Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Israeli vernacular & the limits of education
Prof. Ghil'ad Zuckermann, a professor of linguistics at the University of Adelaide in Australia, and Dr. Gitit Holzmann, a lecturer in Jewish philoso…
10 years, 5 months ago
How Kabbalah shaped Judaism as we know it
Dr. Roni Weinstein, a historian of Judaism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explores with host Gilad Halpern the origins of Jewish mysticism (i…
10 years, 5 months ago
How the "Schindler of Vilnius" saved my life
Holocaust survivor Simon Malkes has dedicated his recently published memoirs to the man who saved him, a Nazi officer called Karl Plagge, for whom he…
10 years, 6 months ago
Civil religion, Israel style: Independence Day case study
Adi Sherzer, a doctoral fellow at the Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, explores with h…
10 years, 6 months ago
A land flowing with milk and honey... and water?
Dr. Orli Sela, an environmental and legal historian at New York University, explores the evolution of the perception of water abundance and its place…
10 years, 6 months ago
Enlightenment and its discontents: The French-Jewish critique
Dr. Rony Klein, professor of political philosophy at Tel Aviv University specializing in French political thought, explores how late 20th century Jew…
10 years, 6 months ago
Move over, Tony Soprano: Jewish underworld in Interwar Poland
Dr. Aviva Tal, professor of Yiddish literature at Bar-Ilan University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the forgotten history of Jewish criminality …
10 years, 6 months ago
Global memory culture: From Hiroshima to Auschwitz
Dr. Ran Zwigenberg, professor of history and Asian studies at Pennsylvania State University and author of the recently published Hiroshima: The Origi…
10 years, 6 months ago
Fidelity issues: The story of an Israeli traitor
Dr. Hadas Cohen, a post-doctoral fellow at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin, discusses with host Gilad Halpern her analysis of the constr…
10 years, 6 months ago
Religion in conflict resolution: Liability or asset?
Dr. Yakir Englander, a Jewish philosophy scholar at Harvard University and expert on interfaith dialogue, both as an activist and a scholar, reviews …
10 years, 6 months ago