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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 …

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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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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 …