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Israel Studies
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
February 8, 2021
Harpoon
Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and Samuel M. Katz
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Covid-19 is the global threat that owns today’s headlines, but the threat of international and domestic terrorism is still very much with us. Specifically, the widespread upheaval, uncertainty and global …
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Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
January 19, 2021
The Last Million
Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
David Nasaw
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
In May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of global military conflict did not cease with …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
January 13, 2021
Intoxicating Zion
A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel
Haggai Ram
Hosted by Lucas Richert
When European powers carved political borders across the Middle East following World War I, a curious event in the international drug trade occurred: Palestine became the most important hashish waystation …
Middle Eastern Studies
January 7, 2021
The Sword is Not Enough
Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force
Jeremy Pressman
Hosted by Aaron Hagler
Jeremy Pressman is Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of Middle East Studies at the University of Connecticut. Jeremy is the author of The Sword is Not Enough …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
January 4, 2021
Till We Have Built Jerusalem
Architects of a New City
Adina Hoffman
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
A remarkable view of one of the world's most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman's Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City (FSG, 2017) is a gripping …
Jewish Studies
December 17, 2020
Conceiving Agency
Reproductive Authority Among Haredi Women
Michal S. Raucher
Hosted by Zalman Newfield
In Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women (Indiana University Press, 2020), Michal Raucher explores the ways ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel make decisions about their reproductive lives. Although they …
Politics & Polemics
November 17, 2020
Mythologies Without End
The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020
Jerome Slater
Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
The history of modern Israel is a fiercely contested subject. From the Balfour declaration to the Six-Day War to the recent assault on Gaza, ideologically-charged narratives and counter-narratives battle for …
Israel Studies
November 5, 2020
Between Dixie and Zion
Southern Baptists and Palestine before Israel
Walker Robins
Hosted by Lane Davis
In Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptists and Palestine before Israel (University of Alabama Press, 2020), Walker Robins explores how Southern Baptists engaged what was called the “Palestine question”: whether …
Israel Studies
October 5, 2020
Women’s Political Activism in Palestine
Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival
Sophie Richter-Devroe
Hosted by Josephine Chaet
Dr. Sophie Richter-Devroe’s book, Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival (University of Illinois Press, 2018) offers an analysis of the forms assumed by women’s political resistance in …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
September 9, 2020
The Invention of Jewish Theocracy
The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel
Alexander Kaye
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
The tension between secular politics and religious fundamentalism is a problem shared by many modern states. This is certainly true of the State of Israel, where the religious-secular schism provokes …
Literature
September 7, 2020
The Hilltop
Assaf Gavron
Hosted by Yakir Englander
Mordantly funny and deeply moving, The Hilltop about life in a West Bank settlement has been hailed as “brilliant” (The New York Times Book Review) and “The Great Israeli Novel …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
August 6, 2020
The War of Return
How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace
Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be …
Israel Studies
July 29, 2020
Sport, Politics, and Society in the Middle East
Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek
Hosted by James M. Dorsey
Sports scholars Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek’s edited volume, Sport, Politics, and Society in the Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2019), makes a significant contribution to what remains a largely …
Indian Ocean World
July 21, 2020
The Gulf Region and Israel
Old Struggles, New Alliances
Sigurd Neubauer
Hosted by James M. Dorsey
Gulf scholar Sigurd Neubauer’s The Gulf Region and Israel: Old Struggles, New Alliances makes a significant contribution to our understanding of what drives shifting alliances in the Middle East, an …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
July 6, 2020
The Good Assassin
How A Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down The Butcher of Latvia
Stephan Talty
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
History that reads like a thriller; The Good Assassin: How A Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down The Butcher of Latvia (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) by Stephan …
Film
July 3, 2020
The Palestinian Idea
Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination
Greg Burris
Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds? The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination (Temple University Press, 2019) argues …
Israel Studies
May 25, 2020
Polarized and Demobilized
Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine
Dana El Kurd
Hosted by Susan Liebell
What demobilizes a once mobilized society? How does international involvement amplify or suppress these dynamics? In Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine (Oxford University Press, 2020), Dana El …
Israel Studies
May 21, 2020
Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis
State and Politics in the Middle East
Yaacov Yadgar
Hosted by Peter Bergamin
Yaacov Yadgar discusses his new book, Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2020) with Peter Bergamin. An important and topical contribution to …
Israel Studies
May 19, 2020
Theodor Herzl
The Charismatic Leader
Derek J. Penslar
Hosted by Peter Bergamin
The life of Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement? How could …
German Studies
April 7, 2020
West Germany and Israel
Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Cold War
Carole Fink
Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In her new book, West Germany and Israel: Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Carole Fink examines the relationship between West Germany and Israel …
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