Podcast Episodes

The Role of Social History and Anthropology in Telling the Story of Jerusalem

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…

6 years, 10 months ago

Vocational Training: The Past - and Future - of Israel's Economy

Dr Eitan Regev, an economist and Research Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, is a co-author of The Handbook on Vocational Training.

Regev anal…

6 years, 10 months ago

Introducing the Tel Aviv Review of Books

The Tel Aviv Review of Books is a new online English-language publication that seeks, by way of book reviews, essays, literary criticism, original fi…

6 years, 10 months ago

Creating Killers

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…

6 years, 10 months ago

The Curious Case of Holocaust Memory in Former Communist Countries

The rage against communism led some countries to diminish the historic fight against fascism under leaders they now loathe. Could this help justify n…

6 years, 10 months ago

Judicial Review Under Review

Israel's judiciary is under assault, according to some, or experiencing a necessary corrective to rampant judicial activism, according to others.

Dr.…

6 years, 11 months ago

Analyzing Israel in Germany

Dr. Peter Lintl, a researcher at the German think tank Stiftung Wissenschaft Und Politik (SWP), has the complex job of analyzing Israeli political tr…

6 years, 11 months ago

Teaching the Holocaust in Al-Quds

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 le…

6 years, 11 months ago

Liberalism and Nationalism: Friends or Enemies?

"Liberal" and "nationalist" sound like mutually exclusive forces that cannot coexist. Yet Yuli Tamir, scholar, peace activist and a former government…

6 years, 11 months ago

The Old/New Middle East

Moshe Sakal's novel The Diamond Setter brings old Middle Eastern themes into contemporary Israel, and weaves them into a story comprising of a redisc…

6 years, 11 months ago