Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCyriac of Ancona, Europe's first archaeologist
Dr. Adar Yarum, an art historian at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the life and journals of Cyriac (Ciriaco) o…
10 years, 4 months ago
No laughing matter: What studying humor can teach us about life
Prof. Arie Sover, the founding chair of the Israeli Society for the Study of Humor, dissects with host Gilad Halpern the ins and outs of his field, i…
10 years, 4 months ago
Love in the time of cholera: Three decades of Spanish-Israeli relations
Prof. Raanan Rein, a historian of Spain and Latin America and Vice-President of Tel Aviv University, explores the tumultuous relationship between Isr…
10 years, 4 months ago
Anti-clockwise: Time and modernity in the late Ottoman Empire
Dr. Avner Wishnitzer, senior lecturer in Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University, is the author of the recently published Reading C…
10 years, 5 months ago
Higher, faster, stronger? 'Hitler's Olympiad' and the Yishuv
Ofer Idels, a doctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University's Department of History, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the heated debate that swept the Jewi…
10 years, 5 months ago
Chaim Weizmann: A statesman, a scientist
Prof. Benjamin Z. Kedar, Professor Emeritus of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and former Vice-President of the Israeli Academy of Scie…
10 years, 5 months ago
Exporting the occupation: How Israel gains clout on the back of the Palestinians
Prof. Jeff Halper, an anthropologist and human rights activist, talks to host Gilad Halpern about his latest book, War Against the People; Israel, th…
10 years, 5 months ago
The public intellectual and Jewish philosophy
Zev Harvey, professor emeritus of Jewish philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the life and opinions of…
10 years, 5 months ago
Why hawks become doves: The Shimon Peres case study
Dr. Guy Ziv, an international relations professor at the American University in Washington, DC, is the author of the recently published Why Hawks Bec…
10 years, 5 months ago
The curious case of Sharia courts in the Jewish state
Dr. Ido Shahar, a lecturer in Middle East history at the University of Haifa, is the author of the recently published Legal Pluralism in the Holy Cit…
10 years, 5 months ago