Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhen in Romania, Do as the Romanian Jews
Dr. Felicia Waldman, a professor at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters and the author of "Tales and Traces of Sephardic Bucharest," dis…
8 years, 11 months ago
The Menorah: A Most Emblematic Emblem
Steven Fine, a Jewish history professor at Yeshiva University and the author of "The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel," analyzes the twists a…
8 years, 11 months ago
The Lobbyist: Herbert Hoover and the Jews
Dr. Sonja Wentling, a professor of history at Concordia College in the US, is the co-author of Herbert Hoover and the Jews: The Origins of the 'Jewis…
8 years, 11 months ago
Return to Former Glory: Sephardic Religious Culture in Israel
Dr. Joseph Ringel, a Jewish studies scholar at Northwestern University, discusses the links between halakha, politics, and culture among Sephardi rel…
8 years, 11 months ago
Down and Out in Be'er Sheba and Afula
Orly Benjamin, a professor of sociology at Bar-Ilan University, discusses her new book Gendering Israel's Outsourcing: The Erasure of Employees' Cari…
8 years, 11 months ago
The Tel Aviv Review LIVE in New York: Timothy Snyder on Tyranny
Listen to a recording of Tel Aviv Review host Gilad Halpern interviewing Yale University's Professor Timothy Snyder about his New York Times number o…
9 years ago
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, v.2015
When throngs of refugees poured into Europe in 2015, people wanted to help, but didn't know how. Holger Michel, a young German, decided to drop by a …
9 years ago
Is a Peaceful Peace Process Born to Fail?
It is difficult to think of anything that has failed as often as the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Nathan Thrall of the International Crisis Gro…
9 years ago
Romeo and Juliet Get Banned
Dorit Rabinyan's third novel about a stormy love between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man became a bestseller when Israel's Education Minister …
9 years ago
Occupation: Happy Birthday to You
At the close of the 50th year since Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza and applied military rule over the people residing there, Gershon Shafir p…
9 years ago