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Episode 4 - Last Jew Standing: The story of Israeli Jews

Episode 4

Israeli Jews are the last surviving remnant of dozens of devastated Jewish communities across three continents. How did this history shape them? What…

1 year, 5 months ago

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Episode 3: John Spencer on why Israel hasn't yet won the war in Gaza

Episode 3

In our first interview episode, Haviv Rettig Gur sits down (virtually) with Prof. John Spencer of West Point, one of the foremost experts in urban wa…

1 year, 6 months ago

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Comment: We will protect our own

Recorded Thursday, February 20th

Israelis watched horrified on Thursday, as Hamas gunmen conducted a ceremony handing over four coffins, two of them w…

1 year, 6 months ago

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Episode 2: The lost history of American Jews

Episode 2

American Jews constitute the biggest, wealthiest, most influential and safest Jewish diaspora community in Jewish history, and also among the most Je…

1 year, 6 months ago

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Episode 1: The Untold Story of Herzl's Journey to Zionism

Episode 1

It’s hard for a modern Jew to grasp the depth of marginalization and ostracism that even the most assimilated of Austrian Jews experienced in the 189…

1 year, 6 months ago

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Extra: Hamas holds Gaza's future hostage

*Recorded Saturday night, February 8, 2025*First reflections in response to Hamas's hostage release ceremony in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza on Satu…

1 year, 6 months ago

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Episode 0: History That Matters

"Ask Haviv Anything" is a podcast about history, a podcast you, dear listener, will help to shape and direct, focusing not just on what I want to tal…

1 year, 6 months ago

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