The Holocaust: The Litmus Test of the Israeli Media

Tel Aviv Review

English - January 26, 2018 06:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 141 ratings
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This episode originally aired on Jan 31, 2015.

Dr. Oren Meyers of the Department of Communications at the University of Haifa, co-author, together with Eyal Zandberg and Motti Neiger, of Communicating Awe: Media Memory and Holocaust Commemoration, analyzes with host Gilad Halpern the disproportionate role Holocaust-related imagery plays in the Israeli media debate.

This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.