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Back to SearchKafka in the West Bank: The bureaucracy of the occupation
Dr. Yael Berda, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a scholar at the Harvard Academy for Inte…
9 years, 4 months ago
Armenia's 30-year genocide
Professor Benny Morris, one of the foremost historians of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has ventured into a new territory. He discusses his forth…
9 years, 4 months ago
Going south: Movement and social upheaval in the Confederate States
Dr. Yael Sternhell, lecturer in American history at Tel Aviv University, discusses her book Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate S…
9 years, 4 months ago
Russian renaissance: Jewish renewal in post-Soviet Russia
Dr. Simon Parizhsky, a Jewish literature scholar and program director at Moscow's Eshkolot Center, busts a few myths about the "Dark Ages" of the Sov…
9 years, 4 months ago
Rule or exception? The political and legal implications of emergencies
Dr. Karin Loevy, a legal scholar at New York University and the author of the recently published Emergencies in Public Law: The Legal Politics of Con…
9 years, 4 months ago
Bridges over troubled water: Literary translations as basis of binationalism
Yehuda Shenhav, professor of sociology at Tel Aviv University and editor-in-chief of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute's Maktoob Book Series for Trans…
9 years, 4 months ago
What did Jewish rituals look like 2,000 years ago?
Robert Goldenberg, Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies at Stony Brook University in New York, discusses the Jewish rituals of the Hellenistic and Ro…
9 years, 4 months ago
Proto-Mizrahim: Oriental Jews and Arabs in pre-state Israel
Dr. Abigail Jacobson, a Middle East historian and Academic Director of the Mediterranean Neighbors unit at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and Dr. …
9 years, 4 months ago
Russell's teapot and kiddush cup: Between Jewish and Western philosophies
Orthodox rabbi, Jewish educator and philosopher Dr. Sam Lebens who specializes in, among other things, Bertrand Russell's thought, talks about his ec…
9 years, 5 months ago
Tel Aviv Review Extra: US Jews and Israel in the age of Trump
Prof. Dov Waxman, author of Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel, joins hosts Gilad Halpern and Dahlia Scheindlin to discu…
9 years, 5 months ago