Podcast Episodes

Beyond Anne Frank: The Jew in Dutch Cinema

Can films reveal what a nation really believes about itself?

For decades, Dutch cinema told one story about its Jews. Then, slowly, that story began …

10 hours ago

Losing Our Story?

Upon the publication of Autocorrect, his latest collection of short stories, Etgar Keret joins us to discuss his favorite literary form, the impact o…

3 weeks ago

Patron-Exclusive Sample: Iran and the Bomb: A Long View

The major turning points in Iran's nuclear program were not the JCPOA or the latest wars, but the Shah's defiance of Henry Kissinger and the Iran-Ira…

1 month, 1 week ago

The Arab King and the American Republic

How does a Western-educated king survive — and thrive — in the political chaos of the Middle East for more than 25 years?

Aaron Magid, a journalist f…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

A Nightmare on Herzl Street

Olga Gershenson, professor of Jewish and Near East Studies and Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, explains how a generation ra…

2 months ago

The Dialectics of a Special Relationship

Oz Frankel, professor of American history at the New School for Social Research in New York, discusses his book Coca Cola, Black Panthers and Phantom…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Early Zionism's Arabists

A thought-provoking episode exploring how early Zionist thinkers engaged deeply with Arabic language and Islamic culture, challenging conventional vi…

3 months ago

Bubbe-Meises for the Masses: A Gendered Reading of the US Yiddish Press

Did you know that a Yiddish newspaper once had a larger circulation than The New York Times?

At the turn of the 20th century, the Yiddish press in Am…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

When Everybody Is LGBT, Nobody Is

Amir Naaman and Dr Ran Heilbrunn, Israeli writers based in Germany, discuss their new collection of essays Inversion: Gay Life after the Homosexual. …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

The Beginning of the End of Israeli Democracy

For Michael Sfard, one of Israel's most prominent human rights lawyers and author of the forthcoming book Occupation from Within: How Israel's Oppres…

5 months, 1 week ago