Tel Aviv Review

Portrait of the Father of a Nation

February 6, 2015 00:24:14

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

The Holocaust: The Litmus Test of the Israeli Media

January 31, 2015 00:16:20

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

Requiem for a bygone Jewish-Arab coexistence

January 30, 2015

Prof. Menachem Klein, a Middle East history professor, discusses his recent book ‘Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in Jersualem, Jaffa and Hebron.’

Ecologically underprivileged: Environmental justice in Israel

January 17, 2015

Dr. Neta Lipman, deputy director of the Israeli Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, talks about environmental justice.

Palestinian students and the struggle for nationhood: Past and present

January 16, 2015

Dr. Ido Zelkovitz, a Middle East scholar at Haifa University talks about his new book ‘Students and Resistance in Palestine: Books, Guns and Politics.’

How the Bible became holy

January 10, 2015

Michael Satlow sheds some light on the selection and canonization processes over the centuries that brought the Bible to the special status it holds today.

In 1948, Palestine saw Jewish refugees too

January 9, 2015

Dr. Nurit Cohen Levinovsky tells the story of the tens of thousands of Israeli Jews who became refugees during the War of Independence.

You’re in the army now: How Judaism fell back in love with the military

January 3, 2015

Prof. Stuart Cohen, a political scientist specializing in diplomatic and military history, explains how WWI changed the attitude of Jews towards warfare.

Holocaust research: From academia to the public realm

January 2, 2015

Holocaust historian Prof. Deborah Dwork discusses the production of knowledge about the Holocaust in an academic environment.

Unforgettable and unforgivable: Narratives of betrayal in Holocaust survivors’ memoirs

December 13, 2014

We discuss the main themes that feature in memoirs written by Holocaust survivors – chief among them, a narrative of betrayal.