The Tel Aviv Review

Ramle Remade: The Israelization of an Arab Town

February 21, 2015 00:21:49

Dr. Danna Piroyansky talks about the very Israeli concept of ‘mixed cities’ – the result of government-sanctioned mixing of Jewish and Arab populations.

What Did the Crusaders Ever Learn from Us?

February 20, 2015 00:22:35

Dr. Jonathan Rubin, a historian of the Medieval Levant at Tel Aviv University, specializes in the production of knowledge in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Don’t mention the ‘A’ word: The Israel-Palestine debate in South Africa

February 14, 2015

Dr. Sonja Narunsky-Laden discusses to what extent the legacy of Apartheid is evoked in the contemporary Israel-Palestine debate in South Africa.

Middle-of-the-Road Judaism: The Emergence of Modern Orthodoxy

February 13, 2015 00:23:22

Dr. Ephraim Chamiel discusses his book, ‘The Middle Way: The Emergence of Modern Religious Trends in Nineteenth-Century Judaism.’

Hebrew literature and the origins of Israeli malaise

February 7, 2015

Yigal Schwarz, professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, discusses his latest book, ‘The Zionist Paradox.’

Portrait of the Father of a Nation

February 6, 2015 00:24:14

Prof. Anita Shapira, one of Israel’s most eminent historians of Zionism, discusses her biography of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding prime minister.

The Holocaust: The Litmus Test of the Israeli Media

January 31, 2015 00:16:20

Dr. Oren Meyers of the University of Haifa analyzes the disproportionate role Holocaust-related imagery plays in the Israeli media debate.

Requiem for a bygone Jewish-Arab coexistence

January 30, 2015

Prof. Menachem Klein, a Middle East history professor, discusses his recent book ‘Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in Jersualem, Jaffa and Hebron.’

Ecologically underprivileged: Environmental justice in Israel

January 17, 2015

Dr. Neta Lipman, deputy director of the Israeli Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, talks about environmental justice.

Palestinian students and the struggle for nationhood: Past and present

January 16, 2015

Dr. Ido Zelkovitz, a Middle East scholar at Haifa University talks about his new book ‘Students and Resistance in Palestine: Books, Guns and Politics.’