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NBN Episodes hosted by Yaacov:

Israel Studies January 31, 2020

The Making of the Israeli Far-Right

Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology

Peter Bergamin

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
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 of one of the most important propagators …
Israel Studies January 2, 2020

Israel Has a Jewish Problem

Self Determination as Self Elimination

Joyce Dalsheim

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
In Israel Has a Jewish Problem: Self Determination as Self Elimination (Oxford University Press, 2019), Joyce Dalsheim considers some of the surprising outcomes of the great Israeli experiment of re-imagining …
Israel Studies December 24, 2019

Iran and Palestine

Past, Present, and Future

Seyed Ali Alavi

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
In Iran and Palestine: Past, Present and Future (Routledge, 2019), Seyed Ali Alavi (SOAS University of London) surveys the history of the relationship between Iran – and especially the Islamic …
Middle Eastern Studies October 8, 2019

Revolution and Its Discontents

Political Thought and Reform in Iran

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
In this new book, Revolution and its Discontents, Political Thought and Reform in Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi’s (of Goldsmiths University of London) studies the rise and evolution …
Israel Studies September 24, 2019

Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs

Israeli and Palestinian Literature of the Global Contemporary

Kfir Cohen Lustig

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
Differently than existing accounts that concentrate on Israeli and Palestinian nationalism, Kfir Cohen Lustig's Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs: Israeli and Palestinian Literature of the Global Contemporary (Verso, 2019) …
Israel Studies October 23, 2018

Wrapped in the Flag of Israel

Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture (Revised Edition)

Smadar Lavie

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
In Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture (Revised Edition) (University of Nebraska Press, 2018), Smadar Lavie analyzes the racial and gender justice protest movements …
Israel Studies July 19, 2018

Moment of Truth

Tackling Israel-Palestine’s Toughest Questions

Jamie Stern-Weiner

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
Jamie Stern-Weiner’s new edited volume, Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestine’s Toughest Questions (OR Books, 2018) seeks to clarify what it would take to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict, to assess the …
Israel Studies June 18, 2018

Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1947

Guy Burton

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
In Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1947 (Lexington Books, 2018), Guy Burton, who teaches politics and international relations at the Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government, studies how …
Israel Studies June 12, 2018

Directed by God

Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television

Yaron Peleg

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
As part of its effort to forge a new secular Jewish nation, the nascent Israeli state tried to limit Jewish religiosity. However, with the steady growth of the ultraorthodox community …
Israel Studies April 30, 2018

In Search of Israel

The History of an Idea

Michael Brenner

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
In his new book, In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea (Princeton University Press, 2018), Professor Michael Brenner, a historian of Jews and of Israel who teaches both …
Israel Studies April 25, 2018

When the State Winks

The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel

Michal Kravel-Tovi

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
In When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel (Columbia University Press, 2017), Michal Kravel Tovi, associate professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Tel …
Israel Studies March 2, 2018

Enemies and Neighbors

Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017

Ian Black

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
In Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017), Ian Black, the former Middle East Editor of the Guardian, offers a comprehensive view …
Israel Studies January 16, 2018

On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements

Ella Shohat

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
Spanning several decades, the work of Ella Shohat, a Professor of Cultural Studies and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University, has introduced conceptual frameworks that fundamentally challenged conventional understandings …
Israel Studies November 28, 2017

The Charm of Wise Hesitancy

Talmudic Stories in Contemporary Israeli Culture

David C. Jacobson

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
In The Charm of Wise Hesitancy: Talmudic Stories in Contemporary Israeli Culture (Academic Studies Press, 2017), David Jacobson, Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University, offers an overview and detailed …
Israel Studies November 16, 2017

The Haredim

A Guide to Their Beliefs and Sectors

Benjamin Brown

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
In The Haredim: A Guide to their Beliefs and Sectors (Am-Oved and the IDI, 2017, in Hebrew), Benjamin Brown, a professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University, offers …
Israel Studies October 19, 2017

The Unchosen

The Lives of Israel's New Others

Mya Guarnieri Jaradat

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
In The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel's New Others (University of Chicago/Pluto Press, 2017), Mya Guarnieri-Jaradat offers her readers an intimate, often devastatingly gloomy portrait of the lives of Southeast …
Israel Studies October 4, 2017

What Is Modern Israel?

Yakov M. Rabkin

Hosted by Yaacov Yadgar
In What is Modern Israel? (University of Chicago/Pluto Press, 2016), Yakov Rabkin, a professor of history at the University of Montreal, discusses some of the most fundamental issues pertaining to …