Babel in Zion: The Inculcation of Hebrew in Pre-State Israel
We speak to the author of “Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism and Language Diversity in Palestine 1920-1948.”
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Zeruya Shalev’s teddy bear wars
“His small, perpetually dirty hands with their closely-clipped nails fumble… but then he grabs one of the stuffed animals and hurls it at me.”
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We’re All Going on a Summer Hofesh
It’s summertime and everybody is going somewhere for hofesh, holiday. That being the case, lets go over vacation-related terminology in Hebrew.
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Scorched by the Sun
“I sit at the entrance of the labyrinth / in which my country has vanished. / I don’t know why my country is lost / or what I should do to reclaim it.”
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The very first woman of the wall
Bonna Devora Haberman, a scholar, writer, and playwright, shared the story of the birth of the Women of the Wall with host Rogel Alpher. Bonna passed away this week.
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Yeled, Who Are You Kidding?
‘Yeled’ – ‘child’ – comes from the root ‘y.l.d’ – י.ל.ד – which has made a huge career for itself in Semitic languages.
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Landscape Orientalism: Early photography in the Holy Land
Dr. Edna Barromi Perlman talks about the landscape photography in Israel and how it became an effective political and ideological tool.
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In Nepal, when you can’t trust the ground beneath your feet
A month after Nepal’s most destructive earthquake, Shoshi Shmuluvitz went to Kathmandu and the remote Ramechhap district with an Israeli NGO.
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Tal Nitzán’s interior design, exterior chaos
“… I went up to the roof / one day in May / a day that spread upon the sky a sheet / the shade of mustard of an orange of an H-bomb…”
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