Tel Aviv Review

All Her Daughters: The Story of Jerusalem’s Legendary Headmistress

Prof. Laura Schor, author of ‘The Best School in Jerusalem: Annie Landau’s School for Girls,’ discusses the extraordinary character of Annie Landau.

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Who owns the media in Israel?

Prof. Amit Schejter of Ben-Gurion University recently completed a study about electronic media concentration in Israel between 1984-2013.

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Israel’s Bedouin: Straddling the Line Between Tradition and Modernity

Dr. Sarab Abu Rabia-Queder, a researcher at Ben-Gurion University, specializes in the impact of higher education on Bedouin women.

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Ramle Remade: The Israelization of an Arab Town

Dr. Danna Piroyansky talks about the very Israeli concept of ‘mixed cities’ – the result of government-sanctioned mixing of Jewish and Arab populations.

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What Did the Crusaders Ever Learn from Us?

Dr. Jonathan Rubin, a historian of the Medieval Levant at Tel Aviv University, specializes in the production of knowledge in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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Middle-of-the-Road Judaism: The Emergence of Modern Orthodoxy

Dr. Ephraim Chamiel discusses his book, ‘The Middle Way: The Emergence of Modern Religious Trends in Nineteenth-Century Judaism.’

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Hebrew literature and the origins of Israeli malaise

Yigal Schwarz, professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, discusses his latest book, ‘The Zionist Paradox.’

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Portrait of the Father of a Nation

Prof. Anita Shapira, one of Israel’s most eminent historians of Zionism, discusses her biography of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding prime minister.

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The Holocaust: The Litmus Test of the Israeli Media

Dr. Oren Meyers of the University of Haifa analyzes the disproportionate role Holocaust-related imagery plays in the Israeli media debate.

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