Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBetween Tel Aviv and Moscow: A story of Zionism, Communism and disillusionment
Dr. Nir Arielli, a lecturer in international history and politics at the University of Leeds, UK, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the tumultuous li…
10 years, 2 months ago
Postwar justice, Soviet style
Dr. Dina Moyal, a historian specializing in the legal history of the Soviet Union, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the trials of Nazi criminals and…
10 years, 2 months ago
The decline and fall of the kibbutz: An appreciation
Host Gilad Halpern and Professor Yaarah Bar-On; the President of Oranim Teachers College and a historian of the kibbutz movement, analyse the crisis …
10 years, 2 months ago
We have come to make the desert fiscally stable
Dr Daniel Schiffman, an economic historian and a senior lecturer in the department of Economics and Business Administration at Ariel University, is t…
10 years, 2 months ago
Ze'ev Jabotinbsky: A maverick Zionist for his life
Host Gilad Halpern talks to Brian Horowitz, professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans, and the co-editor of the recently publis…
10 years, 2 months ago
Damned to be blessed: Jewish exile as a metaphor
Host Gilad Halpern and Vivian Liska, professor of German literature and the director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp,…
10 years, 2 months ago
The two-state delusion: A coroner's report of a defunct solution
Padraig O'Malley, professor of peace and reconciliation at the University of Massachusetts and author of the recently published The Two State Delusio…
10 years, 3 months ago
Sovereignty in exile: the curious case of Kiryas Yoel
Explore the Hassidic settlement of Kiryas Yoel, in upstate New York, which offers a unique insight into questions of diaspora and sovereignty.
10 years, 3 months ago
The new left: Zionist youth movements in 1960s America
Dr. Tal Elmaliach, a historian of Zionism at the University of Wisconsin, discusses with host Gilad Halpern how Zionist youth movements played an inc…
10 years, 3 months ago
Occidentalism: Travels and migration in Arabic literature
Dr. Ariel Sheetrit, a lecturer in Arabic language and literature at the Ben-Gurion of the Negev and in Arab film at the Open University, is the coord…
10 years, 3 months ago