From Berlin, Talmudist and philosopher Oded Schechter gives The Bupkes a rare interview about how the nation-state of Israel, as an expression of Jewish nationalism, does not liberate the Jew but, to the contrary, subjugates him.

NB: Transcript is auto-generated, so errors — spelling and otherwise — are to be expected. This interview has been edited for clarity.

Further reading:

Christian Zionism

George Eliot, author

Daniel Deronda, novel

The Worms Mahzor

Israel’s National Library and ownership of Palestinian cultural property

The 1956 Suez war

A conversation with Wieland Hoban, the chair of Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost (Jewish Voice for just peace in the Middle East), about what it’s like to be on the same domestic intelligence list as neo-Nazis, foreign agents, and conspiracy cults — not to mention Germany’s second-largest party in parliament.

(NB: Transcript is auto-generated, so errors — spelling and otherwise — are to be expected.)

Further reading:

A conversation with writer/researcher Elia Ayoub on simple media narratives, a Hebrew-Yiddish throwdown, and the throughline of the politics of memory (and forgetting).