Tel Aviv Review

Rabbi Binyamin: Zionism’s Ultimate Contrarian

Dr Avi-Ram Tzoreff discusses his new book, “R. Binyamin, Binationalism and Counter-Zionism,” dedicated to one of the most unusual Jewish and Zionist intellectuals of the 20th century

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Their War, Our War

Yaroslav Trofimov, chief foreign affairs correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, discusses his new book, “Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence.” What parallels can be drawn between Ukraine’s war with Russia and Israel’s with Hamas?

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Jews for Palestine, The First Generation

Dr Geoffrey Levin discusses his book which looks at a network of early anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian thought leaders, active in the immediate aftermath of the establishment of the State of Israel

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The Time They Wrote Old Dixie Up

Yael Sternhell, Prof. of History and American Studies at Tel Aviv University, discusses her book, “War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War,” a historians’ history which looks at Washington’s Civil War archive, rather than through it

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People of the Books

Yosef Halper, a legendary Tel Aviv bookdealer, discusses his book, “The Bibliomaniacs: Tales from a Tel Aviv Bookseller”

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Staying Alive: Mental Health in the Wake of October 7th

Prof. Jonathan Huppert discusses mental health response in the wake of the October 7th attack. Is Israel, a society riddled with trauma, facing unprecedented challenges?

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The Many Lives of Bruno Schulz

Benjamin Balint, an award-winning American-Israeli writer based at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, discusses the literary legacy of Bruno Schulz, the so-called Polish Kafka, which has been the subject of an international legal, cultural and diplomatic debate

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Schooling the Nation

Hilary Falb-Kalisman, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, discusses her book, “Teachers as State Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East”

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The Third Way to Peace and Justice

Dr Limor Yehuda, lecturer in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses her new book, which takes national identity seriously, and charts a new way of thinking about statehood and partition

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“We Are All Still Living October 7th”

Amir Tibon survived the Oct. 7th massacre with his wife and daughters. He talks about his harrowing story and what it will take for them to return to live less than a mile from Gaza City

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