press Freedom in Israel from 2018-07-23T05:00
Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Democratic Values and Institutions, the head of the Media Reform Program and the Open Government Program at the Israel Democrac...
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My Kingdom for a Constitution from 2018-07-20T05:00
Yedidia Stern is worried about disturbing the balance of a Jewish and democratic state, as the nation-state law threatens to do. He believes that Israel must be a Jewish state, but without a leg...
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Business and Human Rights: A Contradiction in Terms? from 2018-07-16T05:00
Can we reconcile between business development and safeguarding human rights? David Bilchitz, professor of law at the University of Johannesburg, proposes a legal framework to do just that in his...
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Live from the 2018 AIS Conference: The ‘Berkeley School’ Approach to Hebrew Literature from 2018-07-09T09:43:12
On this plenary session at the 2018 annual conference of the Association for Israel Studies, recorded at the University of California at Berkeley, Tel Aviv Review host Gilad Halpern, Prof. Chana...
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The Survival of the Sentient: The Evolution of the Soul from 2018-07-02T05:00
Prof. Eva Jablonka, a philosopher of science at Tel Aviv University, discusses her forthcoming book The Ev...
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Quo Vadis, IDF? from 2018-06-25T05:00
The role of the IDF in Israeli life cannot be overstated, past and present. But the country, and the army, are changing. So are the missions Israel undertakes and the nature of warfare. Why is t...
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Babel in Zion: The Inculcation of Hebrew in Pre-State Israel from 2018-06-22T05:00
Dr. Liora Halperin, assistant professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, author of Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism and Language Diversity in Palestine 19...
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Bibi: The King is Alive, Long Live the King from 2018-06-18T05:00
Benjamin Netanyahu's endurance as Prime Minister is matched only by his mystique: what lies behind his grip on Israeli society? How did he climb to the top, and what is the price of his long sta...
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Never Again? East German and Radical Left West German Attitudes to Israel from 2018-06-15T05:00
Jeffrey Herf, a distinguished professor of history at the University of Maryland, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the attitude of East Germany and the West German radical left towards Israel b...
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Occupation: The Law Gives and the Law Takes Away from 2018-06-11T05:00
Michael Sfard, one of Israel’s leading human rights lawyers, chronicles the evolution of the legal pillars of Israel’s military occupation of Palestinians, including deportation, settlements, to...
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Shifting Attitudes Towards Israel and Zionism from 2018-06-08T05:00
For South African Jews, support for Israel has ceased to be the one thing they can all agree upon. Three distinguished panelists debate the meaning, old and new, of engaging with Israel as South...
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Private Eyes: Data, Metadata and Civil Rights from 2018-06-04T05:00
How did a country with the world's most advanced surveillance technology and minimal restrictions on using it end up with a citizenry that hardly minds? Israelis have displayed almost none of th...
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Portrait of an Artist as a Feisty Activist from 2018-05-28T05:00
Isn’t art always political, and when it is not, is it just bad art? And what is the role of art in shaping our political outlook, when the Israeli reality offers little escape from politics?
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Ignorance is Bliss? Black Africans' Attitudes Towards Jews from 2018-05-25T05:00
Dr Adam Mendelson, a historian and the director of the Kaplan Center for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town, discusses his recently completed and trailblazing study that ...
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How Did a Palestinian Terrorist Become Israel's National Heart-Throb? from 2018-05-21T05:00
How do you fight a war by becoming the enemy and still keep your identity? Who are the good guys who are the bad guys? What's the best action series on television today, why is it a psychologica...
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Looking Back: Memories of an Anti-Apartheid Activist from 2018-05-18T05:00
“I never thought I'd go back to live in South Africa,” says Lorna Levy, a trade unionist and anti-Apartheid activist who spent decades in exile after being banned from her native South Africa. I...
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Everything You Knew about Israel's Economy is Wrong from 2018-05-14T05:00
What does economic history have to do with a country's national identity? In Israel's case, a great deal. The myth of a socialist ideal morphing into a neo-liberal global powerhouse is captivati...
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Black Lives Matter: Identity Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa from 2018-05-11T05:00
Prof. Deborah Posel, a sociologist at the Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town, analyzes how racial tensions have played out in South Africa since the end of Aparthe...
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Why Hast Thou Forsaken Us: Shas' Post-Revolutionary Crisis from 2018-05-07T05:00
Yair Ettinger, a journalist and researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute's "Ultra-Orthodox in Israel" program as well as a fellow at the Hartman Institute in New York, is the co-author, toge...
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The Other Goldene Medina: The History of South African Jewry from 2018-05-04T05:00
Milton Shain, emeritus professor of history at the University of Cape Town, specializing in the history of Jews and anti-Semitism in South Africa, tells the very different story of a Jewish sett...
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Moral Equivalency of Hate from 2018-04-30T05:00
What does radical Islam have in common with right wing extremism? Much, it turns out. From the perception of existential, apocalyptic threat to the sense of historic mission as saviors of their ...
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The Prince: The Emergence of Elites in Early 20th-Century Saudi Arabia from 2018-04-27T05:00
In our minds, Saudi Arabia, to this day, has been an ultraconservative, almost medieval society, with a clear hierarchy and a coercive leadership. But it turns out that is not exactly the case.<...
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Malka Marom's Great Canadian Songbook: Joni, Leonard and I from 2018-04-23T05:00
When Malka Marom, a Canadian-Israeli musician and broadcaster, walked into a destitute Toronto night club in 1966, she was swept off her feet. The music, played by Joni Mitchell, mousy-looking a...
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The Myth of the Cultural Jew from 2018-04-20T05:00
Prof. Roberta Ronsethal Kwall, a legal scholar and the founding director of the DePaul University College of Law, has just authored a new book entitled The Myth of the Cultural Jew – Culture...
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Israel and Hezbollah Get MAD from 2018-04-16T05:00
If another war breaks out between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, it could "turn Lebanon into a car park," and take down wholesale targets in Tel Aviv, says longtime journalist and author, the ...
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How Jews in the Jim Crow South Labored to be White from 2018-04-13T05:00
Dr. Caroline Light of the Program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University talks with host Gilad Halpern about her recent book, That Pride of Race and Character: The Root...
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Pride and Prejudice: The State of Israeli Democracy at 70 from 2018-04-09T09:06:17
Yohanan Plesner, the president of the Israel Democracy Institute, joins us to discuss the past accomplishments and future challenges of democracy in Israel. Ahead of the 70th Independence Day ce...
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Protecting Jews in Interwar Europe: How International Law Tried and Failed from 2018-04-06T05:00
Prof. Carole Fink, a scholar specializing in international European history at Ohio State University in the US, tells host Gilad Halpern about how Europe's Jews fit into the numerous minority pr...
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Imagined Religion: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Judaism from 2018-04-02T05:00
Daniel Boyarin, Professor of Talmudic Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses his forthcoming book “Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notions”, in which he argues that Jud...
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The Birth of the Cosmopolitan Jew from 2018-03-30T05:00
Prof. Sander Gilman, who teaches history at Emory University in the United States, is an extremely prolific academic with a vast spectrum of fields of expertise. He discusses his cleverly entitl...
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Oh Lordy: Reza Aslan on His ‘God: A Human History’ from 2018-03-26T05:00
Why do we believe? After writing books about the god of Islam and Jesus of Nazareth, religion scholar Reza Aslan takes on the biggest question of all: What does “God” mean, anyway? Aslan comes t...
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Israeli Conscientious Objectors: Torn Between Values and Struggle for Survival from 2018-03-23T06:00
Dr. Erica Weiss, Tel Aviv University anthropologist and author of “Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty”, tackles the concept of conscientious objection in...
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Jews, Colonialism and Whiteness: The Latin American Case from 2018-03-19T06:00
Dr Martina Weisz, a research fellow at the Hebrew University's Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, discusses the place of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese colonial project...
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American Zion: The Old Testament in Early American Political Thought from 2018-03-16T06:00
Dr. Eran Shalev of the Department of General History at the University of Haifa, author of American Zion: The Old Testament as Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War, traces the the...
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Squaring the Circle: Islamic Theologians' Encounter with Modernity from 2018-03-12T06:00
Prof. Uriya Shavit, the head of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and of the Religious Studies Program at Tel Aviv University, discusses his new book Scientific and Political Free...
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All Her Daughters: The Story of Jerusalem’s Legendary Headmistress from 2018-03-09T06:00
Prof. Laura Schor, a historian at Hunter College in New York and author of The Best School in Jerusalem: Annie Landau’s School for Girls 1900-1960, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the extraord...
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Men, Women and Children of the World: The Impact of Globalization on the Family from 2018-03-05T06:00
Prof. Daphna Hacker, an associate professor of law and gender studies at Tel Aviv University, discusses her new book Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization, which explo...
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Israel’s Bedouin: Straddling the Line Between Tradition and Modernity from 2018-03-02T06:00
Dr. Sarab Abu Rabia-Queder, a researcher at the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University, specializes in the impact of higher education on Bedouin women.
Her...
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The Only Game in Town: Navigating the Conversion Charade from 2018-02-26T06:00
Dr Michal Kravel Tovi, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Tel Aviv University, discusses her new book When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversions in Israel<...
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Ramle Remade: The Israelization of an Arab Town from 2018-02-23T06:00
Dr. Danna Piroyansky, author of Ramle Remade: The Israelization of an Arab Town 1948-1967, discusses the very Israeli concept of ‘mixed cities’ – the result of government-sanctioned mix...
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My Halakha, Your Halakha: Between Jewish Law and Jewish Life from 2018-02-19T10:46:19
Dr. Leon Wiener Dow, a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, discusses his new book, The Going: A Meditation on Jewish Law, an autobiographical and theological exploratio...
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What Did the Crusaders Ever Learn from Us? from 2018-02-16T06:00
This episode originally aired on Feb. 20, 2015.
Dr. Jonathan Rubin, a historian of the Medieval Levant at Tel Aviv University, specializes in the production of knowledge in the C...
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Get to Know Gaza Before the Next War from 2018-02-12T06:00
With a severe humanitarian and economic crisis, another Gaza war could well be on its way. But Gaza is not only the packed, imprisoned and impoverished strip of misery. It is a place where high ...
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Middle-of-the-Road Judaism: The Emergence of Modern Orthodoxy from 2018-02-09T06:00
This episode originally aired Feb. 13, 2015
Dr. Ephraim Chamiel, a lecturer and scholar of Jewish thought in the modern era, explains who were the Jewish philosophers who sought ...
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No Arbitration Without Representation: Alternative Court Systems in America from 2018-02-05T06:00
Michael Broyde, professor of law at Emory University and former rabbinical judge, discusses the constitutional, legal and societal implications of track two arbitration in the contemporary Unite...
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Portrait of the Father of a Nation from 2018-02-02T06:00
This episode originally aired Feb. 6, 2015
Prof. Anita Shapira, one of Israel's most eminent historians of Zionism, discusses her biography of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding...
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If Someone Comes to Kill You: Exposing Israel’s History of Targeted Assassinations from 2018-01-30T19:00:43
Rise and Kill First reveals Israel's deadliest secrets. The history of targeted assassinations precedes the establishment of the state and continues to the present. Israel has killed te...
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The Holocaust: The Litmus Test of the Israeli Media from 2018-01-26T06:00
This episode originally aired on Jan 31, 2015.
Dr. Oren Meyers of the Department of Communications at the University of Haifa, co-author, together with Eyal Zandberg and Motti Ne...
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Ladies and Gents: The Jewish Bourgeoisie in Interwar Egypt from 2018-01-22T06:00
Liat Maggid-Alon, a historian of the modern Middle East at Kibbutzim College and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, discusses a paper she recently presented at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute,...
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Political Science: Early Israeli-German Scientific Exchanges from 2018-01-19T06:00
This episode originally aired on Dec. 5th, 2014.
Bismarck famously said that "politics is not an exact science" - but what if exact sciences were determined by politics? Prof. Ute Deichma...
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To Have and Have Not: Aspirations, Fulfilled and Unfulfilled from 2018-01-15T06:00
Mika Almog, journalist, screenwriter and author, discusses her new collection of short stories, Anticipation (??????), compiling poignantly unremarkable characters and vignettes, rooted...
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Actually Existing Populism: Anti-Immigration Rhetoric and the Assault on Liberal Democracy from 2018-01-08T06:00
Sasha Polakow-Suransky, deputy editor of Foreign Policy magazine, discusses his new book Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Dem...
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Putting the Criticism Back into Bible Criticism from 2018-01-01T06:00
Little to nothing has changed since the 19th century in the way ancient Jewish scriptures are analyzed and understood. Prof. Hindy Najman, professor of scriptural interpretation of the Bible at ...
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Have a Heart: The Dolphinarium Bombing and a Heart Transplant from 2017-12-29T06:00
No one can forget the horrifying terror attack of 2001 when a suicide bomber killed 21 people, mostly teenage girls, at a Tel Aviv nightclub. But few remember the Palestinian pharmacist murdered...
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Greed or Need? Corruption in a Time of Corruption from 2017-12-25T06:00
Defining corruption may be complicated, but people know it when they see it. Is there such a thing as a culture of corruption, or do people in some countries need bribes to survive? Ina Kubbe di...
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Justice, Justice He Pursued - In the Hague from 2017-12-22T06:00
Sir Geoffrey Nice prosecuted one of the world's most notorious war criminals - Slobodan Milosevic, who escaped justice by dying before his verdict. In his book Justice for All and How to Ach...
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A London Jewish Working Class Hero and His Twin Walk into a Sanatorium... from 2017-12-18T06:00
And from that moment on, Linda Grant sets her cast of unlikely characters free - as much as possible in a TB clinic in 1950s London. The Dark Circle is her seventh novel. The protagonis...
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Live in London: Ian Black on One Hundred Years of Conflict from 2017-12-15T06:00
Ian Black, former Middle East editor of The Guardian newspaper, joins us live to discuss his new book Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel 1917-2017, a...
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Single-Mindedness: Towards a New Understanding of Singlehood from 2017-12-11T06:00
Dr Kinneret Lahad, a senior lecturer in the Women and Gender Studies program at Tel Aviv University, discusses her book A Table for One: Re-Scheduling Singlehood and Time, proposing a w...
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Inclusivity Clauses: Getting Past Stalemate in Peacemaking from 2017-12-08T06:00
Gilead Sher, attorney and former Israel's chief negotiator, the head of the Center for Applied Negotiations at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies, discusses his new co...
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Share Values: Anatomy of a Buzzword from 2017-12-01T06:00
Dr Nicholas John, assistant professor of communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses his book The Age of Sharing, which traces the origins and analyzes the meanings o...
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Permanent Revolution: Soviet Meddling in the Arab-Israeli Conflict from 2017-11-27T06:00
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, associate fellows at the Hebrew University's Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, discuss their book The Soviet-Israeli War 1967-...
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Lights and Shadows of Doubt: Modern Philosophy in Pictures from 2017-11-24T07:00
Steven Nadler, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses the new graphic book Heretics! The Wonderous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, wh...
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Light Unto the Nations: The Global Impact of the American Revolution from 2017-11-20T08:41:21
Jonathan Israel, professor emeritus of modern European history at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, discusses his book Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the W...
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Left-Handed Compliments: Anti-Semitic Discourse Among 'Progressives' from 2017-11-17T07:00
Dr. David Hirsh, a sociologist at Goldsmith's, University of London, discusses his new book Contemporary Left Antisemitism, analyzing the "mainstreaming" of anti-Jewish bigotry among so...
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Tel Aviv Stories: Identity and Dislocation in a Strangely Familiar Place from 2017-11-13T07:00
Israeli-American novelist Dalia Rosenfeld discusses her new and critically-acclaimed book The Worlds We Think We Know, a collection of short stories, in many of which Tel Aviv is a sile...
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Nakba and Survival: The Anti-Heroes of 1948 from 2017-11-10T06:00
Dr. Adel Manna, a historian of modern Palestine and senior fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, discusses his new book, Nakba and Survival: The Story of the Palestinians who Remained ...
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Mandatory Service: How the League of Nations Shaped Modern International Relations from 2017-11-06T07:00
Prof. Susan Pedersen, a historian of Britain and Europe at Columbia University, discusses her most recent book The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire. On the cent...
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Meet the Neighborhood Bogeyman: Iran from 2017-11-03T05:00
Dr. Raz Zimmt is the encyclopedia of policy analysis of Iran. From poring over social media conversations in Persian to analyzing statements, policy, and action of political leaders, his many pa...
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How Israel Abolished Trafficking in Women from 2017-10-30T05:00
Dr. Nurit Hashimshony-Yaffe, a political scientist at the Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College, tells us about her most recent study, which focuses on how Israel managed to clamp down on a prosperous...
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Being Fruitful and Multiplying? Please Stop from 2017-10-27T05:00
Professor Alon Tal, the Chair of the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University and the founder of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, discusses his new and acclaimed book, “T...
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Darwinism vs. Creationism: Not just for Christians from 2017-10-23T05:00
Dr. Rachel Pear, a teaching assistant at the School of Education at Bar-Ilan University and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Haifa, gives us a breakdown of the great variety of Jewish ...
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The Cold War's Six Hot Days from 2017-10-20T05:00
Dr. Guy Laron, a senior lecturer in international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses his new book, “The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East,” in which he analyze...
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Boots on the Ground: Journeys in a War-Torn Middle East from 2017-10-16T05:00
Jonathan Spyer, a Middle East analyst, journalist, and author, discusses his new book, “Days of the Fall: A Reporter’s Journey in the Syria and Iraq Wars,” a first-person account from behind the...
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Storming Down Memory Lane: Memory Activism in Israel and Palestine from 2017-10-12T05:00
Dr. Yifat Gutman, a senior lecturer in sociology and anthrolopology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, discusses her book, “Memory Activism: Reimagining the Past for the Future in Israel-Pal...
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Legal Aliens: Middle-Class Arab Migration to Israeli Metropolitan Areas from 2017-10-09T05:00
Dr. Fahima Abbas, a postdoctoral fellow in geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses the migration patterns of young and professional Arabs from Arab communities to predominantl...
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Persons of Dollar: How GDP Became King from 2017-10-06T05:00
Dr. Eli Cook, lecturer in American history at the University of Haifa, discusses his new book, “The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of of American Life,” a critic...
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Fences and Neighbors: A Story of Friendship Across the Divide from 2017-10-02T05:00
Gwen Ackerman, a veteran American-Israeli journalist, discusses her debut novel, “Goddess of Battle,” a story of an unlikely friendship between two women, a Jewish-American immigrant to Israel a...
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The Wild West (Bank): The Allegory That Keeps on Giving from 2017-09-29T05:00
Israeli novelist Assaf Gavron discusses his book, “The Hilltop: A Novel,” and explains why a secular Tel Avivian chose to set the plot in a remote Jewish outpost in the West Bank. More broadly, ...
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Worth a Thousand Words: Hitler and Nazism in US Editorial Cartoons from 2017-09-25T05:00
Dr. Rafael Medoff, the Founding Director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C., discusses his co-edited book, “Cartoonists Against the Holocaust,” which offer...
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"I'm a Jewish Man in Love with a Hitler Youth" from 2017-09-22T05:00
Jupp, Salomon (Sally) Perel’s Nazi alter ego, which he had to play to survive in the Second World War, hasn’t left him more than 70 years on. Perel’s hair-raising story, and the baggage that he ...
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Are You There, Allah? It's Me, Haroon from 2017-09-18T11:19:26
Growing up is the pits in the best of times. Growing up Muslim in America has special complexities. Being Muslim in America, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, coming of age during and after Septe...
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Fast Forverts: Media and Culture in the US Jewish Labor Movement from 2017-09-15T05:00
Dr. Brian Dolbert, an assistant professor of communication at California State University, San Marcos, discusses his book, "Media and Culture in the US Jewish Labor Movement: Sweating for Democr...
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Hebrew: The Revival of a Not-So-Dead Language from 2017-09-11T05:00
Lewis Glinert, a professor of Hebrew Studies at Dartmouth College, discusses his new book, “The Story of Hebrew,” a detailed biography of 3,500 years of life, presumed death, and resurrection. Listen
TLV1 Extra: Unconventional Views on Current Events from 2017-09-08T05:00
David Benkof, a columnist at the Daily Caller, writes from a conservative Republican gay Orthodox Jewish perspective about why he voted for Hillary Clinton and moved to Israel as a Trump refugee...
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Between a Rock and Hard Place: Jews of Buczacz Amid Rising Nationalism from 2017-09-04T05:00
Omer Bartov, a professor of European history at Brown University, discusses his forthcoming book, "Anatomy of Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz," which offers an intricate an...
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Putting South Africa Together Again (And Surviving a Bomb) from 2017-09-01T05:00
After fighting apartheid for forty years and surviving a bomb attack in the process, in the early 1990s, Albie Sachs found himself helping to draft the constitution that would become the foundat...
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Upper West Bank: The Story of American-Born Settlers from 2017-08-28T05:00
Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn, a lecturer in Israel Studies at Oxford University, discusses her book City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement, which attempts to expl...
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Badges and Gadgets: Israel's High-Tech Army from 2017-08-25T05:00
Yaakov Katz, the editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post newspaper, discusses his book Weapons Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower.
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Enemies, a Love Story: North African Jews and Muslims in France from 2017-08-21T05:00
Dr. Ethan Katz, an associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati, discusses his book, "The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France," which recounts ...
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War Before Wars: Nationalism and Violence in the Balkans, 1912-1913 from 2017-08-18T05:00
Cathie Carmichael, a professor of European History at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, discusses the political unrest that plagued the Balkans on the eve of the First World W...
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No Return: Non-Jewish Migrants in the Jewish State from 2017-08-14T05:00
Mya Guarnieri Jaradat, an American-Israeli journalist, discusses her book Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others, which is the result of a decade of research into the lives and lega...
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The Burden of Responsibility: Hamas Rule in Gaza from 2017-08-11T05:00
Dr. Bjorn Brenner, a Middle East scholar at the Swedish Defense University, discusses his book Gaza Under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamic Governance.
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Women's Rights and Human Rights: Hand in Glove? from 2017-08-07T05:00
Professor Frances Raday, President of the Concord Research Center for Integration of International Law in Israel at the College of Management and a Special Rapporteur at the UN Human Rights Coun...
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Rebel Rousers: Why National Movements Fight from 2017-08-04T05:00
Dr. Peter Krause, a political scientist at Boston College, discusses his new book Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win, which offers a comparative look on the Alg...
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In God We Trust? The Sociology of Religion Revisited from 2017-07-31T05:00
Eileen Barker, professor emerita at the London School of Economics, is one of the world's leading sociologists of religion. Upon her visit to Israel, she speaks to the Tel Aviv Review about the ...
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Stripped: Citizenship in America and the Revocation Thereof from 2017-07-28T05:00
Dr. Ben Herzog, a lecturer in Israel Studies at Ben Gurion University, discusses his book Revoking Citizenship: Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror, and o...
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Peddlers on the Road: Patterns of Jewish Migration to the New World from 2017-07-24T05:00
Professor Hasia Diner, a world-renowned historian of Jewish-American history, discusses her latest book, Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migration to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged ...
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The Great Jewish-American Intellectual You Don't Know from 2017-07-21T05:00
Dr. Mark Raider, professor of history at the University of Cincinnati, discusses Hayim Greenberg, a legendary yet all but forgotten mid-20th century Jewish-American essayist and thinker. Dr. Rai...
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When in Romania, Do as the Romanian Jews from 2017-07-17T05:00
Dr. Felicia Waldman, a professor at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters and the author of "Tales and Traces of Sephardic Bucharest," discusses the history of Romanian Jewry on the c...
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The Menorah: A Most Emblematic Emblem from 2017-07-14T05:00
Steven Fine, a Jewish history professor at Yeshiva University and the author of "The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel," analyzes the twists and turns in the millennia-long history of the...
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The Lobbyist: Herbert Hoover and the Jews from 2017-07-10T05:00
Dr. Sonja Wentling, a professor of history at Concordia College in the US, is the co-author of Herbert Hoover and the Jews: The Origins of the ‘Jewish Vote’ and Bipartisan Support for Israel...
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Return to Former Glory: Sephardic Religious Culture in Israel from 2017-07-07T05:00
Dr. Joseph Ringel, a Jewish studies scholar at Northwestern University, discusses the links between halakha, politics, and culture among Sephardi religious leaders in Israel.
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Down and Out in Be'er Sheba and Afula from 2017-07-03T05:00
Orly Benjamin, a professor of sociology at Bar-Ilan University, discusses her new book Gendering Israel’s Outsourcing: The Erasure of Employees’ Caring Skills, which offers a feminist c...
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The Tel Aviv Review LIVE in New York: Timothy Snyder on Tyranny from 2017-06-30T05:00
Listen to a recording of Tel Aviv Review host Gilad Halpern interviewing Yale University's Professor Timothy Snyder about his New York Times number one bestselling book, "On Tyranny: Twenty Less...
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Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, v.2015 from 2017-06-26T05:00
When throngs of refugees poured into Europe in 2015, people wanted to help, but didn't know how. Holger Michel, a young German, decided to drop by a shelter and volunteer for a few hours. Immedi...
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Is a Peaceful Peace Process Born to Fail? from 2017-06-23T05:00
It is difficult to think of anything that has failed as often as the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Nathan Thrall of the International Crisis Group argues in his book, “The Only Language the...
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Romeo and Juliet Get Banned from 2017-06-19T05:00
Dorit Rabinyan's third novel about a stormy love between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man became a bestseller when Israel's Education Minister banned it from high school required reading l...
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Occupation: Happy Birthday to You from 2017-06-16T05:00
At the close of the 50th year since Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza and applied military rule over the people residing there, Gershon Shafir publishes a new book that not only documents t...
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The Middle East: Guide to the Perplexed from 2017-06-12T06:00
The giddy hopes of the Arab uprisings in 2011 have given way to resurgent authoritarian leadership in some states, while others are bleeding to death. These are not auspicious prospects for libe...
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Unchain My Heart: Shulem Deen's Breakaway From Radical Hasidism from 2017-06-09T05:00
Shulem Deen was raised in an ultra-orthodox sect, the Skverers, considered too extreme even for other Hasidic Jews. He grew up speaking Yiddish in the middle of New York, married in his teens an...
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No Occupation Without Annexation: Israel and the West Bank, 50 Years On from 2017-06-05T05:00
Dr. Omar Dajani, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Global Center for Business and Development at the University of the Pacific in California, analyzes Israel's ongoing seizure of the West ...
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Because It's There: Shifting Discourses in the 'Temple Mount Faithful' Movement from 2017-06-02T05:00
Dr. Shlomo Fischer, a sociologist of religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's School of Education, discusses the evolution of justifications presented by right-wing fringe groups who hav...
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American Exceptionalism: Why the Nazis Looked up to US Race Laws from 2017-05-29T07:23:05
Why did the Nazis admire America? Yale University law professor James Q. Whitman started out asking why Hitler in Mein Kampf, and other Nazis in the 1930s, referred to American legal precedents ...
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The New Sepharad: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Salonica from 2017-05-26T05:00
Jewish history professor Aron Rodrigue of at Stanford University was the keynote speaker at an international conference held this week at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, dedicated to the Jewi...
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Israel, Slipping Through my Fingers from 2017-05-22T05:00
Larry Derfner, a veteran American-Israeli journalist, discusses his new memoir No Country For Jewish Liberals, chronicling the twin ideological journey that he, as well as Israel, have ...
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Attempting to Solve the Scholem Enigma from 2017-05-19T05:00
Dr. Amir Engel, a lecturer in German language and literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of the newly published Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography, anal...
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First, Do No Harm: Rashid Khalidi on US Peace-Blocking from 2017-05-15T06:01:09
America has long been viewed as the quintessential broker of Israeli-Palestinian peace. In his book Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East, Columbia Unive...
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Portnoy and I: Philip Roth's Great American Moment from 2017-05-12T05:00
Bernard Avishai, an essayist and lecturer at Dartmouth College and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discusses his book Promiscuous: 'Portnoy's Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness...
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The Matriarchs: Russian, Palestinian and Jewish Mothers in Israel from 2017-05-08T07:05:24
Dr. Deborah Golden and Dr. Lauren Erdreich, anthropologists at the University of Haifa and the Levinsky College of Education, discuss their new book (co-authored with Dr. Sveta Roberman) Mot...
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Found in Translation: The Definitive SY Agnon, in English from 2017-05-05T13:00
Rabbi Jeffrey Saks, a series editor at the SY Agnon Library at Toby Press, discusses the soon-to-be completed 15-volume collection of stories by the famed Israeli author - some appearing in Engl...
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Ruth, a Leader of Biblical Magnitude from 2017-05-01T05:00
Dr. Yael Ziegler, an assistant professor of Bible at Herzog College and the Matan Institute, discusses her book Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy, which explores one of the Bible's most...
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Shake It up Baby Now: On the Intersection Between Dance and Politics from 2017-04-28T05:00
Dr. Dana Mills, a political and cultural theorist, discusses her groundbreaking book Dance and Politics: Moving Beyond Boundaries, which seeks to analyze dance as primarily a political ...
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The Plight of 'Post-Ethnic' Young Israelis from 2017-04-24T13:00
Dr. Talia Sagiv, a sociologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discusses her book On the Fault Line: Israelis of Mixed Ethnicity that focuses on Israelis of both Ashkenazi and Sep...
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Zionism, Apartheid, Blackface: Africa in Israeli Culture from 2017-04-21T05:00
Dr. Eitan Bar-Yosef of the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and author of A Villa in the Jungle: Africa in Israeli culture, talks ...
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We Were the Future Once: The Youth of 1948 from 2017-04-17T10:45:34
Noemi Schlosser, playwright and director, discusses her forthcoming documentary film The Youth of 1948, which seeks to document and tell the personal stories of the last remaining survi...
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Is Israel Really Unfairly Singled out in the Western Media? from 2017-04-14T05:00
Dr. Elad Segev of Tel Aviv University's Department of Communication discusses his recent studies, which have sought to establish whether Israel is really unfairly singled out in the Western medi...
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Occupier's Liability: International Law of Occupation Revisited from 2017-04-10T05:00
Professor Aeyal Gross of Tel Aviv University's law school discusses his new book The Writing on the Wall: Rethinking the International Law of Occupation, and explains how classic catego...
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The Name is Azoulay, Yael Azoulay from 2017-04-07T05:00
Adam LeBor, a journalist and author, discusses his new spy thriller novels featuring UN secret agent and former Israeli spy Yael Azoulay, the so-called "Israeli female James Bond."
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Portrait of the Intellectual as a Young German Woman from 2017-04-03T05:00
Dr. Olga Kirschbaum, a historian (PhD NYU) discusses the intellectual networks of Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, during her professional coming of age in th...
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Japan During WW2: A Classic Case of Anti-Semitism Without Jews from 2017-03-31T05:00
Professor Meron Medzini, a Japanologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses his new book Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Japan and the Jews during the Holocaust Era. Listen
Whose World Heritage? De-politicizing Archaeology in Jerusalem from 2017-03-26T11:08:56
Yonathan Mizrachi, director of Emek Shaveh, a Jerusalem-based organization that undertakes to “prevent the politicization of archaeology in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and t...
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From Revolution to Constitution: Law and politics in Egypt since 2011 from 2017-03-24T07:00
Dr. Heather McRobie, a post-doctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University's law school, specializes in Egypt's constitutional law, which went into overdrive in the wake of President Hosni Mubarak's ous...
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Activism and Its Discontents: A 35-Year Journey Along the Seam from 2017-03-20T12:46:20
Sarah Kreimer, a veteran Israeli-American activist, has just published her memoir Vision and Division in Israel: My Journey Along the Seam, which offers valuable insight into the feats ...
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Weather permitting: Dealing with climate change in a divided Middle East from 2017-03-15T09:05:59
Nir Stav, the director of the Israel Meteorological Service, lays out the challenges imposed on the Middle East , and discusses how different countries should be - and already are - coping...
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Death of a statesman: Yitzhak Rabin and the end of an Israeli era from 2017-03-13T06:00
Professor Itamar Rabinovich, the president of the Israel Institute, former president of Tel Aviv University and Yitzhak Rabin's ambassador to the United States and chief negotiator with Syria, d...
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Zionism as a Vocation: Ahad Ha'am and the Legacy of Cultural Zionism from 2017-03-10T06:00
Dr. Brian Klug, a senior research fellow in Philosophy at St. Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford, discusses his new book Words of Fire: Ahad Ha'am and the Jewish Future, a collection of...
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Jaffa, the crux of co-existence? from 2017-03-06T14:11:22
Professor Daniel Monterescu, a professor of anthropology at the Central European University in Budapest and a visiting professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion ...
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Adieu, Jews: France and North Africa under the Nazi occupation from 2017-03-03T06:00
Dr. Daniel Lee, a historian of the Second World War at the University of Sheffield, discusses the unusual case of Jews in metropolitan France and its North African colonies after the 1940 defeat...
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Kafka in the West Bank: The bureaucracy of the occupation from 2017-02-27T13:54:11
Dr. Yael Berda, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, discusses her for...
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Armenia's 30-year genocide from 2017-02-24T06:00
Professor Benny Morris, one of the foremost historians of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has ventured into a new territory. He discusses his forthcoming book that analyzes the Ottoman Empire'...
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Going south: Movement and social upheaval in the Confederate States from 2017-02-20T06:00
Dr. Yael Sternhell, lecturer in American history at Tel Aviv University, discusses her book Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South, and analyzes the interplay bet...
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Russian renaissance: Jewish renewal in post-Soviet Russia from 2017-02-17T06:00
Dr. Simon Parizhsky, a Jewish literature scholar and program director at Moscow's Eshkolot Center, busts a few myths about the "Dark Ages" of the Soviet Union and the "enlightenment" of the post...
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Rule or exception? The political and legal implications of emergencies from 2017-02-13T06:00
Dr. Karin Loevy, a legal scholar at New York University and the author of the recently published Emergencies in Public Law: The Legal Politics of Containment, and Dr. Yoav Mehozay, a so...
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Bridges over troubled water: Literary translations as basis of binationalism from 2017-02-10T06:00
Yehuda Shenhav, professor of sociology at Tel Aviv University and editor-in-chief of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute's Maktoob Book Series for Translations from Arabic, discusses how literary t...
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What did Jewish rituals look like 2,000 years ago? from 2017-02-06T10:45:21
Robert Goldenberg, Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies at Stony Brook University in New York, discusses the Jewish rituals of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and why a practicing Jew today w...
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Proto-Mizrahim: Oriental Jews and Arabs in pre-state Israel from 2017-02-03T06:00
Dr. Abigail Jacobson, a Middle East historian and Academic Director of the Mediterranean Neighbors unit at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and Dr. Moshe Naor of the department of Israel Studie...
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Russell's teapot and kiddush cup: Between Jewish and Western philosophies from 2017-01-30T09:54:27
Orthodox rabbi, Jewish educator and philosopher Dr. Sam Lebens who specializes in, among other things, Bertrand Russell's thought, talks about his eclectic borrowing from the two traditions in h...
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Tel Aviv Review Extra: US Jews and Israel in the age of Trump from 2017-01-27T06:00
In the footsteps of the 'Jewish Dickens' from 2017-01-23T06:00
Dr. Nadia Valman, a literary historian teaching at Queen Mary, University of London, talks about her newly developed walking tour app exploring the history of Jewish east London through the work...
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Once more with neshama: The art of Jewish theater from 2017-01-20T06:00
Aaron Henne, the artistic director of Theatre Dybbuk in Los Angeles, discusses the creative process of adapting Jewish texts for the stage and making this art palatable to a wide audience.
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Missionary positions: What the Talmud says about sex from 2017-01-16T06:00
Maggie Anton, a Talmud scholar and historical fiction writer discusses her new book Fifty Shades of Talmud: What the First Rabbis Had to Say about You-Know-What.
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A different kind of Tzedakah: Organ donation in Jewish law from 2017-01-13T06:00
Zev Farber, a rabbi and Hebrew Bible scholar, discusses his latest book Halakhic Realities: Collected Essays on Brain Death and the forthcoming sequel Halakhic Realities: Collected ...
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The 11th lost tribe: Tales of Jewish Sudan from 2017-01-09T09:30:27
Daisy Abboudi, a historian of the Jewish community of Sudan, recounts the little known history of a small and short-lived Jewish presence in northeast Africa.
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Hasidism 2.0: Breslav and the secret of its newfound appeal from 2017-01-06T18:24:15
Rabbi Professor Art Green, the founder and current rector of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School in Boston, discusses the Hasidic sect that in the space of just several decades has become a maj...
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The glass mechitza: Fighting for women's rights, from the courthouse to shul from 2017-01-02T08:39:14
Ariela Migdal, a women's rights lawyer formerly with the American Civil Liberties Union, analyzes the status of women in the United States and within the Jewish community through some of the cas...
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The last fight let us face: Israeli communist commemoration of Spain's civil war from 2016-12-30T07:00
Indecision makers: How Israel forces asylum seekers into legal limbo from 2016-12-26T05:00
Lies, damned lies and scholarship from 2016-12-23T05:00
Israel's grand economic reform that never was from 2016-12-19T13:00
Dr. Ronen Mendelkern, a political economist at Tel Aviv University, discusses the 1962 New Economic Policy - a plan that sought to liberalize the highly interventionist Israeli economy of the ti...
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Retracing Zionism's liberal roots from 2016-12-16T05:00
Professor Chaim Gans, a legal and political philosopher at Tel Aviv University, discusses his new book A Political Theory for the Jewish People, which seeks to pave a liberal third way ...
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Back when Harlem was Jewish from 2016-12-12T15:00
Two Jewish communities separated by a common affinity for Israel from 2016-12-09T07:00
The faith equation: Are secularism and scientific progress inextricably intertwined? from 2016-12-04T08:19:32
Sunshine state: The case for renewable energy in Israel from 2016-12-02T05:00
Esperanto: Undoing the curse of Babel from 2016-11-28T05:00
What have the Romans ever done for us? from 2016-11-25T05:00
Rabbi Burton Visotzky, Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies at the Jewish Theological Center in New York, discusses his new book "Aphrodite and the Rabbi: How Jews Adapted Roman Cultu...
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Women on a mission: Tackling gender inequality in Israel from 2016-11-21T05:00
Kids from hell: Early Holocaust testimonies of Child Survivors from 2016-11-18T05:00
Occupational hazards: Moral numbing among Israeli soldiers in the West Bank from 2016-11-14T05:00
Dr. Erella Grassiani, an anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam, discusses her new book Soldiering the Occupation: Processes of Numbing among Israeli Soldiers in the Al Aqsa Intifada,...
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Pax Britannica? The troubled legacy of Sykes-Picot from 2016-11-11T05:00
History Professor Wm. Roger Louis of the University of Texas at Austin, a world-renowned expert in British imperial history, discusses the repercussions of two WWI British foreign policy decisio...
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Make yourselves at home: The integration of immigrants in the new Israeli state from 2016-11-07T01:00
Dr. Orit Rozin, professor of Jewish history at Tel Aviv University, is the author of the newly published A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights and National Identity in the New Israeli Sta...
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Sorely missed? Martin Buber's sociology under scrutiny from 2016-11-04T01:00
Prof. Uri Ram, a sociologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and author of the recently published The Return of Martin Buber: National and Social Thought in Israel from Buber ...
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Carlo Ginzburg on the past, present and future of history from 2016-10-30T13:24:58
Professor Carlo Ginzburg, one of the greatest historians of our time, is in Israel this week participating in an event at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute marking the 100th birthday of his mothe...
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The greatest of a generation: Rabbi Soloveitchik revisited from 2016-10-28T01:00
Prof. William Kolbrener, professor of English literature at Bar-Ilan University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his recently published book The Last Rabbi: Joseph Soloveitchik and the Tal...
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Is conflict management sustainable? Lessons for Israel-Palestine from Cyprus from 2016-10-24T08:00
Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin, policy fellow at Mitvim - The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies, discusses parallels between the ong...
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Global democracy: The future of international relations? from 2016-10-21T08:00
Oded Gilad, the director of the newly founded One World - The Movement for Global Democracy, explains to host Gilad Halpern how shortc...
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Violence and politics: The underpinnings of conflict from 2016-10-17T08:30
Prof. Lev Grinberg is a sociologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and a visiting lecturer at Dartmouth College in the United States. He discusses with host Gilad Halpern his book Pol...
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The startup lab: Israel's culture of science from 2016-10-14T10:38:37
Gad Yair is a professor of sociology and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He discusses with host Gilad Halpern his forthcoming book The Unruly Mind, which analyzes how -...
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Creeping Israeliness: Law and citizenship in the settlement of Ariel from 2016-10-10T10:36:47
Dr. Yarden Enav, an anthropologist at Israel's Open University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his book Israeliness in No Man's Land: Citizenship in the West Bank of Israel/Palestine...
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The Baha'i: Yet another world religion based in the Holy Land from 2016-10-07T07:28:17
Dr. D Gershon Lewental, an Israel Studies professor at the University of Oklahoma, gives host Gilad Halpern an overview of the Baha'i religion - an offshoot of Shi'a Islam that set up shop in th...
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Academic boycotts of Israel - why all the fuss? from 2016-10-02T09:23:03
Prof. Zvi Ziegler is Professor Emeritus of mathematics at the Technion and Chairman of the Israeli inter-university forum to combat academic boycotts. He assesses with host Gilad Halpern the thr...
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When Israel's "demographic time bomb" started ticking from 2016-09-30T07:27:26
Nimrod Lin, a doctoral fellow in history at the University of Toronto, tracks back the emergence of the demographic discourse in Zionism. He discusses with host Gilad Halpern how, at different s...
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Members of a Tribe: The evolution of Israel's Jewish-Ethiopian immigration policy from 2016-09-26T12:49:35
Meital Regev, a doctoral fellow at the archaeology and land of Israel studies department at Bar-Ilan University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern Israel's sometimes ambivalent attitude towards ...
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Edifying Zionism: Richard Kaufman, a pioneering architect from 2016-09-23T05:47:38
Prof. Michael Levin is a historian of architecture at Shenkar College for Engineering, Art and Design, and co-editor of Richard Kaufmann and the Zionist Project. He discusses with host ...
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ISIS: The old-new face of radical Islam from 2016-09-19T14:14:46
Dr. Ori Goldberg, a scholar of political Islam and lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, analyzes with host Gilad Halpern the novelty of the Islamic State group. Dr. Goldberg exp...
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The cost of energetic independence: Israel's natural gas challenges from 2016-09-16T11:13:34
Gabriel Mitchell, a doctoral fellow in government and international affairs at the University of Virginia Tech, discusses with host Gilad Halpern how Israel balances security interests and econo...
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Welcome to Slovakia's 'Jewish Pompeii' from 2016-09-12T09:45:21
After the fall of Communism, photographer Yuri Dojc returned to his native Slovakia to document the country's Jewish community, which remained intact in every respect except one: Its people. Doj...
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Left out: The rise of the Israeli right from 2016-09-09T09:27:17
Colin Shindler, professor emeritus of Israel Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his book The Rise of the Israeli Right: From O...
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No place like home: Israel's pioneering community research from 2016-09-05T15:13:10
Dr. Sara Shadmi-Wortman, chair of the community research and action programs at Oranim Academic College, discusses with host Gilad Halpern how the community - an ostensibly invisible social stru...
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The gatekeepers: Israel's supreme court in a changing reality from 2016-09-02T08:00
Prof. Mohammed Wattad, a legal scholar at the University of California at Irvine and Zefat Academic College in Israel, explores with host Gilad Halpern the cultural and professional orientation ...
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Shalom/Salam: On the benefits and limitations of bilingual education from 2016-08-29T14:53:01
Dr. Merav Ben-Nun, a lecturer at Oranim Academic College of Education and the founding principal of Haifa's first Jewish-Arab school, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the hopes and frustrations...
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Yad Vashem with an air force: "Hegemonic victimhood" in Israel from 2016-08-26T08:00
Ilan Peleg, a professor of government, law and Israel Studies at Lafayette College, analyzes with host Gilad Halpern the recent shift in Israel's hegemonic discourse from confident self-reliance...
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Verses of coexistence: Teaching poetry in a region of conflict from 2016-08-22T09:24:02
Dr. Rachel Back, a poet, translator and lecturer in English literature at Oranim Academic College for Education, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the overlap between poetry, education and progr...
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East is East: Cosmopolitanism and Levantinism in Mizrahi thought from 2016-08-19T09:52:20
Zachary Smith, a doctoral fellow in political science at the University of Pennsylvania, analyzes with host Gilad Halpern the critique leveled at the two pillars of classic Zionism - rootedness ...
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Druze and don'ts: The integration of an indigenous community in modern Israel from 2016-08-15T11:04:16
Prof. William Miles, a political scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the challenges 21st-century Israel poses to the Druze - a largely integrationis...
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Empire state builders: Architects of modern Jerusalem from 2016-08-12T08:00
Adina Hoffman, an Israeli-American writer, critic and essayist, discusses with host Gilad Halpern her new book Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City, which tells the st...
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The Iron Lady of the Orient from 2016-08-08T18:26:37
Dr. Azriel Bermant, a historian and international relations professor at Tel Aviv University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his book Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East, exploring...
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Jo'burg on the Mediterranean: South African migration to Israel from 2016-08-05T08:00
Prof. Rebeca Raijman, a sociologist at the University of Haifa, discusses with host Gilad Halpern her book South African Jews in Israel: Assimilation in Multigenerational Perspective, h...
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The burden of spoof: Satire in pre-state Israel from 2016-08-01T10:52:58
Dr. Leah Gilula, a theater studies scholar, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the limits of satirical plays during the British Mandate period, and their contribution to the creation of a homegro...
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Continuation of policy by other means: Israel and the two-state solution from 2016-07-29T10:56:43
Dr. Guy Ziv, an assistant professor of international relations at the American University in Washington, DC, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the evolution of peacemaking policies among Israel'...
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Liberty&justice for most: American views on treatment of Israeli Arabs from 2016-07-25T12:46:18
Geoffrey Levin, a doctoral student in the Departments of History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern how Jewish Americans viewed Israel's trea...
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How do you co-opt Jews in Russian? from 2016-07-22T10:58:32
Kathryn David, a fellow at New York University's Jordan Center for Advanced Study of Russia, discusses with host Gilad Halpern how Jews and anti-Semitism have been utilized in the media war betw...
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Yom Kippur War: Anatomy of a (not so) missed opportunity from 2016-07-18T11:21:59
Prof. David Tal, a historian of the Arab-Israeli conflict at the University of Sussex, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the commonly-held belief that Israel could have avoided the devastating Y...
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A fistful of shekels: Ideology and symbolism in Israeli Westerns from 2016-07-15T08:00
Dr. Rachel Harris, an associate professor of Israeli literature and culture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, sits down with host Gilad Halpern to put the spotlight on a relativ...
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Post-anti-Zionism: US Trotskyites and the Jewish state from 2016-07-11T12:40:08
Dr. Tony Michels, a historian of American Jewry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the changing attitudes of (predominantly Jewish) American Marxists towar...
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Multimedia Israel: New methods of teaching Zionism from 2016-07-08T08:00
Dr. Shira Klein, a historian at Chapman University in California, discusses with host Gilad Halpern new approaches to teaching the complexities of Israel to American undergraduate students.
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Grey-haired mentors: How grandparents reinvigorated politics from 2016-07-04T13:43
Dr. Ariela Keysar, a demographer at Trinity College, Connecticut, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the oft-ignored role of grandparents in shaping college students' political worldview.
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Strategic culture: The thing national security is made of from 2016-07-01T06:17:35
Dr. Tamir Libel, a research fellow at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI), explains to host Gilad Halpern what "strategic culture" is and how it affects policy-making in the ...
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Desired destination: Palestine from 2016-06-27T10:31:21
Dr. Uta Larkey, professor of German and the Director of the Center for the Study of Modern Languages at Goucher College in the United States, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the migration patt...
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Hold your noses: Floor crossing, coalition shopping&politicking in Israel from 2016-06-24T18:19:25
Prof. Csaba Nikolenyi, a political scientist at Concordia University in Canada and the director of the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies there, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the effects of...
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Strange bedfellows: Religious belief in the age of reason from 2016-06-20T07:04:53
Sam Fleischacker, a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his latest book The Good and the Good Book, which seeks to establ...
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The opening of the Jewish-American mind from 2016-06-17T09:00
Prof. Dov Waxman, a political science, international affairs and Israel Studies scholar at Northeastern University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his new book Trouble in the Tribe: The A...
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The 11th century Islamic modernist who preceded modernity from 2016-06-13T15:55:02
Aram Abu Saleh, a student at Jerusalem's Israel Arts and Science Academy, is the recipient of the Van Leer award for outstanding essays written by high school students. He talks to host Gilad Ha...
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Literature as a gateway to Zionism from 2016-06-10T05:48:06
Prof. Russell Berman, a literary scholar at Stanford University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the pedagogic rationale behind his undergraduate seminar "Zionism and the Novel," and how a cri...
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New Shtetls: Radical ultra-Orthodoxy in the 20th century from 2016-06-06T14:20:38
Prof. Motti Inbari, a religions scholar at the University of North Carolina Pembroke, is the author of the new book Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women's Eq...
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Reimagining modernity: Crisis as the genesis of progress from 2016-06-03T09:00
Prof. Chandra Mukerji, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Communication and Science Studies at the University of California San Diego, is the author of the forthcoming book Reimagining Mo...
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Out of the ivory tower: Academia thrust into 21st century from 2016-05-30T09:00
Host Gilad Halpern speaks to Prof. Gili Drori, head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and co-chair of the international conference "Internati...
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Israel, an African Queen from 2016-05-27T10:00
Prof. Haim Yacobi, a political geographer at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, is the author of the recently published Israel and Africa: A Genealogy of Moral Geography (the Hebrew ve...
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Troubled communities: Which nations are prone to existential angst? from 2016-05-23T08:40:28
Dr. Uriel Abulof, a political scientist at Tel Aviv University, is the author of the new book The Mortality and Morality of Nations. He discusses with host Gilad Halpern the three case ...
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Dig this: Community archaeology in Israel from 2016-05-20T10:00
Dr. Itzick Shai, an archaeologist and lecturer in Israeli heritage at Ariel University, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the excavation of Tel Burna, in the coastal lowlands in southwestern Isr...
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The Shamrock and Star of David: Irish and Jewish nationalisms from 2016-05-16T11:40:25
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Karaites: The first Jewish fundamentalists from 2016-05-13T11:00
Prof. Meira Polliack of the Department of Bible Studies at Tel Aviv University discusses with host Gilad Halpern the conceptual and theological exchanges between Islam and Judaism in the 9th and...
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Israeli idols: Neo-paganism in the Jewish state from 2016-05-09T10:25:39
Shai Ferraro, a religions scholar at Tel Aviv University, explores with host Gilad Halpern the emergence of pagan rituals in contemporary Israel against the backdrop of Judaism's acrimonious rel...
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Women of valor: The forgotten history of women in Zionism from 2016-05-06T11:00
Dr. Esther Carmel-Hakim, a historian of Zionism at the University of Haifa, explores with host Gilad Halpern the central role women played in the Jewish national movement from its early stages, ...
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Free spirits: New Age culture in Israel from 2016-05-02T12:28:32
Dr. Rachel Werczberger, an anthropologist, religious scholar, and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, explores with host Gilad Halpern the recent evolution of new forms of sp...
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Desert eagles: American foreign policy in the Middle East from 2016-04-29T11:00
Joel Migdal, professor of international studies at the University of Washington, is the author of the recently published Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East. He offers ...
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Gender segregation at Israeli beaches: How did it all start? from 2016-04-25T11:00
Dr. Shayna Weiss, a Jewish history scholar and post-doctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University, traces with host Gilad Halpern the origin of gender segregation at beaches in Tel Aviv, and the surpri...
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In Philip Roth's shadow: Sayed Kashua's 'authorial network' from 2016-04-22T11:00
Dr. David Hadar, a literary scholar and post-doctoral fellow at the Open University, analyzes with host Gilad Halpern the influence, overt and covert, of the Jewish-American novelist on the much...
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Between Tel Aviv and Moscow: A story of Zionism, Communism and disillusionment from 2016-04-18T05:39:07
Dr. Nir Arielli, a lecturer in international history and politics at the University of Leeds, UK, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the tumultuous life of his great aunt, Leah Trachtman-Palchan,...
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Postwar justice, Soviet style from 2016-04-15T11:00
Dr. Dina Moyal, a historian specializing in the legal history of the Soviet Union, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the trials of Nazi criminals and collaborators in the Soviet Union during and...
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The decline and fall of the kibbutz: An appreciation from 2016-04-10T22:00
Host Gilad Halpern and Professor Yaarah Bar-On; the President of Oranim Teachers College and a historian of the kibbutz movement, analyse the crisis that has all but decimated the once illustrio...
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We have come to make the desert fiscally stable from 2016-04-06T08:26:51
Dr Daniel Schiffman, an economic historian and a senior lecturer in the department of Economics and Business Administration at Ariel University, is the co-author of the forthcoming book Econ...
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Ze'ev Jabotinbsky: A maverick Zionist for his life from 2016-04-04T11:36:51
Host Gilad Halpern talks to Brian Horowitz, professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans, and the co-editor of the recently published Story of My Life, the first of t...
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Damned to be blessed: Jewish exile as a metaphor from 2016-04-01T13:00
Host Gilad Halpern and Vivian Liska, professor of German literature and the director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, discuss one of the themes featuring...
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The two-state delusion: A coroner's report of a defunct solution from 2016-03-28T07:09:06
Padraig O'Malley, professor of peace and reconciliation at the University of Massachusetts and author of the recently published The Two State Delusion: Israel Palestine - A Tale of Two Narra...
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Sovereignty in exile: the curious case of Kiryas Yoel from 2016-03-25T09:29:03
Explore the Hassidic settlement of Kiryas Yoel, in upstate New York, which offers a unique insight into questions of diaspora and sovereignty.
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The new left: Zionist youth movements in 1960s America from 2016-03-21T10:53:14
Dr. Tal Elmaliach, a historian of Zionism at the University of Wisconsin, discusses with host Gilad Halpern how Zionist youth movements played an increasingly significant role in redefining Amer...
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Occidentalism: Travels and migration in Arabic literature from 2016-03-17T12:25:33
Dr. Ariel Sheetrit, a lecturer in Arabic language and literature at the Ben-Gurion of the Negev and in Arab film at the Open University, is the coordinator of the research group at the Van Leer ...
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A brief history of British Jewry from 2016-03-14T11:38:36
Dr. Sharman Kadish, a historian of British Jewry and founding director of the charity Jewish Heritage UK, takes host Gilad Halper...
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Know thine enemy: Zionism in Arab discourses from 2016-03-10T16:29:34
Prof. Uriya Shavit of the Arabic and Islamic Studies department at Tel Aviv University and the author of the recently published Zionism in Arab Discourses, explores the complex attitude...
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Britain's moment in Palestine: Dreams, politics&damage control from 2016-03-07T17:00
Prof. Michael J Cohen, a Professor Emeritus of History at Bar-Ilan University, is the author of the recently published Britain's Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspective. Talking...
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A specter haunting Europe: Between Jewish past and Muslim present from 2016-03-04T17:00
Prof. Amikam Nachmani, a political scientist at Bar-Ilan University, is studying Europe's encounter with its Muslim immigrants in the 21st century. He tells host Gilad Hapern how this is not a b...
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People of the visitor book: Commemorative practices in Jerusalem's war museum from 2016-02-29T08:41:53
Prof. Chaim Noy is a professor of communications at the University of South Florida and the author of a new book Thank You For Dying for Our Country: Commemorative Texts and Performances in ...
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The Israeli melting pot: A grassroots perspective from 2016-02-26T17:00
Dr. Anat Helman, a professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of the new book Becoming Israeli: National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s. She...
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A program like no other: What Birthright Israel does right from 2016-02-22T07:19:12
Prof. Leonard Saxe, a sociologist and professor of contemporary Jewish Studies at Brandeis University, is a world-renowned expert on Birthright Israel, the program that has brought hundreds of t...
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Many types of belonging: New historiography of Mideastern Jews from 2016-02-19T17:00
Prof. Orit Bashkin, a Middle East scholar at the University of Chicago, talks to host Gilad Halpern about her original perspective on the history of Jews in the Levant and Egypt, which transcend...
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Just a very naughty boy: Sabbatai Zevi and C17th Jewish messianism from 2016-02-15T11:43:29
Dor Saar, a historian of Judaism at Tel Aviv University, discusses the curious case of a 17th-century Jewish theologian and mysticist called Abraham Miguel Cardoso, one of the principal backers ...
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Weimar in Jerusalem: Is Israel on a slippery slope to fascism? from 2016-02-12T08:26:46
Prof. Moshe Zimmermann, a historian of modern Germany at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, attempts to draw lessons from the fragile and divided German democracy of the early 1930s for today's...
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Cyriac of Ancona, Europe's first archaeologist from 2016-02-08T13:15:59
Dr. Adar Yarum, an art historian at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the life and journals of Cyriac (Ciriaco) of Ancona, a 15th century traveler credited wi...
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No laughing matter: What studying humor can teach us about life from 2016-02-05T17:00
Prof. Arie Sover, the founding chair of the Israeli Society for the Study of Humor, dissects with host Gilad Halpern the ins and outs of his field, in an Israeli and a global context, ahead of t...
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Love in the time of cholera: Three decades of Spanish-Israeli relations from 2016-02-01T15:22:04
Prof. Raanan Rein, a historian of Spain and Latin America and Vice-President of Tel Aviv University, explores the tumultuous relationship between Israel and Spain before and after diplomatic rel...
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Anti-clockwise: Time and modernity in the late Ottoman Empire from 2016-01-29T07:38:36
Dr. Avner Wishnitzer, senior lecturer in Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University, is the author of the recently published Reading Clocks Alla Turca: Time and Society in the...
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Higher, faster, stronger? 'Hitler's Olympiad' and the Yishuv from 2016-01-25T08:06
Ofer Idels, a doctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University's Department of History, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the heated debate that swept the Jewish community in Palestine ahead of the 1936 O...
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Chaim Weizmann: A statesman, a scientist from 2016-01-22T07:11:22
Prof. Benjamin Z. Kedar, Professor Emeritus of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and former Vice-President of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, talks to host Gilad Halp...
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Exporting the occupation: How Israel gains clout on the back of the Palestinians from 2016-01-15T17:00
Prof. Jeff Halper, an anthropologist and human rights activist, talks to host Gilad Halpern about his latest book, War Against the People; Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification Listen
The public intellectual and Jewish philosophy from 2016-01-13T07:24:22
Zev Harvey, professor emeritus of Jewish philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the life and opinions of Prof. Aviezer Ravitzky, one of Israel's fore...
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Why hawks become doves: The Shimon Peres case study from 2016-01-11T14:42:43
Dr. Guy Ziv, an international relations professor at the American University in Washington, DC, is the author of the recently published Why Hawks Become Doves: Shimon Peres and Foreign Polic...
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The curious case of Sharia courts in the Jewish state from 2016-01-08T17:00
Dr. Ido Shahar, a lecturer in Middle East history at the University of Haifa, is the author of the recently published Legal Pluralism in the Holy City: Competing Courts, Forum Shopping and I...
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The Israeli vernacular&the limits of education from 2016-01-04T10:30:16
Prof. Ghil'ad Zuckermann, a professor of linguistics at the University of Adelaide in Australia, and Dr. Gitit Holzmann, a lecturer in Jewish philosophy at the Levinsky Teachers' College in Tel ...
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How Kabbalah shaped Judaism as we know it from 2016-01-01T07:59:05
Dr. Roni Weinstein, a historian of Judaism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explores with host Gilad Halpern the origins of Jewish mysticism (in 16th and 17th century Palestine), which inf...
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How the "Schindler of Vilnius" saved my life from 2015-12-28T15:44:11
Holocaust survivor Simon Malkes has dedicated his recently published memoirs to the man who saved him, a Nazi officer called Karl Plagge, for whom he lobbied Listen
Civil religion, Israel style: Independence Day case study from 2015-12-25T17:00
Adi Sherzer, a doctoral fellow at the Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, explores with host Gilad Halpern the construction of the Isr...
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A land flowing with milk and honey... and water? from 2015-12-19T17:00
Dr. Orli Sela, an environmental and legal historian at New York University, explores the evolution of the perception of water abundance and its place in the state building effort, before and aft...
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Enlightenment and its discontents: The French-Jewish critique from 2015-12-18T10:48:58
Dr. Rony Klein, professor of political philosophy at Tel Aviv University specializing in French political thought, explores how late 20th century Jewish philosophers posed a challenge to the ide...
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Move over, Tony Soprano: Jewish underworld in Interwar Poland from 2015-12-12T17:00
Dr. Aviva Tal, professor of Yiddish literature at Bar-Ilan University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the forgotten history of Jewish criminality in the early 20th century, and how central it...
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Global memory culture: From Hiroshima to Auschwitz from 2015-12-11T17:00
Dr. Ran Zwigenberg, professor of history and Asian studies at Pennsylvania State University and author of the recently published Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture, explore...
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Fidelity issues: The story of an Israeli traitor from 2015-12-05T17:00
Dr. Hadas Cohen, a post-doctoral fellow at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin, discusses with host Gilad Halpern her analysis of the construction of Israeli identity through transgress...
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Religion in conflict resolution: Liability or asset? from 2015-12-04T17:00
Dr. Yakir Englander, a Jewish philosophy scholar at Harvard University and expert on interfaith dialogue, both as an activist and a scholar, reviews with host Gilad Halpern the role of religion ...
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A shot heard around Israel: The sociology of Rabin's assassination from 2015-11-28T17:00
Dr. Ido Yoav, a sociologist and anthropologist at Sapir College, joins host Gilad Halpern to analyze the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, on its 20th anniversary, through the persp...
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Oh captain, our captain: Walt Whitman's influence on Jewish-American poetry from 2015-11-27T17:00
Dr. Dara Barnat, a poet and culture scholar at Tel Aviv University, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the universal message of the great 19th-century American poet, and how it influenced future ...
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The building blocks of conflict: Architecture and ideology in Israel/Palestine from 2015-11-21T17:00
Dr. Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, historian of architecture at Sapir Academic College and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the post-colonial perspective she espous...
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Israel for American eyes: Cross-cultural 'adaptation' of Israeli literature from 2015-11-20T17:00
Dr. Omri Asscher, head of the Translation Diploma Track at Beit Berl College and a post-doctoral fellow at the Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies and the State of Israel at the Univers...
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Stories and histories: 150 years of micro-history in Israel from 2015-11-14T17:00
Dr. Boaz Lev Tov, academic director of the Time Tunnel at Beit Berl College, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the benefits of oral history in understanding the lives and interactions of ordinar...
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The year the Israeli-Arab conflict officially began from 2015-11-13T17:00
Prof. Hillel Cohen, a Middle East historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of the newly published 1929: Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. He talks to host Gi...
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And the Lord said to Moses (thought bubble) from 2015-11-07T17:00
Assaf Gamzou, curator at the Israeli Cartoon Museum in Holon, gives host Gilad Halpern a review of a new exhibition that tells the Bible stories in caricatures, and ponders the link between cart...
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To be unfruitful: Childlessness among Jewish men from 2015-11-06T17:00
Elliot Jager, journalist, political scientist, and commentator, is the author of the recently published The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My Childlessness. He takes host Gilad Halpern t...
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Einstein: Genius, thought leader, cultural icon from 2015-11-03T11:39:28
Prof. Steven Gimbel, philosopher of science at Gettysburg College in the United States, is the author of the recently published Einstein: His Space and Time. He analyzes with host Gilad...
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'Year Zero' of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from 2015-11-03T11:14:29
Prof. Monty Noam Penkower, Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, is the author of Palestine in Turmoil: The Struggle for S...
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How the music you choose to drive to can save your life from 2015-10-24T16:00
Prof. Warren Brodsky, a music psychologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and author of the recently published Driving With Music: Cognitive-Behavioral Implications, explains to ...
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Dad, and another one: Gay parenthood in Israel from 2015-10-23T16:00
Dr. Adi Moreno, a sociologist at the University of Manchester in the UK, studies how the increasing phenomenon of gay couples starting families affects preconceptions about family and continuity...
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You say propaganda, I say hasbara from 2015-10-17T16:00
Dr. Ron Schleifer, head of the Center for Defense and Communication at Ariel University and author of Psychological Warfare in the Arab-Israeli Conflict talks to host Gilad Halpern abou...
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Till death do us part: Prehistoric&contemporary cemeteries in Israel from 2015-10-10T16:00
Dr. Assaf Nativ, post-doctoral fellow in archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of Prioritizing Death and Society: The Archaeology of Chalcolithic and Contemporary ...
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Shared values, shared interests: Israel in US political culture from 2015-09-26T16:00
Dr. Jonathan Rynhold is a political scientist at Bar-Ilan University and the author of a new book The Arab-Israeli Conflict in American Political Culture, Listen
Birth of the Palestinian refugee relief problem from 2015-09-25T06:41:06
Dr. Asaf Romirowsky, a fellow at the Middle East Forum, has co-authored a new book Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief. He talks to host Gilad Halpern about ...
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Post-Zionism retold: For the establishment of an Israeli Republic from 2015-09-18T16:00
Dr. Moshe Berent, a political scientist at the Ope...
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Occupation Studies: Theorizing and analyzing a new reality from 2015-09-11T16:00
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Bread and circuses: Reality TV and the boundaries of artistic quality from 2015-08-13T14:18:20
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Palestine in ruins: Israel and the depopulated villages of 1948 from 2015-08-13T14:00:09
Noga Kadman, an Israeli researcher and tour guide, recentl...
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The step-sister of Yiddish culture: Judeo-Arabic literature in Tunisia from 2015-08-07T15:56:57
Prof. Yosef Toby, professor emeritus of Medieval Hebrew poetry at the University of Haifa, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the cultural golden age of Tunisian Jews, and their being torn betwee...
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A personal look into Israel's Iron Lady from 2015-08-02T10:20:41
Professor Meron Medzini, a Japanologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem but also, perhaps surprisingly, a biographer of Golda Meir, the prime minister of Israel between 1969-1974 - our ver...
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Israel in Theory: "Israel fetish" in Western academia from 2015-07-24T05:58:10
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Are Jews really smarter? from 2015-07-09T13:19:50
Dr. Paul Shrell-Fox, a rabbi and psychologist at the...
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My life as an Israeli in an Indian reservation from 2015-07-09T13:19:20
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Traveling sales boys: Palestinian 'children of the junction' from 2015-06-26T10:48:45
Omri Grinberg, an anthropologist at the University o...
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Stranger among us: An Israeli's study of the UK Palestinian diaspora from 2015-06-20T16:00
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Jewish Orthodoxy in the grip of nationalism from 2015-06-11T14:12:30
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Landscape Orientalism: Early photography in the Holy Land from 2015-06-11T13:38:47
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The Prince: The emergence of the elites in early 20th-century Saudi Arabia from 2015-06-06T16:00
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Let there be light! The evolution of candle-lighting practices in Ashkenaz from 2015-05-22T08:47:38
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On the beneficiaries and victims of ‘Ashkenazi privilege’ in Israel from 2015-05-22T08:38:03
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Le parti c'est moi: Ben-Gurion and Mapai party politics in the early state years from 2015-05-15T07:17:40
Dr. Avi Bareli, a historian of Zionism at Ben-Gurion Unive...
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Hannah Arendt under the microscope from 2015-05-13T12:42:44
Evaluating the Jewish-German philosopher's theories on totalitarianism through testimonies of Holocaust victims and survivors.
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Moments and movements of resistance in Israel and beyond from 2015-05-09T10:00
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Multiculturalism in Israel: Literary Perspectives from 2015-05-08T10:00
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Holy matrimony: Zion and the Diaspora in 20th century Jewish thought from 2015-04-02T14:32:35
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The birth of the cosmopolitan Jew – The Tel Aviv Review from 2015-03-20T14:00
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Prof. Sander Gilman, who teaches history at Emory University in the US, is an extremely prolific academic with a vast spectrum of fields of expertise. He...
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TLV1’s Live Election Coverage: Tue 9PM&Wed 7AM (Israel time) from 2015-03-16T13:39:09
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More than moneylending: The economic history of the Jews from 2015-03-15T11:52:05
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All her daughters: The story of Jerusalem's legendary headmistress from 2015-03-04T15:42:53
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Israel's Bedouin and the line between tradition and modernity from 2015-02-27T11:45:19
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Requiem for a bygone Jewish-Arab coexistence from 2015-01-30T07:27:32
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Palestinian students and the struggle for nationhood from 2015-01-16T11:27:23
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How the Bible became holy from 2015-01-08T13:00:10
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You're in the army now: How Judaism fell back in love with the military from 2014-12-29T09:48:38
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Why the Diaspora is good for the Jews from 2014-12-12T08:17:43
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Bottomless pit: The Cairo Geniza and the untold history of Medieval Jewry from 2014-11-13T14:32:55
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Rise and decline of civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People from 2014-10-17T08:09:24
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Under women's wings: The architecture of the 'ezrat nashim' from 2014-10-08T15:01:16
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Tortured by the State: Race and gender in contemporary Israel from 2014-09-24T15:48:38
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A time of harmonious coexistence: The Jews and Muslims of Tinghir from 2014-08-29T13:32:27
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