Year: 2014
Let them eat carrots: The role of incentives in peace processes
Why do sanctions always gain the upper hand? Dr. Nimrod Goren, of Mitvim and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explains.
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Kids, try this at home: The formation of the Hebrew literary canon for children
Prof. Yael Darr discusses the not-so-dogmatic indoctrination of Hebrew-speaking children in the 1930s-1950s.
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Kids, try this at home: The formation of the Hebrew literary canon for children – The Tel Aviv Review
Prof. Yael Darr of the Program in Research of Child and Youth Culture at Tel Aviv University’s School of Cultural Studies and author of “Nation Building and the Hebrew Literary Canon for Children,” discusses the not-so-dogmatic indoctrination of Hebrew-speaking children in the 1930s-1950s.
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For richer or poorer, for better or verse – The Promised Podcast
Is Tel Aviv winning the European basketball championship “proof that Zionism has failed?” Should the minimum wage be boosted by a third? Why is Israel awash with poetry? Plus, new searing protest music by David Broza!
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Yaakov Shabtai’s vernacular – Israel in Translation
Discover Yaakov Shabtai’s single-paragraph novel, Past Continuous, the first truly vernacular work in the Hebrew language.
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Rogel Alpher with Dov Ber Cohen – Journeys
Dov Ben Cohen has led a life full of adventures in far-flung places. What’s left for him to do today? Rogel Alpher finds out.
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For better or verse: The state of poetry in Israel
We explore Hebrew poetry in translation, including Leah Goldberg and Yehuda Amichai.
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