Requiem for a bygone Jewish-Arab coexistence

Tel Aviv Review

English - January 30, 2015 07:27 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 141 ratings
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Requiem for a bygone Jewish-Arab coexistence

Prof. Menachem Klein, a Middle East history professor at Bar-Ilan University, discusses his recent book Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron. Jewish-Arab common identity in Palestine was later subsumed by mutually opposing national identities.

The Holocaust: The litmus test of the Israeli media

Dr. Oren Meyers of the Department of Communications at the University of Haifa, co-author of Communicating Awe: Media Memory and Holocaust Commemoration, analyzes the disproportionate role Holocaust-related imagery plays in the Israeli media debate.

Music:

Paul McCartney
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Cee Lo Green - Forget You