Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA shot heard around Israel: The sociology of Rabin's assassination
Dr. Ido Yoav, a sociologist and anthropologist at Sapir College, joins host Gilad Halpern to analyze the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabi…
10 years, 7 months ago
Oh captain, our captain: Walt Whitman's influence on Jewish-American poetry
Dr. Dara Barnat, a poet and culture scholar at Tel Aviv University, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the universal message of the great 19th-century…
10 years, 7 months ago
The building blocks of conflict: Architecture and ideology in Israel/Palestine
Dr. Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, historian of architecture at Sapir Academic College and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, talks to host Gilad Halpern a…
10 years, 7 months ago
Israel for American eyes: Cross-cultural 'adaptation' of Israeli literature
Dr. Omri Asscher, head of the Translation Diploma Track at Beit Berl College and a post-doctoral fellow at the Ruderman Program for American Jewish S…
10 years, 7 months ago
Stories and histories: 150 years of micro-history in Israel
Dr. Boaz Lev Tov, academic director of the Time Tunnel at Beit Berl College, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the benefits of oral history in unders…
10 years, 7 months ago
The year the Israeli-Arab conflict officially began
Prof. Hillel Cohen, a Middle East historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of the newly published 1929: Year Zero of the Arab-I…
10 years, 7 months ago
And the Lord said to Moses (thought bubble)
Assaf Gamzou, curator at the Israeli Cartoon Museum in Holon, gives host Gilad Halpern a review of a new exhibition that tells the Bible stories in c…
10 years, 7 months ago
To be unfruitful: Childlessness among Jewish men
Elliot Jager, journalist, political scientist, and commentator, is the author of the recently published The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My Childles…
10 years, 7 months ago
Einstein: Genius, thought leader, cultural icon
Prof. Steven Gimbel, philosopher of science at Gettysburg College in the United States, is the author of the recently published Einstein: His Space a…
10 years, 7 months ago
'Year Zero' of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Prof. Monty Noam Penkower, Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, is the author of…
10 years, 7 months ago