Tel Aviv Review

Judaism and Liberalism: Brothers From Another Mother

Dr Shivi Greenfield discusses his book, “Judaism and Liberalism: A Metaphysical Tale of Two Siblings,” in which he claims that not only can the two coexist, they also stem from the same metaphysical source

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From the Sea They Came: Migration, Humanity and International Law

Itamar Mann, Professor of Law at the University of Haifa, discusses his book “Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law”

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Safed: A Reality and a Metaphor

Prof. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin’s new book, “Mishna Consciousness, Biblical Consciousness,” considers Safed (Tzfat), the old Jewish center in the Galilee, as the crux of a religious and political worldview that could – and still might – pose an alternative to the prevalent one

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Public Enemy No. 1

Yuli Novak, the former director of Breaking the Silence, the IDF veterans’ organization, reflects in her new memoir, “Who Do You Think You Are,” on her 2012-2017 tenure at the helm of the most reviled human rights group in Israel

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The “History Will Judge Us” Edition

We discuss the open letter of more than 160 renowned historians of Jews, Judaism and/or Israel, titled “Israel on the Edge of an Abyss,” with its author, the brilliant historian Orit Rozin

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Hitler’s Willing Profiteers

David de Jong discusses his book, “Nazi Billionaires: The Dark Histories of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties,” a collective biography of Nazi Germany’s top industrialists and their heirs, shedding light on the dark corners of Germany’s postwar Denazification

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Our Republic: Ben Gurion’s Constitutional Vision

Prof. Nir Keidar discusses his book “David Ben Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy.” How did Israel’s founding father conceptualize the Republican idea and adapt it to the unique reality of the State of Israel, and in what ways is the Netanyahu Government’s judicial overhaul a contradiction of the original vision?

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Intifada 1.0

Oren Kessler, journalist and author, discusses his new book “Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict,” dedicated to one of the key moments in the history of Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine and Israel

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This Land Will Be Shared

Shuli Dichter, a veteran activist for a Jewish-Arab shared society in Israel, discusses his political memoir. The timing of its publication in English, when Israel seems to be moving in the opposite direction, is not a coincidence

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The Demjanjuk Affair: A Study in the Culture of Memory

Dr Tamir Hod discusses his book on the Demjanjuk affair of the 1980s and 1990s – the trial and eventual acquittal of Ukrainian-American John Demjanjuk

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