Tel Aviv Review

Joel Migdal, professor of international studies at the

Song: Jango - Yoter Mehakol

This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by

Dr. Shayna Weiss, a Jewish history scholar and post-doctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University, traces with host Gilad Halpern the origin of gender segregation at beaches in Tel Aviv, and the surprising roles that religion, propriety, and Zionism played in it.

Song: Hadorbanim - Shuv Hadisco Kan

This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Dr. Shayna Weiss, a Jewish history scholar and post-doctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University, traces with host Gilad Halpern the origin of gender segregation at beaches in Tel Aviv, and the surprising roles that religion, propriety, and Zionism played in it.

Song: Hadorbanim - Shuv Hadisco Kan

This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Dr. David Hadar, a literary scholar and post-doctoral fellow at the Open University, analyzes with host Gilad Halpern the influence, overt and covert, of the Jewish-American novelist on the much younger Israeli-Arab author, drawing parallels between their troubled literary personas.

Song: Matisyahu - Sunshine

This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Dr. David Hadar, a literary scholar and post-doctoral fellow at the Open University, analyzes with host Gilad Halpern the influence, overt and covert, of the Jewish-American novelist on the much younger Israeli-Arab author, drawing parallels between their troubled literary personas.

Song: Matisyahu - Sunshine

This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Dr. Nir Arielli, a lecturer in international history and politics at the University of Leeds, UK, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the tumultuous life of his great aunt, Leah Trachtman-Palchan, a Communist activist who was deported from British-ruled Palestine to the Soviet Union only to reconnect with her Zionism decades later. Her edited memoir, Between Tel Aviv and Moscow: A Life of Dissent and Exile in Mandate Palestine and the Soviet Union, has recently appeared in English.

Song: Leah Shabat - Sod Hadvarim Hapshutim

This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Dr. Nir Arielli, a lecturer in international history and politics at the University of Leeds, UK, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the tumultuous life of his great aunt, Leah Trachtman-Palchan, a Communist activist who was deported from British-ruled Palestine to the Soviet Union only to reconnect with her Zionism decades later. Her edited memoir, Between Tel Aviv and Moscow: A Life of Dissent and Exile in Mandate Palestine and the Soviet Union, has recently appeared in English.

Song: Leah Shabat - Sod Hadvarim Hapshutim

This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Dr. Dina Moyal, a historian specializing in the legal history of the Soviet Union, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the trials of Nazi criminals and collaborators in the Soviet Union during and in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, and how it reflects the Soviets' perception of the concept of justice.

Song: Maor Cohen - Hachi Yafa Baolam

This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Dr. Dina Moyal, a historian specializing in the legal history of the Soviet Union, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the trials of Nazi criminals and collaborators in the Soviet Union during and in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, and how it reflects the Soviets' perception of the concept of justice.

Song: Maor Cohen - Hachi Yafa Baolam

This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Host Gilad Halpern and Professor Yaarah Bar-On; the President of Oranim Teachers College and a historian of the kibbutz movement, analyse the crisis that has all but decimated the once illustrious centrepiece of Israel and Zionism and offers first thoughts about its potential rejuvenation.

Song: Yuval Dayan - Tenagen

This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israe