The Tel Aviv Review

The Uncertain Beginning of a Special Relationship

Roni Stauber, Professor of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, discusses his book “Diplomacy in the Shadow of Memory: Israel and West Germany, 1953-1965”

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Text, Subtext, Context: Monitoring Antisemitism Online

Dr Matthias Becker, research fellow at Reichman University and the University of Cambridge, discusses his Decoding Antisemitism project, using novel scholarly and technological tools to monitor and analyze online hate speech

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Hate but Were Afraid to Ask

Eran Halperin discusses his new book, “Warning: Hate Ahead.” Why is hate such a powerful emotion, and what can be done to contain it?

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Israeli Exceptionalism?

Dr Yoav Fromer discusses his new book (co-edited with Ilan Peleg), The Americanization of the Israeli Right

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A Jewish Roadmap for a People in Crisis

Joshua Leifer, an American journalist and PhD candidate in history at Yale University, discusses his new book, “Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life”

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Impersonality Disorders

Eviatar Zerubavel, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Rutgers University, discusses his new book “Don’t Take It Personally: Personalness and Impersonality in Social Life”

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Early Israel’s ‘Emotional Regime’

Prof. Orit Rozin discusses her new book “Emotions of Conflict: Israel 1949-1967,” analyzing the efforts of the Israeli establishment in the 1950s and 60s to control the people’s emotional response to the impending sense of insecurity

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A Forgotten Aliyah, Remembered

Liora Halperin, Professor of International Studies and History and Distinguished Endowed Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, discusses her book “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past”

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The Desert: A Cultural History

Yael Zerubavel, Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and History at Rutgers University, discusses her new book “Desert, Island, Wall: Symbolic Landscapes and the Politics of Space in Israeli Culture”

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The Rise of Israeli Diaspora

Dr. Jonathan Grossman explores Israel’s evolving attitude and discourse toward Israeli emigrants, shifting from viewing them as selfish deserters to embracing them as loyal partners, fostering a legitimate and valuable diaspora community abroad

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