Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPost-Zionism retold: For the establishment of an Israeli Republic
Dr. Moshe Berent, a political scientist at the Open University, is the author of the recently published A Nation Like All Nations: Towards the the Es…
10 years, 9 months ago
Occupation Studies: Theorizing and analyzing a new reality
Dr. Hilla Dayan, a sociologist at Amsterdam University College in the Netherlands, is working to lay the theoretical and institutional foundations fo…
10 years, 9 months ago
In the shadow of Zion: Promised lands before Israel
Dr. Adam Rovner, an Associate Professor of English and Jewish Literature at the University of Denver in the United States, recently had his book In t…
10 years, 9 months ago
Bread and circuses: Reality TV and the boundaries of artistic quality
Dr. Noa Lavie, a sociologist at the Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College, specializes in the impact of television on society, in Israel and beyond. She di…
10 years, 10 months ago
Palestine in ruins: Israel and the depopulated villages of 1948
Noga Kadman, an Israeli researcher and tour guide, recently had her book, Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian…
10 years, 10 months ago
The step-sister of Yiddish culture: Judeo-Arabic literature in Tunisia
Prof. Yosef Toby, professor emeritus of Medieval Hebrew poetry at the University of Haifa, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the cultural golden age …
10 years, 10 months ago
A personal look into Israel's Iron Lady
Professor Meron Medzini, a Japanologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem but also, perhaps surprisingly, a biographer of Golda Meir, the prime m…
10 years, 10 months ago
Our friend in the White House: Lincoln and the Jews
Jonathan Sarna, professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University, author of numerous books including, very recently, Lincoln and the Jews:…
10 years, 10 months ago
Israel in Theory: "Israel fetish" in Western academia
Dr. Gabriel Noah Brahm, associate professor of English at Northern Michigan University, is probably best known for co-editing the comprehensive The C…
10 years, 11 months ago
How the Nazis imagined a world without Jews
Prof. Alon Confino, a historian at the University of Virginia and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, recently had his book A World Without Jews: …
10 years, 11 months ago