Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe New Sepharad: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Salonica (Rerun)
Jewish history professor Aron Rodrigue of Stanford University was the keynote speaker at an international conference held this week at the Van Leer J…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Holocaust on the Outskirts
Jan Grabowski, Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, discusses his new book (co-edited with Barbara Engelking) Night Without End: The Fat…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Erratic Pulse of Israeli Democracy
Professor Tamar Hermann of the Israel Democracy Institute and the Open University discusses fresh findings from the annual Israel Democracy Index of …
4 years, 5 months ago
Red Is the New Green: Carbon Pricing in Israel
Nathan Sussman, Professor of Economics and Senior Visiting Research Fellow and leader of the "Israel 2050: Climate Crisis Preparedness" project at th…
4 years, 5 months ago
Jewish Life in the Time of 'Illiberal Democracy'
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…
4 years, 6 months ago
Smashing the Patriarchy?
Amalia Sa'ar, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Haifa, discusses her co-authored book (together with Dr. Hawazin Younis) Diversity: Pale…
4 years, 8 months ago
Love, Occupied
Sari Bashi's life was already complicated, as a Jewish Israeli human rights lawyer defending Palestinian freedom of movement. Then she fell in love w…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Spoils of Empire
Dr Itay Lotem, Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Westminster, discusses his new book The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and Fr…
4 years, 8 months ago
From Romania, For Cash
Dr Radu Ioanid, Romanian Ambassador to Israel and historian of Romanian Jewry, discusses his book The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of the Extraordin…
4 years, 8 months ago
What Would Susan Sontag Say?
Philosopher and cultural critic Susan Sontag spent a lifetime thinking about the mysterious space between reality and representation, becoming one of…
4 years, 9 months ago