Tel Aviv Review – Full Show

A new film on Entebbe; and gendered perceptions of the life of Prophet Mohammed.

Prof. Meir Amor discusses the principles of the Mizrahi struggle; Dr. Susan Nashman Fraiman discusses the evolution of candle-lighting practices in Ashkenaz.

Dr. Avi Bareli talks about opposition to Ben-Gurion’s leadership from within his party; and Dr. Michal Aharony puts Hannah Arendt under the microscope.

Dr. Adia Mendelson-Maoz discusses her exploration of multiculturalism in Israel; Prof. Lev Grinberg analyzes moments of resistance in Israel.

Dr. Ofer Nurdheimer Nur discusses the Zionist myth of Upper Bitania, and Ella Ben Hagay discusses narratives of the Conflict among the US diaspora.

Prof. Gabriel Weimann discusses the evolution of terrorism in cyberspace; Dr. Caroline Light talks about Jews in the American South, post-Reconstruction.

Prof. Yossi Turner explores the evolution of Zionism and the Diaspora; and Peter Moreira discusses his book, ‘The Jew who Defeated Hitler.’

We discuss how international law tried and failed to protect the Jews of interwar Europe, and the relationship of the individual to the social.

Prof Sander Gilman on his study “Aliens vs Predators: Cosmopolitan Jews vs Jewish Nomads,” and a look at crypto-Jewish women in Spain under the Inquisition.

Economist Zvi Eckstein offers an original and compelling explanation of the demographic meanders of the Jewish people in the common era.