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Back to SearchThe Prince: The emergence of the elites in early 20th-century Saudi Arabia
Nachum Shiloh, who's about to complete his PhD at Tel Aviv University's Department of History, talks to host Gilad Halpern about his research that fo…
11 years ago
The myth of the cultural Jew
Prof. Roberta Ronsethal Kwall, a legal scholar and the founding director of the DePaul University College of Law, has just authored a new book entitl…
11 years ago
The Prince: The emergence of elites in early 20th-century Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has always seemed an ultraconservative society, with a clear hierarchy and a coercive leadership.
11 years ago
Let there be light! The evolution of candle-lighting practices in Ashkenaz
Dr. Susan Nashman Fraiman, an art historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, tells host Gilad Halpern about her recent research, which focuses …
11 years, 1 month ago
On the beneficiaries and victims of 'Ashkenazi privilege' in Israel
Prof. Meir Amor, an Israeli sociologist teaching at Concordia University in Canada, has been a Mizrahi activist for decades, as well as a long-time r…
11 years, 1 month ago
Hannah Arendt under the microscope
Dr. Michal Aharony, political philosophy and Holocaust studies professor at Beit Berl Academic College, recently authored Hannah Arendt and the Limit…
11 years, 1 month ago
Le parti c'est moi: Ben-Gurion and Mapai party politics in the early state years
Dr. Avi Bareli, a historian of Zionism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, recently authored Authority and Participation in a New Democracy: Polit…
11 years, 1 month ago
Hannah Arendt under the microscope
Evaluating the Jewish-German philosopher's theories on totalitarianism through testimonies of Holocaust victims and survivors.
11 years, 1 month ago
Moments and movements of resistance in Israel and beyond
Prof. Lev Grinberg, a sociologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, joins host Gilad Halpern to discuss his new book Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: …
11 years, 1 month ago
Multiculturalism in Israel: Literary Perspectives
Dr. Adia Mendelson-Moaz of the department of Literature, Language and the Arts at Israel's Open University joins host Gilad Halpern to talk about her…
11 years, 1 month ago