The Tel Aviv Review

Were we ever socialist? The rise and fall of Israeli corporatism

July 10, 2015

Jonathan Preminger has just completed his PhD in labor struggles and representation in post-corporatist Israel.

My life as an Israeli in an Indian reservation

July 4, 2015

Dr. Michal Segal Arnold wrote her PhD thesis about the American Indian Movement, a Native American pressure group.

Are Jews really smarter?

July 3, 2015

While a glance at the current Israeli government might refute any notion that Jews are “smarter” than other groups, is there something in it?

Traveling sales boys: Palestinian ‘children of the junction’

June 27, 2015

“Children of the junction” are teenage boys from the West Bank who slip into Israel to work as peddlers.

Babel in Zion: The Inculcation of Hebrew in Pre-State Israel

June 26, 2015 00:19:39

We speak to the author of “Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism and Language Diversity in Palestine 1920-1948.”

Never Again? East German and Radical Left West German Attitudes to Israel

June 23, 2015 00:19:12

Between 1967-1989, against the backdrop of the memory of the Holocaust as well as the Cold War.

Stranger among us: An Israeli’s study of the UK Palestinian diaspora

June 20, 2015

Dr. Amira Halperin is the first ever Israeli researcher to study the UK Palestinian diaspora.

Jewish Orthodoxy in the grip of nationalism

June 13, 2015

Prof. Yosef Salmon explores the history of the relationship between Zionism and Judaism.

Landscape Orientalism: Early photography in the Holy Land

June 12, 2015

Dr. Edna Barromi Perlman talks about the landscape photography in Israel and how it became an effective political and ideological tool.

The Prince: The Emergence of Elites in Early 20th-Century Saudi Arabia

June 6, 2015 00:20:50

In our minds, Saudi Arabia, to this day, has been an ultraconservative, almost medieval society, with a clear hierarchy and a coercive leadership. But it turns out that is not exactly the case.