The birth of a Zionist myth
Dr Ofer Nurdheimer Nur talks about the inception of a prominent Zionist myth – the establishment in the early 1920s of the settlement of Upper Bitania.
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How Jews in the Jim Crow South Labored to be White
Dr. Caroline Light of Harvard University talks about her work on “The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South,” which analyses the circumstances that led to the establishment of a sizable Jewish charity network in the American South in the post-Reconstruction period.
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Terrorism in Cyberspace: The next generation
Prof. Gabriel Weimann of the University of Haifa takes host Gilad Halpern through the evolution of terrorist communication on the Internet.
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The Jew who defeated Hitler
Peter Moreira discusses his book, ‘The Jew Who Defeated Hitler: Henry Morgenthau Jr., FDR, And How We Won The War,’ with host Gilad Halpern.
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Holy matrimony: Zion and the Diaspora in 20th century Jewish thought
Prof. Yossi Turner discusses two major themes that became increasingly pivotal in the Jewish political philosophy of the 20th century.
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The individual and the social in psychoanalysis
Prof. Uri Hadar of Tel Aviv University talks about his book ‘Psychoanalysis and Social Involvement: Interpretation and Action.’
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Protecting Jews in Interwar Europe: How International Law Tried and Failed
Prof. Carole Fink explains about how Europe’s Jews fit into the numerous minority protection schemes that emerged on the continent in the interwar period.
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Crypto-Jewish women: The unwitting standard-bearers of Judaism
Prof. Renee Levine Melammed shares with us her insights from her momentous study about the history of crypto-Jewish women in Spain under the Inquisition.
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The Birth of the Cosmopolitan Jew
Prof. Sander Gilman, who teaches history at Emory University in the US, is an extremely prolific academic with a vast spectrum of fields of expertise. He discusses his cleverly entitled study, “Aliens vs Predators: Cosmopolitan Jews vs Jewish Nomads.”
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More than moneylending: The economic history of the Jews
Economist Zvi Eckstein of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya offers an compelling reason for demographic meanders of Jewish people in the common era.
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