Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPortrait of the Intellectual as a Young German Woman
Dr. Olga Kirschbaum, a historian (PhD NYU) discusses the intellectual networks of Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century…
9 years, 2 months ago
Japan During WW2: A Classic Case of Anti-Semitism Without Jews
Professor Meron Medzini, a Japanologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses his new book Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Japan and t…
9 years, 3 months ago
Whose World Heritage? De-politicizing Archaeology in Jerusalem
Yonathan Mizrachi, director of Emek Shaveh, a Jerusalem-based organization that undertakes to "prevent the politicization of archaeology in the conte…
9 years, 3 months ago
From Revolution to Constitution: Law and politics in Egypt since 2011
Dr. Heather McRobie, a post-doctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University's law school, specializes in Egypt's constitutional law, which went into overdrive…
9 years, 3 months ago
Activism and Its Discontents: A 35-Year Journey Along the Seam
Sarah Kreimer, a veteran Israeli-American activist, has just published her memoir Vision and Division in Israel: My Journey Along the Seam, which off…
9 years, 3 months ago
Weather permitting: Dealing with climate change in a divided Middle East
Nir Stav, the director of the Israel Meteorological Service, lays out the challenges imposed on the Middle East , and discusses how different countr…
9 years, 3 months ago
Death of a statesman: Yitzhak Rabin and the end of an Israeli era
Professor Itamar Rabinovich, the president of the Israel Institute, former president of Tel Aviv University and Yitzhak Rabin's ambassador to the Uni…
9 years, 3 months ago
Zionism as a Vocation: Ahad Ha'am and the Legacy of Cultural Zionism
Dr. Brian Klug, a senior research fellow in Philosophy at St. Benet's Hall, University of Oxford, discusses his new book Words of Fire: Ahad Ha'am an…
9 years, 3 months ago
Jaffa, the crux of co-existence?
Professor Daniel Monterescu, a professor of anthropology at the Central European University in Budapest and a visiting professor at the Faculty of Ar…
9 years, 3 months ago
Adieu, Jews: France and North Africa under the Nazi occupation
Dr. Daniel Lee, a historian of the Second World War at the University of Sheffield, discusses the unusual case of Jews in metropolitan France and its…
9 years, 3 months ago