Podcast Episodes

What Do Israeli Haredim Really Care About?

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 Isra…

2 years, 10 months ago

The Forces of Nature

Irus Braverman, Professor of Law, Geography and Environmental Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo, discusses her book Settling Nat…

2 years, 11 months ago

Revolution and National Liberation

Tamir Sorek, professor of history at Penn State University specializing in Palestinian politics and culture in the State of Israel, discusses his boo…

2 years, 11 months ago

Withdrawal: The Continuation of Occupation by Other Means?

Dr Rob Geist Pinfold, a lecturer at Durham University's School of Government and International Affairs, discusses his book Understanding Territorial …

2 years, 11 months ago

Man of the Night

Joseph Berger, formerly a New York Times journalist, discusses his book Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence, the first English-language biography of…

2 years, 11 months ago

This Is Israel

Isabel Kershner, Israel reporter for the New York Times, discusses her new book The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for its Inner Soul.

This e…

3 years ago

Arabs, Israelis or Palestinians?

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…

3 years ago

The Other 'National Home'

Lerna Ekmekcioglu, Professor of History and Gender Studies at MIT, specializing in Turkish and Armenian history, discusses Armenian demands for a "na…

3 years ago

The Poetics of the Political, the Politics of the Poetic

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Professor (Emerita) of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses her book Figuring Jerusalem: Po…

3 years ago

Haredim in Israel: Success, but at What Cost?

Kimmy Caplan, Professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University, discusses his co-edited book Contemporary Israeli Haredi Society: Profiles, Trends …

3 years, 1 month ago