Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTroubled communities: Which nations are prone to existential angst?
Dr. Uriel Abulof, a political scientist at Tel Aviv University, is the author of the new book The Mortality and Morality of Nations. He discusses wit…
10 years, 1 month ago
Dig this: Community archaeology in Israel
Dr. Itzick Shai, an archaeologist and lecturer in Israeli heritage at Ariel University, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the excavation of Tel Burna…
10 years, 1 month ago
The Shamrock and Star of David: Irish and Jewish nationalisms
Dr. Aidan Beatty, a post-doctoral fellow in Israel Studies at the Concordia University, Canada, is the author of the forthcoming book Masculinity and…
10 years, 1 month ago
Karaites: The first Jewish fundamentalists
Prof. Meira Polliack of the Department of Bible Studies at Tel Aviv University discusses with host Gilad Halpern the conceptual and theological excha…
10 years, 1 month ago
Israeli idols: Neo-paganism in the Jewish state
Shai Ferraro, a religions scholar at Tel Aviv University, explores with host Gilad Halpern the emergence of pagan rituals in contemporary Israel agai…
10 years, 1 month ago
Women of valor: The forgotten history of women in Zionism
Dr. Esther Carmel-Hakim, a historian of Zionism at the University of Haifa, explores with host Gilad Halpern the central role women played in the Jew…
10 years, 1 month ago
Free spirits: New Age culture in Israel
Dr. Rachel Werczberger, an anthropologist, religious scholar, and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, explores with host Gilad Ha…
10 years, 1 month ago
Desert eagles: American foreign policy in the Middle East
Joel Migdal, professor of international studies at the University of Washington, is the author of the recently published Shifting Sands: The United S…
10 years, 2 months ago
Gender segregation at Israeli beaches: How did it all start?
Dr. Shayna Weiss, a Jewish history scholar and post-doctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University, traces with host Gilad Halpern the origin of gender segre…
10 years, 2 months ago
In Philip Roth's shadow: Sayed Kashua's 'authorial network'
Dr. David Hadar, a literary scholar and post-doctoral fellow at the Open University, analyzes with host Gilad Halpern the influence, overt and covert…
10 years, 2 months ago