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Israel Studies
Interviews with scholars of Israel about their new books.
July 23, 2024
Suddenly, the Sight of War
Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s (Stanford UP, 2016) is a genealogy of Hebrew poetry written in pre-…
July 18, 2024
Stranger in My Own Land
In this very moving and heartwarming interview I had the opportunity to discuss with Fida Jiyris her work, a beautifully written memoir that tells the…
July 15, 2024
Reading Herzl in Beirut
How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO's relationship to Zionism and Israel In September 1982, the Israeli milita…
July 13, 2024
New Israeli Horror
Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The next…
July 12, 2024
Towers of Ivory and Steel
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sour…
July 9, 2024
Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age
Judaism in the twenty-first century has seen the rise of the messianic Third Temple movement, as religious activists based in Israel have worked to re…
July 7, 2024
Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism
Despite its persistence and viciousness, anti-Semitism remains undertheorized in comparison with other forms of racism and discrimination. How should …
June 29, 2024
An Impossible Friendship
In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet at the bar of the King David Hotel. This group of…
June 18, 2024
The Jewish Community of Acre in Mandatory Palestine
For a brief moment in the history of Acre, there was a Hebrew community that linked old and new settlements. It had a national-Zionist orientation and…
June 10, 2024
The Making of the Israeli Far-Right
Peter Bergamin’s, new book, The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology (I. B. Tauris, 2019), is an intellectual biography …
June 7, 2024
Israel's Black Panthers
Asaf Elia-Shalev's book Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth (U California Press, 2024) tells the story of the…
June 4, 2024
German Jerusalem
In the 1920s, before the establishment of the state of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a garden city on the outskirts of Jerusalem. During…
June 3, 2024
Kafka's Last Trial
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfill Kafka’s last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscript…
May 27, 2024
Iran and Palestine
In Iran and Palestine: Past, Present and Future (Routledge, 2019), Seyed Ali Alavi (SOAS University of London) surveys the history of the relationship…
May 15, 2024
Elastic Empire
The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on …
May 13, 2024
What does Biden’s temporary suspension of offensive arms transfers mean for US-Israeli relations?
Charles Blaha, a former State Department expert on the vetting of U.S. weapons transfers to other countries, helps us understand this important moment…
May 8, 2024
The Making of an Alliance
Laying the foundation for an understanding of US-Israeli relations, this lively and accessible book provides critical background on the origins and de…
May 7, 2024
My Brother, My Land
My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine (Redwood Press, 2024) is a riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one f…
May 1, 2024
The Rhetoric of Crisis in Israel-Palestine
This week, RBI Director John Torpey speaks with Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jew…
April 1, 2024
Brothers and Sisters for Israel (“Achim Baneshek”)
How does an organization change in an instant, shift its focus and mission in response to a new reality? One volunteer organization did just that. I…