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NBN Episodes hosted by Yaacov:

Peter Bergamin, "The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology” (I. B. Tauris, 2019)

January 31, 2020

The Making of the Israeli Far-Right

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 …

Joyce Dalsheim, "Israel Has a Jewish Problem: Self Determination as Self Elimination" (Oxford UP, 2019)

January 2, 2020

Israel Has a Jewish Problem

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 surprisin…

Seyed Ali Alavi, "Iran and Palestine: Past, Present, and Future" (Routledge, 2019)

December 24, 2019

Iran and Palestine

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…

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, "Revolution and Its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

October 8, 2019

Revolution and Its Discontents

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…

Kfir Cohen Lustig, "Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs: Israeli and Palestinian Literature of the Global Contemporary" (Verso, 2019)

September 24, 2019

Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs

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: Is…

Smadar Lavie, "Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture (Revised Edition)" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)

October 23, 2018

Wrapped in the Flag of Israel

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…

Jamie Stern-Weiner, "Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestine’s Toughest Questions" (OR Books, 2018)

July 19, 2018

Moment of Truth

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 woul…

Guy Burton, "Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1947" (Lexington Books, 2018)

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…

Yaron Peleg, "Directed by God: Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television" (U Texas Press, 2016)

June 12, 2018

Directed by God

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 grow…

Michael Brenner, "In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2018)

April 30, 2018

In Search of Israel

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…

Michal Kravel-Tovi, "When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel" (Columbia UP, 2017)

April 25, 2018

When the State Winks

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 …

Ian Black, "Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017)

March 2, 2018

Enemies and Neighbors

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 o…

Ella Shohat, "On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements" (Pluto Press, 2017)

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 c…

David Jacobson, "The Charm of Wise Hesitancy: Talmudic Stories in Contemporary Israeli Culture" (Academic Studies Press, 2017)

November 28, 2017

The Charm of Wise Hesitancy

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 S…

Benjamin Brown, "The Haredim: A Guide to Their Beliefs and Sectors" (Am-Oved, 2017)

November 16, 2017

The Haredim

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 Hebr…

Mya Guranieri Jaradat, "The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel's New Others" (U Chicago Press, 2017)

October 19, 2017

The Unchosen

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, oft…

Yakov M. Rabkin, "What Is Modern Israel?" (U Chicago Press, 2016)

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 som…