The Tel Aviv Review

The Samaritans: Then and Now

Steven 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

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Back on the Horse

Dr. 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

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Fair Play?

Dr 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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Has Liberalism Run Its Course?

Yoram Hazony discusses his book, “Conservatism: A Rediscovery,” advocating for ending the “marriage of convenience between conservatism and liberalism”

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Start the Revolution With Me

Rachel Azaria, CEO of Darkenu and a veteran public campaigner and former politician, discusses her book “Guided Revolution: A step-by-step manual towards social change in Israel”

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Mizrahi Jews and Palestinian Arabs: A Bilateral Triangle?

Prof. Hillel Cohen, historian of the Middle East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses his new book, which attempts to define Mizrahi politics in historical and contemporary contexts

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The Birth of a Nation: The Diplomatic Backstory of Israel’s Establishment

Prof. Jeffrey Herf discusses his new book which analyzes how Israeli independence benefited from the changing international landscape in the “twilight” period between the Second World War and the Cold War

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Tantura: The Massacre That Was

Filmmaker Alon Schwarz discusses his new documentary, Tantura, which reopens an episode from Israel’s War of Independence and a controversy that erupted in the 1990s

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Night Comes On: Ottoman Cities After Dark

Prof. Avner Wishnitzer discusses his book “As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities After Dark,” a groundbreaking social history of Istanbul and Jerusalem on the cusp of modernity

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Not an Oxymoron: Secular Believers in Israel

Prof. Hagar Lahav discusses her book “Women, Secularism and Belief: A Sociology of Belief in the Jewish-Israeli Secular Landscape”

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