Schooling the Nation
Hilary Falb-Kalisman, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, discusses her book, Teachers as State Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East .
Jan 08, 2024•28 min
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The Third Way to Peace and Justice
Dr Limor Yehuda, lecturer in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses her book Collective Equality: Human Rights and Democracy in Ethno-National Conflicts . Taking national identity seriously, she charts a new way of thinking about statehood and partition.
Dec 18, 2023•39 min
“We Are All Still Living October 7th”
Amir Tibon, diplomatic correspondent for Haaretz newspaper and a resident of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, survived the October 7th massacre with his wife and young daughters. He talks about his harrowing story, about Israel’s systemic failure to protect its citizens, what it will take for them to return to live less than a mile from Gaza City, and why he doesn’t regret having done it in the first place. This episode is made possible by the Israel office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , which promotes peace, f...
Dec 11, 2023•24 min
Before and After 1948: Gaza, a Prehistory
Dr. Dotan Halevy, environmental and social historian of the late Ottoman Empire and the Modern Middle East at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, discusses the history of Gaza from the mid-19th century until today. How did Gaza come to encapsulate 1948, and the essence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? This episode is made possible by the Israel office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , which promotes peace, freedom, and justice through political education....
Dec 04, 2023•43 min
“Hamas Is Not Going Anywhere”
Dr Michael Milstein, head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University’s Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and the former Head of the Palestinian Department for the IDF intelligence, analyzes what Israeli military leaders and political decision-makers got – and are still getting – wrong about Hamas. This episode is made possible by the Israel office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , which promotes peace, freedom, and justice through political education....
Nov 13, 2023•40 min
Hope. Yes, Hope
Dr Oded Adomi Leshem ( rethink-hope.com ), political psychologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses his new book Hope Amid Conflict: Philosophical and Psychological Explorations . The book was published in eerie proximity to Hamas’ Oct. 7th attack, which many see as having delivered a tremendous blow to the hope of a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dr Leshem’s facts and figures paint a more complex picture. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90...
Nov 06, 2023•38 min
Jerusalem as a Contested City: Role Model or Cautionary Tale?
Dr Marik Shtern, political geographer and a research fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Policy research, discusses his co-authored paper “Shared Spaces in Contested Cities: A Model for Analysis and Action.” Jerusalem is, at the same time, the most segregated and most integrated urban area in Israel/Palestine – what lessons can be drawn from the city’s experience? This episode is made possible by the Israel office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , which promotes peace, freedom, and justice through...
Sep 04, 2023•38 min
Land and Power: Understanding How the Politics of Space Shape Our Lives
Professor Oren Yiftachel discusses more than a decade of his scholarship on colonial regimes, identities and futures in Israel and Palestine through the lens of geography and urban planning.
Aug 28, 2023•41 min
Intractable Conflicts: Between Temptation and Resistance
Daniel Bar-Tal, professor (emeritus) of social psychology at Tel Aviv University, discusses his new book, Sinking into the Honey Trap: The Case of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict . How can social psychology contribute to our understanding of a conflict that never ends? The episode is sponsored by the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA and co-hosted by Prof David N. Myers....
Aug 21, 2023•40 min
Meet Jerusalem’s Top Catholic Monk
Abbot Nikodemus Schnabel, the head of Jerusalem’s Dormition Abbey, in conversation about Christian life in Israel (including of thousands of migrant workers), the nature of interfaith dialogue amid mounting extremism, the role of religion in diplomacy and conflict resolution, and more. This episode is made possible by the Israel office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , which promotes peace, freedom, and justice through political education.
Aug 14, 2023•39 min
Detente? Christian-Jewish Relations in the Postwar Era
Dr Karma Ben-Johanan, religion scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in modern Christianity and Jewish-Christian relations, discusses her new book Jacob's Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish relations after Vatican II . What were the implications of the Vatican's new approach to Judaism, announced in the 1960s, across the Catholic world and among Jewish theologians? This episode is made possible by the Israel office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , which promotes peace, freedom,...
Aug 07, 2023•35 min
What Do Israeli Haredim Really Care About?
Dr Nechumi Yaffe of Tel Aviv University’s School of Social and Policy Studies, the first ultra-Orthodox woman to serve as a faculty member in an Israeli university, discusses her research on ultra-Orthodox “capabilities” – a tool used by social scientists to measure the well-being and opportunities afforded to people – as well as the relationship between a Haredi lifestyle and higher education. The episode is sponsored by the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA and co-hosted by ...
Jul 31, 2023•37 min
The Forces of Nature
Irus Braverman, Professor of Law, Geography and Environmental Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo, discusses her book Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine/Israel . How does Israel's management of nature fit into its broader settler logic? Get a 40% percent discount with coupon code MN90160 (visit z.umn.edu/settlingnature )
Jul 24, 2023•42 min
Revolution and National Liberation
Tamir Sorek, professor of history at Penn State University specializing in Palestinian politics and culture in the State of Israel, discusses his book The Optimist: A social biography of Tawfiq Zayyad , the story of one of the foremost Palestinian politicians and intellectuals in Israel of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s
Jul 17, 2023•36 min
Withdrawal: The Continuation of Occupation by Other Means?
Dr Rob Geist Pinfold, a lecturer at Durham University’s School of Government and International Affairs, discusses his book Understanding Territorial Withdrawals: Israeli Occupations and Exits , offering a cross-section examination of several cases of territorial expansion and realignment throughout Israel’s history.
Jul 10, 2023•33 min
Man of the Night
Joseph Berger, formerly a New York Times journalist, discusses his book Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence , the first English-language biography of the iconic Jewish intellectual and Holocaust author.
Jul 03, 2023•29 min
This Is Israel
Isabel Kershner, Israel reporter for the New York Times, discusses her new book The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s Battle for its Inner Soul . This episode is made possible by the Israel office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , which promotes peace, freedom, and justice through political education.
Jun 26, 2023•37 min
Arabs, Israelis or Palestinians?
The Arab community in Israel is at a crossroads: the most right-wing government in the country’s history, and its plan for a judicial overhaul, casts doubt on the fragile relations between the state and its largest minority, as well as their perception of their citizenship and what it stands for. Dr. Arik Rudnitzky, the head of the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation at Tel Aviv University’s Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, unveils data of a new comprehe...
Jun 19, 2023•35 min
The Other ‘National Home’
Lerna Ekmekcioglu, Professor of History and Gender Studies at MIT, specializing in Turkish and Armenian history, discusses Armenian demands for a “national home” in the newly founded Turkish Republic, in the 1920s.
Jun 12, 2023•37 min
The Poetics of the Political, the Politics of the Poetic
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Professor (Emerita) of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses her book Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center , a reading of five constitutive Jewish texts that paints a comprehensive and thought-provoking portrait of Jerusalem as a physical and symbolic place.
Jun 05, 2023•39 min
Haredim in Israel: Success, but at What Cost?
Kimmy Caplan, Professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University, discusses his co-edited book Contemporary Israeli Haredi Society: Profiles, Trends and Challenges , building on an analysis combining sociological observations with a historical long-view. This episode is made possible by the Israel office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , which promotes peace, freedom, and justice through political education....
May 29, 2023•41 min
An Israeli’s Home Is His Fortress
Hagar Kotef, Professor of Political Theory at SOAS, University of London, discusses her book The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine , analyzing the concept of “home” as both a physical endeavor and an object of attachment, against the backdrop of the Zionist settlement and the dispossession of Palestinians that it entailed
May 22, 2023•29 min
Where Do We Go From Here?
Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator for the Financial Times, discusses his new book The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism . How have the failings of the late 20th-century economic system affected governance, and vice-versa?
May 15, 2023•41 min
Coalonialism (Rerun)
Prof. On Barak of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University discusses his book, Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization . He takes on a historical journey to think of energy in the historical context of the making of the Middle East as a region, during the long 19th century. Instead of thinking that we are in a transition from coal to oil to cleaner energies, he argues, we need to understand the persistence of coal in the ...
May 01, 2023•42 min
The Commodification of Citizenship
Dr Yossi Harpaz, sociologist at Tel Aviv University, discusses his book Citizenship 2.0 and how the relationship between citizenship and other sociological categories, such as migration and national identity, has evolved.
Apr 24, 2023•37 min
The Non-zionist Zionist
Jonathan Graubart, professor of political science at San Diego State University, discusses his book Jewish Self-Determination Beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and Other Pariahs , offering a contemporary re-evaluation of early 20th-century thought on Jewish sovereignty and statehood. This episode is part of a series co-sponsored by UCLA’s Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, and co-hosted by its director, Prof. Dov Waxman...
Apr 17, 2023•38 min
Emotional Zionists
Derek Penslar, professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, discusses his forthcoming book Zionism: An Emotional State , an interdisciplinary attempt to study the history of Jewish nationalism through a history of emotions lens. Join us on Patreon and help support the show
Apr 03, 2023•44 min
Judaism and Liberalism: Brothers From Another Mother
Dr Shivi Greenfield, political theorist and Deputy Director General for Strategy and Planning, discusses his book Judaism and Liberalism: A Metaphysical Tale of Two Siblings . In it, he claims that not only can the two coexist, they also stem from the same metaphysical source.
Mar 27, 2023•33 min
From the Sea They Came: Migration, Humanity and International Law
Itamar Mann, Professor of Law at the University of Haifa, specializing, among other things, in international law and legal theory, discusses his book Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law .
Mar 20, 2023•36 min
Safed: A Reality and a Metaphor
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Professor of Jewish History at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, specializing in religious and political thought in early modern and contemporary Judaism, discusses his new book Mishna Consciousness, Bible Consciousness: Safed and Zionist Culture . The book considers Safed (Tzfat), the old Jewish center in the Galilee, as the crux of a religious and political worldview that could – and still might – pose an alternative to the prevalent one. The episode is sponsored by...
Mar 13, 2023•46 min
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