Dr Yehuda Mirsky, associate professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University and author of the first biography of the maverick theologian and spiritual father of the settler movement to appear in English in over half a century.
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The army is one of the most masculine institutions in modern societies, which makes it a perfect target for a feminist critique.
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In the early years of statehood, Israeli culture was teeming with references to Africa. Israel’s fascination with the black continent derived from particular cultural, political and social contexts that are analyzed in a new book.
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Dr Daniel Gordis, author of “Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul,” explains why Israel’s sixth prime minister was the country’s most “Jewish” leader.
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A new exhibition at Beit Hatefutsot – the Museum of the Jewish People – explores the private life of the most unintentionally famous Jew of modern times.
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Prof. Michael Livingstone of the School of Law at Rutgers University, author of the forthcoming The Fascists and the Jews of Italy: Mussolini’s Race Laws 1938-1943, talks about this often overlooked episode in modern European history, and dwells on his unique perspective as a legal scholar.
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Elia Etkin of the School of History at the Tel Aviv University talks about her research of the history of the now-defunct Tel Aviv zoo between 1938-1958, amid a changing political, social and cultural climate.
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Prof. Yaacov Ro’i, author of “The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union,” discusses the specific features of the movement and what distinguished it from other dissident movements in the Communist bloc.
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