Prof. Ofer Shiff, author of the recently published ‘The Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel,’ talks about the American-Jewish leader.
The “cultural ambience” in the wake of the Six Day War, which blurred the boundaries between war and peace, was the main cause for the trauma of the Yom Kippur War.
The research of Hebrew University’s Dr. Hanan Harif has focused on Zionist intellectuals, who regarded the Jewish revival in the Land of Israel as part of the renaissance of the so-called ‘Orient.’
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, posits that Medieval Spain wasn’t the only ‘Golden Age’ in Jewish history.
Host Gilad Halpern talks to Dr Moshe Behar about at the radically different positions of Jewish intellectuals in Arab countries at the turn of the century.