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Back to Search"I Am Indeed a Sheigetz of the Gentile Persuasion"
Shane Baker, a theater director and creator, recounts his unusual entry into Yiddish theater and his efforts to revive a once-glorious artistic tradi…
7 years ago
Can Constitutions Save Us?
All societies are divided, and constitutions are supposed to set the rules for a peaceful life. Hanna Lerner is the expert on how constitutions aroun…
7 years ago
The Name Is Arendt. Hannah Arendt
Ken Krimstein, an illustrator and graphic novelist, discusses his new book The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth.
This episode of th…
7 years ago
Getting Better All the Time?
Michael A. Cohen (no, not that one) and Micah Zenko have a radical proposal: The world is getting better, not worse.
Their book Clear and Present Saf…
7 years ago
Cause or Effect? The Media's Role in Democratic Decline
Having experienced virtually the most devastating crisis in its history, what can the media do to safeguard democracy, in an increasingly hostile env…
7 years ago
The Way We Were: Biography of the 1948 Generation
Prof. Hanna Yablonka, a historian at Ben-Gurion University, discusses her book Children By The Book: Biography of a Generation, painting a collective…
7 years ago
A History of the Jews in 23 Million Objects
Stephanie Halpern and Leo Greenbaum of the YIVO archives take us on a stroll through decades of Jewish history via historical documents and paraphern…
7 years ago
Can Anyone Own Kafka?
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 st…
7 years, 1 month ago
Tel Aviv Review Live in New York: Michael Walzer on the Problem of the Left
Michael Walzer, political philosopher of international renown and Professor Emeritus of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princet…
7 years, 1 month ago
Islam, on the Verge of Reformation
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.
In two bo…
7 years, 1 month ago