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Darts & Letters
August 9, 2022
Letters from Herzl
Settler Colonialism at work in Palestine
Hosted by
Gordon Katic
Today’s episode originally aired in May of 2021, while violence was erupting all along the Gaza Strip. Israeli airstrikes had left over 200 Palestinians and a dozen Israelis dead. It …
Israel Studies
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Interviews with scholars of Israel about their new books.
National Security
July 27, 2022
The Influence of Foreign Wars on U.S. Domestic Military Policy
The Case of the Yom Kippur War
Robert W. Tomlinson
Hosted by
Samuel Canter
How do military organizations learn? Robert W. Tomlinson's book The Influence of Foreign Wars on U.S. Domestic Military Policy (Lexington, 2022) covers an important instance of military learning in which the …
Jewish Studies
July 22, 2022
The Routledge Introductory Course in Modern Hebrew
Giore Etzion
Hosted by
Michael Morales
Thinking about learning Modern Hebrew, but waiting for the perfect grammar? The Routledge Introductory Course in Modern Hebrew by Giore Etzion is an integrated language course adopting an eclectic approach. The course …
Jewish Studies
July 13, 2022
Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity
The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904
Yehudah Mirsky
Hosted by
Matthew Miller
Avraham Yitzhaq Ha-Cohen Kook (1865-1935) stands as a colossal figure of modern Jewish history and thought. Jurist, mystic, poet, theologian, communal leader, founder of the modern Chief Rabbinate and still …
Jewish Studies
July 12, 2022
Refuge Must Be Given
Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish Plight, and the Founding of Israel
John F. Sears
Hosted by
Ari Barbalat
Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish Plight, and the Founding of Israel (Purdue UP, 2021) details the evolution of Eleanor Roosevelt from someone who harbored negative impressions of …
Israel Studies
July 11, 2022
Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons
Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis
Matt Reingold
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Akin Ajayi
Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis (Lexington Books, 2022) by Matt Reingold, published by Lexington Books as part of its Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature …
The Vault
July 8, 2022
On Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem"
A Discussion
Anthony Grafton, Rony Brauman, Margarethe von Trotta, and Pamela Katz
Hosted by
New York Institute for the Humanities
In this episode from the Institute’s Vault, we have an excerpt from a two day symposium--“Hannah Arendt Right Now”--which explored the philosopher’s impact on the 21st Century. The 2006 event …
General History
July 5, 2022
On the Border
The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World
Shaul Adar
Hosted by
Miranda Melcher
On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World (Pitch Publishing, 2022) by Shaul Adar is the compelling tale of a football club sited …
Jewish Studies
July 4, 2022
Rav Kook
Mystic in a Time of Revolution
Yehudah Mirsky
Hosted by
Matthew Miller
A powerfully original thinker, Rav Kook combined strict traditionalism and an embrace of modernity, Orthodoxy and tolerance, piety and audacity, scholasticism and ecstasy, and passionate nationalism with profound universalism. Though …
Middle Eastern Studies
June 28, 2022
The Irish Imperial Service
Policing Palestine and Administering the Empire, 1922–1966
Seán William Gannon
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Roberto Mazza
Seán William Gannon's book The Irish Imperial Service: Policing Palestine and Administering the Empire, 1922–1966 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) explores Irish participation in the British imperial project after ‘Southern’ Ireland’s independence in 1922 …
Middle Eastern Studies
June 24, 2022
Nine Quarters of Jerusalem
A New Biography of the Old City
Matthew Teller
Hosted by
Roberto Mazza
In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn’t reflect the reality of …
Jewish Studies
June 22, 2022
Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust
Nathan A. Kurz
Hosted by
Amber Nickell
In Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust (Cambridge UP, 2020), Nathan A. Kurz charts the fraught relationship between Jewish internationalism and international rights protection in the second half of …
Middle Eastern Studies
June 22, 2022
European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948
Between Contention and Connection
Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri
Hosted by
Roberto Mazza
European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine (1918-1948) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) investigates the transnationally connected history of Arab Christian communities in Palestine during the British Mandate (1918-1948) through the lens of …
Human Rights
June 20, 2022
A History of False Hope
Investigative Commissions in Palestine
Lori A. Allen
Hosted by
Rine Vieth
Lori Allen’s A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine (Stanford UP, 2020) is a deep engagement with Palestinian political history through an examination of international commissions. Over twenty commissions …
Middle Eastern Studies
June 17, 2022
'The House of the Priest'
A Palestinian Life (1885-1954)
Sarah Irving, Charbel Nassif, and Karène Sanchez Summerer
Hosted by
Roberto Mazza
'The House of the Priest': A Palestinian Life (1885-1954) (Brill, 2022) presents and discusses the hitherto unpublished and untranslated memoirs of Niqula Khoury, a senior member of the Orthodox Church …
Middle Eastern Studies
June 3, 2022
Zionism and the Melting Pot
Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics
Matthew Mark Silver
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Roberto Mazza
Zionism and the Melting Pot: Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics (U Alabama Press, 2020) moves away from commonplace accounts of the origins of Jewish politics and focuses on the …
German Studies
June 2, 2022
Israel's Moment
International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949
Jeffrey Herf
Hosted by
Nicholas Misukanis
Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949 (Cambridge UP, 2021) is a major new account of how a Jewish state came to be forged …
Middle Eastern Studies
May 31, 2022
Spacing Debt
Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine
Christopher Harker
Hosted by
Mehdi Sanglaji
In Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine (Duke UP, 2020), Christopher Harker demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
May 30, 2022
The Israeli Druze Community in Transition
Between Tradition and Modernity
Randa Khair Abbas and Deborah Court
Hosted by
Renee Garfinkel
Randa Khair Abbas and Deborah Court's book The Israeli Druze Community in Transition: Between Tradition and Modernity (Cambridge Scholars, 2021) gives voice to the Israeli Druze through in-depth interviews with 12 …
Israel Studies
May 27, 2022
Searching for Peace
A Memoir of Israel (Part 2 of 2)
Ehud Olmert
Hosted by
Ari Barbalat
NB: This is part 2 of a two part interview with Ehud Olert. Part 1 is here. Written almost entirely from inside a prison cell, Searching for Peace: A Memoir …
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