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Dr. Omri Asscher discusses the "adaptation" of Israeli literature for American Jewish audiences with host Gilad Halpern, focusing on how translators and edit...

Dr. Boaz Lev Tov discusses the significance of oral history in revealing the everyday lives and connections of regular individuals in Israel over the years. ...

Prof. Hillel Cohen discusses in his book "1929: Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict" how the violent Palestinian uprising of August 1929 marked a signific...

Assaf Gamzou, curator at the Israeli Cartoon Museum, discusses a new exhibition showcasing Bible stories depicted in caricatures, exploring the connection be...

Journalist and political scientist Elliot Jager discusses his book "The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My Childlessness" with host Gilad Halpern, exploring th...

Professor Steven Gimbel discusses Albert Einstein's rise to fame as a celebrated scientist, focusing on his Jewish background and the factors that contribute...

Professor Monty Noam Penkower discusses the formative period of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict between 1933-1939, during which conflicting national movemen...

Professor Warren Brodsky, a music psychologist from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and author of "Driving With Music: Cognitive-Behavioral Implications,"...

Dr. Adi Moreno, a sociologist at the University of Manchester, discusses the impact of gay couples starting families on traditional notions of family and con...

Dr. Ron Schleifer discusses the concept of hasbara, a form of propaganda used in the Israeli-Arab conflict, in an interview with Gilad Halpern. Schleifer, an...

Dr. Cecile Kuznitz, director of Jewish Studies at Bard College, discusses the history of the Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO) in her book "YIVO and the Ma...

Dr. Assaf Nativ, a post-doctoral fellow in archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses the similarities and differences between prehistoric ...

Dr. Yonatan Mendel, director of the Center for Jewish-Arab Relations at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, discusses the politicization of Arabic teaching ...

In "The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of American Jews, 1938-1967," Jeffrey S. Gurock, a Jewish history professor at Yeshiva University, explores w...

Dr. Jonathan Rynhold, a political scientist at Bar-Ilan University and author of "The Arab-Israeli Conflict in American Political Culture," discusses why the...

Dr. Asaf Romirowsky discusses the role of American religious groups in diplomacy and refugee relief during Israel's War of Independence and its aftermath in ...

Professor Meir Zamir discusses his book, "The Secret Anglo-French War in the Middle East: Intelligence and Decolonization, 1940-1948," focusing on British in...

Dr. Moshe Berent, a political scientist at the Open University, discusses the concept of republicanism in Israeli politics in his book "A Nation Like All Nat...

Dr. Hilla Dayan, a sociologist, is pioneering the field of 'Occupation Studies,' focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She discusses the goals of thi...

Dr. Adam Rovner's book "In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands before Israel" explores the unsuccessful attempts to establish Jewish political entities in the...

Dr. Noa Lavie, a sociologist at Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College, explores the influence of capitalism and art on reality television in Israel and beyond. In ...

Noga Kadman, an Israeli researcher and tour guide, explores the depopulated Palestinian villages of 1948 in her book "Erased from Space and Consciousness." I...

Prof. Yosef Toby discusses Judeo-Arabic literature in Tunisia, highlighting the cultural richness of Tunisian Jews during a golden age and their struggle bet...

Professor Meron Medzini, a Japanologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the biographer of Golda Meir, offers a unique perspective on the former Isr...

Jonathan Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University, recently co-edited a book called "Lincoln and the Jews" with Benjamin Shapell,...

Dr. Gabriel Noah Brahm, an associate professor, discusses his upcoming book that explores the theoretical foundations behind anti-Israel sentiments in academ...

Professor Alon Confino discusses the Nazi vision of eliminating Jews from every aspect of existence in his book "A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination f...

Dr. Stefan Ihrig's book "Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination" explores how Turkish nationalism after WWI influenced the Nazis in the early Weimar era and beyond....

Dr. Paul Shrell-Fox, a rabbi and psychologist at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, discusses the development of Jewish intellect with h...

Dr. Michal Segal Arnold, a lawyer and political scientist, shares her experience living for a year as the only non-Indian in Reservation Prairie Island in so...

Omri Grinberg, an anthropologist at the University of Toronto, discusses his research with host Gilad Halpern, focusing on Palestinian "children of the junct...

Dr. Liora Halperin, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, discusses the promotion of the Hebrew language in pre-state Israel with host Gilad Hal...

Dr. Amira Halperin, an Israeli communications scholar, has conducted a unique study on the UK Palestinian diaspora, being the first Israeli researcher to do ...

Professor Jeffrey Herf discusses the attitudes of East Germany and the radical left in West Germany towards Israel from 1967 to 1989, exploring how these vie...

Professor Yosef Salmon from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev delves into the intricate relationship between Zionism and Judaism in his book "Do Not Provoke...

Dr. Edna Barromi Perlman, a photography scholar and professor at the University of Haifa, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the significance of landscape pho...

Dr. Edna Barromi Perlman discusses how early landscape photography in Israel became a powerful political and ideological tool, exploring the concept of Lands...

Nachum Shiloh, a PhD candidate at Tel Aviv University, discusses his research on the emergence of Saudi elites in the early 20th century with host Gilad Halp...

Prof. Roberta Ronsethal Kwall's new book "The Myth of the Cultural Jew" explores the idea that even secular Jews have been influenced by Jewish legal traditi...

The text discusses the emergence of elites in early 20th-century Saudi Arabia, highlighting the ultraconservative nature of the society, characterized by a c...

Dr. Susan Nashman Fraiman, an art historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses her research on the development of candle-lighting practices, pa...

Professor Meir Amor, a Mizrahi activist and sociologist at Concordia University, discusses the Mizrahi struggle with host Gilad Halpern, shedding light on th...

Dr. Michal Aharony from Beit Berl Academic College discusses her book "Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Total Domination" with host Gilad Halpern, focusing on...

Dr. Avi Bareli from Ben-Gurion University explores the power dynamics within Israel's ruling party, Mapai, during the early years of the state. Contrary to p...

This text explores the theories of Jewish-German philosopher Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism by examining testimonies from Holocaust victims and survivors. ...

Prof. Lev Grinberg from Ben-Gurion University discusses his book "Mo(ve)ments of Resistance," offering a new analysis of power dynamics between the governmen...

Dr. Adia Mendelson-Moaz discusses multiculturalism in Israel through literary works by various groups such as Arabs, Mizrahis, Russians, and Ethiopians, emph...

Dr. Ofer Nurdheimer Nur of Tel Aviv University discusses the origin of a significant Zionist myth surrounding the establishment of Upper Bitania in the 1920s...

Prof. Gabriel Weimann from the University of Haifa discusses the evolution of terrorist communication on the Internet with host Gilad Halpern. Dr. Caroline L...

Prof. Yossi Turner delves into the evolution of Zionism and the increasing political influence of Jewish communities worldwide in 20th-century Jewish thought...