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Israel Studies
Interviews with scholars of Israel about their new books.
November 24, 2024
Middle East on the Brink: Escalation, Diplomacy, and the Search for Stability
Recent developments in the Middle East have raised concern about the potential for a wider regional war. What do escalating tensions in Gaza, Lebanon…
November 23, 2024
Writing on the Wall
"Writing on the Wall" is a global platform founded by Professor William Kolbrener and novelist Ronit Eitan in response to the traumatic events of Octo…
November 15, 2024
Occupied Words
The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death…
November 9, 2024
Parker Palmer on the Israel-Gaza War
In times of profound crisis, when violence and hatred seem to dominate our world, we often search for voices that can help us navigate through the dar…
November 7, 2024
On Revival
On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) is a critique of one of the most important tenets of Zionist thinkin…
November 5, 2024
The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7
The essay "The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7" (Mosaic Magazine) by Shany Mor, dated October 7, 2024, examines the intellectual and …
November 3, 2024
Three Worlds
In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing from their beloved Iraq into the new state of Israel. Now the r…
October 20, 2024
Battle Before the War
A critical challenge for militaries is preparing for future, not past, wars. History shows that success often depends on accurately interpreting and h…
September 22, 2024
Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War
Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War: Essays on Philology and Responsibility (Brill, 2019) is the first book-length study that examines the diversity of…
September 21, 2024
Safety through Solidarity
Antisemitism is on the rise today. From synagogue shootings by white nationalists, to right-wing politicians and media figures pushing George Soros co…
September 18, 2024
The October 7 War
A harrowing account on the frontlines of the war between Israel and Hamas, The October 7 War: Israel's Battle for Security in Gaza (Wicked Son, 2024) …
September 15, 2024
Teaching Israel
Today I talked to Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold's their book Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field (Brandeis UP, 2023). In this discuss…
September 6, 2024
Unsettled
Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine (NYU Press, 2024) digs into the experiences of young Jewish Americans who engage wi…
September 4, 2024
Hate Speech and Academic Freedom
Completed shortly before Hamas carried out its barbaric October massacre, Cary Nelson's Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on B…
August 28, 2024
Notes from the Field
We start this season of International Horizons with an interview with Dr. Eli Karetny, an American political scientist and administrative director o…
August 24, 2024
EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019
Nearly 50 years since the European Foreign Ministers issued their first declaration on the conflict between Israel and Palestine in 1971, the European…
August 15, 2024
Meir Kahane
Rabbi Meir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane …
August 12, 2024
Since 1948
Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways. As fresh creative voic…
August 1, 2024
Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane
For Kahane, the greatest enemy of the Jews was not the black nationalist, the greatest enemy of the Jews was not the Arabs. The greatest enemy of the …
July 28, 2024
The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973
Russia's forceful re-entry into the Middle Eastern arena, and the accentuated continuity of Soviet policy and methods of the 1960s and '70s, highlight…