Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSeveral Tales of a City: Rethinking Contested Urbanisms
Dr Jonathan Rokem, a geographer and architecture scholar at University College, London, discusses his book Urban Geopolitics: Rethinking Planning in …
7 years, 7 months ago
The Empire Strikes Back: British Intelligence in the Middle East 1940-1948
Prof. Meir Zamir, Middle East scholar at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, is the author of the newly published The Secret Anglo-French War in the …
7 years, 7 months ago
The Yazidis: Loss, Dislocation and Collective Trauma
Idan Barir, a research fellow at the Forum for Regional Thinking and a translator for the Van Leer Institute's Maktoob series of Arabic literature in…
7 years, 7 months ago
Brava Gente: Debunking the Myth of Jew-Loving Italians
Dr Shira Klein, professor of modern history at Chapman University, discusses her book Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism, analyzing the contes…
7 years, 8 months ago
Not So Separate, Certainly Not Equal: A History of Partitions
Arie Dubnov, professor of History and Israel Studies at the George Washington University, discusses his new book Partitions: A Transnational of Twent…
7 years, 8 months ago
Jew Bites Dog: Tidbits from the Yiddish Press of Yore
Dr Eddy Portnoy, Senior Researcher and Director of Exhibitions at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, discusses his book Bad Rabbi and Other Stra…
7 years, 8 months ago
In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel
Dr. Adam Rovner, an Associate Professor of English and Jewish Literature at the University of Denver in the United States, recently had his book In t…
7 years, 8 months ago
Lessons in Disillusionment: Hans Kohn and the Crisis of Nationalism
Adi Gordon, professor of Jewish and European intellectual histories at Amherst College, discusses his new book Towards Nationalism's End, an intellec…
7 years, 8 months ago
Our Friend in the White House: Lincoln and the Jews
Jonathan Sarna, professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University, author of numerous books including, very recently, Lincoln and the Jews:…
7 years, 8 months ago
Not Just Jihad: Every War Is Holy in Its Own Way
Ron Hassner, professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses his book Religion on the Battlefield, which explores…
7 years, 8 months ago