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
Read MoreWe 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
Read MoreDavid 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
Read MoreProf. 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?
Read MoreOren 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
Read MoreShuli 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
Read MoreDr Tamir Hod discusses his book on the Demjanjuk affair of the 1980s and 1990s – the trial and eventual acquittal of Ukrainian-American John Demjanjuk
Read MoreTamar Hermann, Senior Research Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, discusses the 20th edition of the annual Democracy Index, the most comprehensive annual survey of Israeli public opinion on matters of public importance
Read MoreSteven Fine discusses “The Samaritans: A Biblical People,” a documentary film, edited book and museum exhibition dedicated to the Samaritans, a tiny ethnoreligious group native to Israel and Palestine
Read MoreDr. Gilad Malach, the director of the “Ultra-Orthodox in Israel” program at the Israel Democracy Institute, discusses the latest “Haredi Report”, published annually by the IDI
Read MoreDr Omer Einav, a historian at Hadassah Academic College, discusses his book “Defending the Goal: Football and the relations between Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine, 1917-1948”
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