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Showcasing the latest in academic and professional research, and literature, about the Middle East

  • 43 minutes 30 seconds
    The Importance of Being Formally Educated

    Dr Tammy Hoffman, a research fellow and the Head of the Education Policy Program at the Israel Democracy Institute and a lecturer at Hakibbutzim College of Education, explains how public education can tackle the erosion of democratic norms and the adverse effects of social media on society.

    This episode is made possible by the Israel office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, which promotes peace, freedom, and justice through political education.

    4 November 2024, 11:32 am
  • 44 minutes 2 seconds
    Jewish and Demographic

    Historian Dr Nimrod Lin, Managing Editor of the Journal of Israeli History, discusses his forthcoming book People Who Count: Zionism, Demography and Democracy in Mandate Palestine.

    This interview is part of the "Democracy and Its Alternatives: The Origins of Israel's Current Crisis" conference, held at Brandeis University and organized in partnership with the Center for Jewish History in New York.

    21 October 2024, 4:47 am
  • 41 minutes 25 seconds
    The Uncertain Beginning of a Special Relationship

    Roni Stauber, Professor of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, discusses his book Diplomacy in the Shadow of Memory: Israel and West Germany, 1953-1965.

    This episode is made possible by the Israel office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, which promotes peace, freedom, and justice through political education.

    14 October 2024, 4:00 am
  • 41 minutes 30 seconds
    Text, Subtext, Context: Monitoring Antisemitism Online

    Dr Matthias Becker, research fellow at Reichman University and the University of Cambridge, discusses his Decoding Antisemitism project, using novel scholarly and technological tools to monitor and analyze online hate speech.

    This episode is made possible by the Israel office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, which promotes peace, freedom, and justice through political education.

    30 September 2024, 5:12 am
  • 51 minutes 16 seconds
    Everything You Wanted to Know About Hate but Were Afraid to Ask

    Eran Halperin, professor of psychology at the Hebrew University and the founding director of aChord, a leading research center dedicated to promoting social change in Israel through the tools of social psychology, discusses his new book, Warning: Hate Ahead. Why is hate such a powerful emotion, and what can be done to contain it?

    The episode is sponsored by the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA and co-hosted by Prof David N. Myers.

    23 September 2024, 4:00 am
  • 47 minutes 35 seconds
    Israeli Exceptionalism?

    Dr Yoav Fromer, a senior lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies and the head of the Center of US Studies at Tel Aviv University, discusses his new book (co-edited with Ilan Peleg), The Americanization of the Israeli Right.

    16 September 2024, 2:07 pm
  • 45 minutes 2 seconds
    A Jewish Roadmap for a People in Crisis

    Joshua Leifer, an American journalist (Dissent, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian) and PhD candidate in history at Yale University, discusses his new book Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life.

    The episode is sponsored by the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA and co-hosted by Prof David N. Myers.

    9 September 2024, 4:00 am
  • 30 minutes 27 seconds
    Impersonality Disorders

    Eviatar Zerubavel, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Rutgers University, discusses his new book “Don't Take It Personally: Personalness and Impersonality in Social Life.”

    2 September 2024, 4:00 am
  • 36 minutes 21 seconds
    Early Israel’s ‘Emotional Regime’

    Prof. Orit Rozin, a historian at Tel Aviv University, discusses her new book Emotions of Conflict: Israel 1949-1967, analyzing the efforts of the Israeli establishment in the 1950s and 60s to control the people's emotional response to the impending sense of insecurity.

    26 August 2024, 4:00 am
  • 33 minutes 16 seconds
    A Forgotten Aliyah, Remembered

    Liora Halperin, Professor of International Studies and History and Distinguished Endowed Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, discusses her book The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past.

    19 August 2024, 5:00 am
  • 39 minutes 50 seconds
    The Desert: A Cultural History

    Yael Zerubavel, Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and History at Rutgers University, discusses her new book Desert, Island, Wall: Symbolic Landscapes and the Politics of Space in Israeli Culture, which has just been published in Hebrew and is an updated version of her 2019 book Desert in the Promised Land.

    12 August 2024, 5:00 am
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