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Israel Studies
Anthropology January 12, 2022

Becoming Palestine

Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future

Gil Z. Hochberg

Hosted by Fulya Pinar
In Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future (Duke UP, 2021), Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, filmmakers, dancers, and activists use the archive in order …

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Interviews with scholars of Israel about their new books.

Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel January 11, 2022

State and Religion in Israel

A Philosophical-Legal Inquiry

Gideon Sapir and Daniel Statman

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Mahatma Gandhi said, “Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.” The relationship between religion and state presents complex challenges to liberal democracies around the world. In …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel January 5, 2022

Gaza Conflict 2021

Jonathan Schanzer

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Today I talked to Jonathan Schanzer about his new book Gaza Conflict 2021 (Foundation for Defense of Democracies, 2021). The May 2021 conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas generated …
Anthropology December 17, 2021

The Moral Triangle

Germans, Israelis, Palestinians

Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor

Hosted by Armanc Yildiz
Berlin is home to Europe’s largest Palestinian diaspora community and one of the world’s largest Israeli diaspora communities. Germany’s guilt about the Nazi Holocaust has led to a public disavowal …
Law December 14, 2021

The War Lawyers

The United States, Israel, and Juridical Warfare

Craig Jones

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
Over the last 20 years the world's most advanced militaries have invited a small number of military legal professionals into the heart of their targeting operations, spaces which had previously …
Jewish Studies December 1, 2021

Abraham the Hebrew Believer

Secularism and Religion in the Work of Avraham Shlonsky

Rani Jaeger

Hosted by Yakir Englander
How can it be that deeply religious poetry is being written by a committed socialist, literary revolutionary and modernist? How sacredness appears in working in the field? How one can …
Jewish Studies November 18, 2021

Judah Magnes

The Prophetic Politics of a Religious Binationalist

David Barak-Gorodetsky

Hosted by Bar Guzi
In this episode, I interview David Barak-Gorodetzky about his new book, Judah Magnes: The Prophetic Politics of a Religious Binationalist (U Nebraska Press, 2021). This comprehensive intellectual biography of Judah …
Israel Studies November 18, 2021

EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019

Anders Persson

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Nearly 50 years since the European Foreign Ministers issued their first declaration on the conflict between Israel and Palestine in 1971, the European Union continues to have close political and economic …
Israel Studies November 15, 2021

A City in Fragments

Urban Texts in Modern Jerusalem

Yair Wallach

Hosted by Avery Weinman
In the mid-nineteenth century, Jerusalem was rich with urban texts inscribed in marble, gold, and cloth, investing holy sites with divine meaning. Ottoman modernization and British colonial rule transformed the …
Israel Studies November 4, 2021

Figs and Alligators

An American Immigrant's Life in Israel in the 1970s And 1980s

Aaron Leibel

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In the wake of the Six Day War, Aaron and Bonnie Leibel decided to emigrate to Israel, or, as Jews call it, "make aliyah." What followed were sixteen tumultuous, frustrating …
Israel Studies November 3, 2021

Mystical Vertigo

Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide

Aubrey L. Glazer

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Aubrey L. Glazer's Mystical Vertigo: Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide (Academic Studies Press, 2013) immerses readers in the experience of the contemporary kabbalistic Hebrew poet, serving as …
Anthropology October 20, 2021

Screen Shots

State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine

Rebecca L. Stein

Hosted by Mathew Gagné
In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police. Screen Shots: State …
Politics & Polemics October 13, 2021

The Dawn of Redemption

Ethics and Tradition in a Time of Power

Mikhael Manekin

Hosted by Yakir Englander
In The Dawn of Redemption: Ethics and Tradition in a Time of Power (Evrit, 2021), Mikhael Manekin argues that modern Jewish nationalism--widespread today among secular as well as religious Israeli-Jews--is …
Diplomatic History October 7, 2021

Israelpolitik

German-Israeli Relations, 1949-69

Lorena De Vita

Hosted by Grant Golub
The rapprochement between Germany and Israel in the aftermath of the Holocaust is one of the most striking political developments of the twentieth century. German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently referred …
Israel Studies September 29, 2021

Dear Palestine

A Social History of the 1948 War

Shay Hazkani

Hosted by Avery Weinman
In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over …
Literature September 23, 2021

On Wandering Beaches

Rawya Jarjoura Burbara

Hosted by Yakir Englander
On Wandering Beaches (Pardes, 2020) is a novel of journeys, a novel of migration that conceals contradictions that summarize a whole world. Along the shores of Tel Aviv- Haifa-Acre-Nahariyya, all the …
Poetry September 22, 2021

Make Room for the Rain

Shahar-Mario Mordechai

Hosted by Yakir Englander
The poet Shachar-Mario Mordechai was born 1975 in Haifa and he currently lives in Tel Aviv. He has published four volumes of poetry, all of which attracted critical attention. Mordechai is …
Israel Studies September 20, 2021

Yiddish in Israel

A History

Rachel Rojanski

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Yiddish in Israel: A History (Indiana UP, 2020) challenges the commonly held view that Yiddish was suppressed or even banned by Israeli authorities for ideological reasons, offering instead a radical …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel September 16, 2021

The Star and the Scepter

A Diplomatic History of Israel

Emmanuel Navon

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
The first all-encompassing book on Israel’s foreign policy and the diplomatic history of the Jewish people, The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel (Jewish Publication Society, 2020) retraces …
Literary Studies September 13, 2021

The Small Literary Press

An Interview with Nana Ariel and Uri Yoeli of Home Press (Israel)

Nana Ariel and Uri Yoeli

Hosted by Yakir Englander
Home Press is a tiny local publishing house and press in Tel Aviv Jaffa. Uri Yoeli and Nana Ariel, a couple, established it in their apartment in 2019. The Home …