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Judaism and Liberalism: Bro...

03.27.2023

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 ...

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03.27.2023 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 ...
03.20.2023 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.
03.13.2023 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 ...
03.06.2023 Public Enemy No. 1 Yuli Novak, the former director of Breaking the Silence, the IDF veterans’ organization, reflects in her new memoir, Who Do You Think You Are, on her 2012-2017 tenure at the helm of the most reviled human rights group in Israel. ...
02.27.2023 The “History Will Judge Us” Edition In this first-in-all-of-human-history, cross-over edition of TLV1’s Tel Aviv Review and TLV1’s The Promised Podcast, we discuss the open letter of more than 160 renowned historians of Jews, Judaism and/or Israel (“Israel on the Edge of an Abyss”), which opens, ...
02.20.2023 Hitler’s Willing Profiteers David de Jong, a Tel Aviv-based journalist for the Dutch Financial Daily, discusses his book Nazi Billionaires: The Dark Histories of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties. The book, a collective biography of Nazi Germany’s top industrialists and their heirs, sheds light on ...
02.13.2023 Our Republic: Ben Gurion's Constitutional Vision Prof. Nir Keidar, legal historian and President of Sapir College, discusses his book David Ben Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy. How did Israel's founding father conceptualize the Republican idea and adapt it to the unique reality of the ...
02.06.2023 Intifada 1.0 Oren Kessler, journalist and author, discusses his new book “Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict,” the first general-interest book in English dedicated to one of the key moments in the history of Jewish-Arab ...
01.30.2023 This Land Will Be Shared Shuli Dichter, a veteran activist for a Jewish-Arab shared society in Israel, discusses his political memoir Sharing the Promised Land: In Pursuit of Equality between Jewish and Arab Citizens in Israel. The timing of its publication in English, when Israel ...
01.23.2023 The Demjanjuk Affair: A Study in the Culture of Memory Dr Tamir Hod, a historian at Tel Hai college, discusses his book Did We Remember to Forget?, a study into the Demjanjuk affair of the 1980s and 1990s – the trial and eventual acquittal of Ukrainian-American John Demjanjuk, who was ...
01.16.2023 Battered but Not Broken: The Israel Democracy Index, 2022 Tamar Hermann, professor of political science at the Open University and Senior Research Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, discusses the 20th edition of the annual Democracy Index, the most comprehensive annual survey of Israeli public opinion on matters of ...
01.09.2023 The Samaritans: Then and Now Steven Fine, professor of Jewish History and Director of the Center for Israel Studies at Yeshiva University in New York, discusses The Samaritans: A Biblical People, a documentary film, edited book and museum exhibition dedicated to the Samaritans, a tiny ...
01.02.2023 Back on the Horse Dr. Gilad Malach, the director of the “Ultra-Orthodox in Israel” program at the Israel Democracy Institute, discusses the latest “Haredi Report”, published annually by the IDI. The ultra-Orthodox parties are back in government with a vengeance, after almost two years ...
12.27.2022 Fair Play? Dr Omer Einav, a historian at Hadassah Academic College, discusses his book Defending the Goal: Football and the relations between Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine, 1917-1948. This episode is made possible by the Israel office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, which promotes ...
12.19.2022 Has Liberalism Run Its Course? Yoram Hazony, President of the Herzl Institute and Chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, discusses his book Conservatism: A Rediscovery, advocating for ending the “marriage of convenience between conservatism and liberalism.” The episode is sponsored by the Sady and Ludwig ...
12.12.2022 Start the Revolution With Me Rachel Azaria, CEO of Darkenu, the largest civil society organization in Israel, a veteran public campaigner and former politician (Member of Knesset, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem), discusses her book Guided Revolution: A step-by-step manual towards social change in Israel. Why ...
12.05.2022 Mizrahi Jews and Palestinian Arabs: A Bilateral Triangle? Prof. Hillel Cohen, historian of the Middle East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses his new book Enemies, a love story: Mizrahi Jews, Palestinian Arabs and Ashkenazi Jews from the Rise of Zionism to the Present, an attempt to ...
11.28.2022 The Birth of a Nation: The Diplomatic Backstory of Israel’s Establishment Jeffrey Herf, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Maryland, discusses his new book Israel's Moment: International Support and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949, analyzing how Israeli independence benefited from the changing international landscape in the "twilight" ...
11.21.2022 Tantura: The Massacre That Was Filmmaker Alon Schwarz discusses his new documentary Tantura, which reopens an episode from Israel's War of Independence and a controversy that erupted in the 1990s, seeking to shed new light on the question whether Israeli troops committed a massacre of ...
11.14.2022 Night Comes On: Ottoman Cities After Dark Avner Wishnitzer, professor of Ottoman history at Tel Aviv University, discusses his book As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities After Dark, a groundbreaking social history of Istanbul and Jerusalem on the cusp of modernity.
11.07.2022 Not an Oxymoron: Secular Believers in Israel Hagar Lahav, professor of communication at Sapir Academic College, discusses her book Women, Secularism and Belief: A Sociology of Belief in the Jewish-Israeli Secular Landscape. This episode is made possible by the Israel office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, which promotes peace, freedom, ...
10.31.2022 Groundhog Election Day? Analyzing the Deep Trends of Israeli Politics Gideon Rahat, professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses the insights that emanate from The Elections in Israel 2019-2021, a book he co-edited with Prof. Michal Shamir. Is there any reason to believe that Israel’s fifth ...
10.24.2022 Mutual Exclusion: The Plight and Hope of a Left-Wing Religious Zionist Mikhael Manekin, a prominent Israeli activist (former director of Breaking the Silence and Molad) discusses his new book, A Dawn of Redemption, an attempt to address the ostensible contradiction between his progressive politics and his Modern Orthodox devotion. This episode ...
10.17.2022 Civil Society in an Islamic State: The Case of Charity in Saudi Arabia Dr. Nora Derbal, an Islamic Studies scholar and a Martin Buber Society Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses her book Charity in Saudi Arabia: Civil Society Under Authoritarianism.
09.19.2022 The State of Religion and State Shlomit Ravitsky-Tur Paz, head of the program on Religion, Nation and State and the director of the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Center for Shared Society at the Israel Democracy Institute, discusses some recent findings - some unprecedented - from the ...
09.12.2022 High and Holy Haggai Ram, professor of Middle East History at Ben Gurion University, discusses his book Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel.
09.05.2022 Re-Humanizing the Victims of the Nakba Adam Raz, historian at Tel Aviv University and Akevot – the Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research, has written several history books. His most recent work is a stage play – his first – The Personal Tragedy of Mr Sami Saada. ...
08.29.2022 “Coalonialism” 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 ...
08.22.2022 Multi-Layered Palestinian Presence Dr Andreas Hackl, anthropologist at the University of Edinburgh, discusses his new book, The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv.
08.15.2022 Ottoman Jews, Ottoman Palestinians Dr Louis Fishman, historian of modern Turkey and Israel/Palestine, discusses his book Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914, breaking down conventional wisdoms about politics and identity in Palestine on the eve of the First World War.
08.08.2022 The Comedy Network Matt Sienkiewicz, Professor of Communication and International Studies at Boston College, discusses his new co-authored book That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them, analyzing the reach and influence of openly right-wing comedians on old and new ...
08.01.2022 The Left Behind Avi Dabush, veteran social activist, Meretz politician and author of the new semi-autobiographical book The Periphery Rebellion: The Guide to a Much-Needed Revolution in Israeli Society, analyzes the origins of social inequalities in Israel and explains why the liberal left ...
07.25.2022 Out of Africa Dr. Naomi Shmuel, author and anthropologist, from the department of Folklore at the Hebrew University, discusses her book Generations of Hope: Traditions and Intergenerational Transferal with the Transition from Ethiopia to Israel, analyzing the hybrid identity of Israelis of Ethiopian ...
07.18.2022 Building on Shared Experiences: The Konrad Adenauer Foundation Marks 40 Years in Israel Prof. Norbert Lammert, the chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and former President of the German Bundestag, joins us in Tel Aviv for a conversation about the challenges of the liberal and democratic order in his native Germany and elsewhere, ...
07.11.2022 The New Sepharad: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Salonica (Rerun) Jewish history professor Aron Rodrigue of Stanford University was the keynote speaker at an international conference held this week at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, dedicated to the Jewish history of Salonica. In the late 15th century, the then-Ottoman city ...
07.04.2022 First, Do No Harm: Rashid Khalidi on US Peace-Blocking (Rerun) America has long been viewed as the quintessential broker of Israeli-Palestinian peace. In his book Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East, Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi argues that it's no accident peace has ...
06.27.2022 Are You There, Allah? It's Me, Haroon (Rerun) Growing up is the pits in the best of times. Growing up Muslim in America has special complexities. Being Muslim in America, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, coming of age during and after September 11, and becoming a public speaker on ...
06.20.2022 “I’m a Jewish Man in Love with a Hitler Youth” (Rerun) Jupp, Salomon (Sally) Perel’s Nazi alter ego, which he had to play to survive in the Second World War, hasn’t left him more than 70 years on. Perel’s hair-raising story, and the baggage that he carries to this day, have ...
06.13.2022 Upper West Bank: The Story of American-Born Settlers (Rerun) Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn, a lecturer in Israel Studies at Oxford University, discusses her book City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement, which attempts to explain why American-born Jews are disproportionately represented among immigrants who settled ...
06.06.2022 Badges and Gadgets: Israel’s High-Tech Army (Rerun) Yaakov Katz, the editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post newspaper, discusses his book Weapons Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower. This episode of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, ...
05.30.2022 The Wild West (Bank): The Allegory That Keeps on Giving (Rerun) Israeli novelist Assaf Gavron discusses his book, “The Hilltop: A Novel,” and explains why a secular Tel Avivian chose to set the plot in a remote Jewish outpost in the West Bank. More broadly, where do the personal and the ...
05.23.2022 A London Jewish Working Class Hero and His Twin Walk into a Sanatorium… (Rerun) And from that moment on, Linda Grant sets her cast of unlikely characters free - as much as possible in a TB clinic in 1950s London. The Dark Circle is her seventh novel. The protagonists are twin teens bursting with ...
05.16.2022 The Holocaust on the Outskirts Jan Grabowski, Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, discusses his new book (co-edited with Barbara Engelking) Night Without End: The Fate of Jews in German-Occupied Poland, focusing on the generally overlooked stories of the persecution and liquidation of ...
05.09.2022 How Did a Palestinian Terrorist Become Israel’s National Heart-Throb? (Rerun) How do you fight a war by becoming the enemy and still keep your identity? Who are the good guys who are the bad guys? What's the best action series on television today, why is it a psychological drama as ...
05.02.2022 The Broke Woke (Rerun) Batya Ungar-Sargon believes woke culture has created a smokescreen of racial identity politics that obfuscates the real force tearing American society apart: class inequality. But it took the liberal media to exponentially amplify the problem. Her new book Bad News: ...
04.25.2022 Kahane Lives On (Rerun) Although he came to prominence in Israel, as the undisputed emblem of the far-right, Rabbi Meir Kahane was a quintessential American Jew, claims Prof. Shaul Magid in his book, Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American ...
04.18.2022 Could It Happen To Us? (Rerun) In her bestselling Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, acclaimed journalist and historian Anne Applebaum examines how a wave of nationalist populism swept through the western world – and tore apart her own circle of friends. This episode ...
04.11.2022 The History, Memory And Myth Of The Kishinev Pogrom (Rerun) The Kishinev Pogrom of 1903 was among the seminal events of modern Jewish history. The violence was memorialized in ways that shaped Jewish identity, from the early Zionist national narrative to Jewish American social activism. Prof. Steven Zipperstein examines the ...
04.04.2022 My People, Our History (Rerun) Rashid Khalidi, a leading historian of the Palestinian national movement, weaves his family history into a century of the Palestinian national struggle against Israel and international forces seeking to thwart self-determination in his new book, The 100 Years’ War on ...
03.28.2022 The Right Stuff: When Israel Knew How to Compromise (Rerun) Two of the most prominent figures in America's efforts to advance a two-state solution, Ambassador Dennis Ross and David Makovsky, take a deep look at four Israeli leaders and their pivotal decisions. Their book, Be Strong and of Good Courage: ...

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Tel Aviv Review episodes:

Judaism and Liberalism: Brothers From Another Mother

From the Sea They Came: Migration, Humanity and International Law

Safed: A Reality and a Metaphor

Public Enemy No. 1

The “History Will Judge Us” Edition

Hitler’s Willing Profiteers

Our Republic: Ben Gurion's Constitutional Vision

Intifada 1.0

This Land Will Be Shared

The Demjanjuk Affair: A Study in the Culture of Memory

Battered but Not Broken: The Israel Democracy Index, 2022

The Samaritans: Then and Now

Back on the Horse

Fair Play?

Has Liberalism Run Its Course?

Start the Revolution With Me

Mizrahi Jews and Palestinian Arabs: A Bilateral Triangle?

The Birth of a Nation: The Diplomatic Backstory of Israel’s Establishment

Tantura: The Massacre That Was

Night Comes On: Ottoman Cities After Dark

Not an Oxymoron: Secular Believers in Israel

Groundhog Election Day? Analyzing the Deep Trends of Israeli Politics

Mutual Exclusion: The Plight and Hope of a Left-Wing Religious Zionist

Civil Society in an Islamic State: The Case of Charity in Saudi Arabia

The State of Religion and State

High and Holy

Re-Humanizing the Victims of the Nakba

“Coalonialism”

Multi-Layered Palestinian Presence

Ottoman Jews, Ottoman Palestinians

The Comedy Network

The Left Behind

Out of Africa

Building on Shared Experiences: The Konrad Adenauer Foundation Marks 40 Years in Israel

The New Sepharad: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Salonica (Rerun)

First, Do No Harm: Rashid Khalidi on US Peace-Blocking (Rerun)

Are You There, Allah? It's Me, Haroon (Rerun)

“I’m a Jewish Man in Love with a Hitler Youth” (Rerun)

Upper West Bank: The Story of American-Born Settlers (Rerun)

Badges and Gadgets: Israel’s High-Tech Army (Rerun)

The Wild West (Bank): The Allegory That Keeps on Giving (Rerun)

A London Jewish Working Class Hero and His Twin Walk into a Sanatorium… (Rerun)

The Holocaust on the Outskirts

How Did a Palestinian Terrorist Become Israel’s National Heart-Throb? (Rerun)

The Broke Woke (Rerun)

Kahane Lives On (Rerun)

Could It Happen To Us? (Rerun)

The History, Memory And Myth Of The Kishinev Pogrom (Rerun)

My People, Our History (Rerun)

The Right Stuff: When Israel Knew How to Compromise (Rerun)