Tel Aviv Review
654 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsShowcasing the latest developments in the realm of academic and professional research and literature, about the Middle East and global affairs. We discuss Israeli, Arab and Palestinian society, the Jewish world, the Middle East and its conflicts, and issues of global and public affairs with scholars, writers and deep-thinkers.
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Israel in Theory: "Israel fetish" in Western academia
July 24, 2015 05:58 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBDr. Gabriel Noah Brahm, associate professor of English at Northern Michigan University, is probably best known for co-editing the comprehensive The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel. Today he talks to host Gilad Halpern about his forthcoming book, which dissects the theoretical underpinnings of the writing of Israel-bashers in academia around the world.
How the Nazis imagined a world without Jews
July 17, 2015 15:08 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBProf. Alon Confino, a historian at the University of Virginia and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, recently had his book A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide published in English by Yale University Press. Prof. Confino talks to host Gilad Halpern about the Nazi desire to remove the Jews not only from the present and the future, but also from the past.
Hitler and Atatürk: How Turkish nationalism inspired the Nazis
July 17, 2015 14:59 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBDr. Stefan Ihrig, a historian and post-doctoral fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, recently had his book Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination published in English by Harvard University Press. Dr. Ihrig tells host Gilad Halpern how rising Turkish nationalism in the wake of WWI served as valuable inspiration for the Nazis in the early Weimar years and beyond.
Are Jews really smarter?
July 09, 2015 13:19 - 14 minutes - 10 MBDr. Paul Shrell-Fox, a rabbi and psychologist at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, tries to answer the question that's been troubling us for centuries. He explains to host Gilad Halpern how the Jewish intellect has developed over the years.
My life as an Israeli in an Indian reservation
July 09, 2015 13:19 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBDr. Michal Segal Arnold, a lawyer and political scientist, wrote her PhD thesis at the University of Pennsylvania about the American Indian Movement, a Native American pressure group. She explains to host Gilad Halpern how she lived for a year as the only non-Indian in Reservation Prairie Island in south-east Minnesota.
Traveling sales boys: Palestinian 'children of the junction'
June 26, 2015 10:48 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBOmri Grinberg, an anthropologist at the University of Toronto, tells host Gilad Halpern about his research that focuses on the ethnography of the so-called Palestinian "children of the junction" – teenage boys from the West Bank who slip into Israel to work as peddlers.
Babel in Zion: The inculcation of Hebrew in pre-state Israel
June 26, 2015 10:38 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBDr. Liora Halperin, assistant professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, author of Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism and Language Diversity in Palestine 1920-1948, tells host Gilad Halpern about the ideological as well as the practical aspects of the inculcation of the Hebrew language in pre-state Israel.
Stranger among us: An Israeli's study of the UK Palestinian diaspora
June 20, 2015 16:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBDr. Amira Halperin, a communications scholar who has recently completed her PhD thesis at the University of Westminster, UK, is the first ever Israeli researcher to study the UK Palestinian diaspora. She discusses this community's use of new media with host Gilad Halpern.
Never again? East German and radical left West German attitudes to Israel
June 19, 2015 16:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBJeffrey Herf, a distinguished professor of history at the University of Maryland, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the attitude of East Germany and the West German radical left towards Israel between 1967-1989, against the backdrop of the memory of the Holocaust as well as the Cold War.
Jewish Orthodoxy in the grip of nationalism
June 11, 2015 14:12 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBProf. Yosef Salmon, a Jewish history professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, is the author of Do Not Provoke Providence: Orthodoxy In The Grip Of Nationalism, which was recently published in English by Academic Studies Press. He explores the history of the relationship between Zionism and Judaism with host Gilad Halpern.
Landscape Orientalism: Early photography in the Holy Land
June 11, 2015 13:56 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBDr. Edna Barromi Perlman, a photography scholar and professor at the University of Haifa, speaks to host Gilad Halpern about the landscape photography in Palestine/Eretz Israel/the Holy Land, and how it became, just like anything else in the history of this place, an effective political and ideological tool.
Landscape Orientalism: Early photography in the Holy Land
June 11, 2015 13:38 - 13.9 MBDr. Edna Barromi Perlman talks about the landscape photography in Israel and how it became an effective political and ideological tool.
The Prince: The emergence of the elites in early 20th-century Saudi Arabia
June 06, 2015 16:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBNachum Shiloh, who's about to complete his PhD at Tel Aviv University's Department of History, talks to host Gilad Halpern about his research that focuses on the history of Saudi elites in the first half of the 20th century. In our minds, Saudi Arabia, to this day, has been an ultraconservative, almost medieval society, with a clear hierarchy and a coercive leadership. But it turns out that is not exactly the case.
The myth of the cultural Jew
June 05, 2015 16:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBProf. Roberta Ronsethal Kwall, a legal scholar and the founding director of the DePaul University College of Law, has just authored a new book entitled The Myth of the Cultural Jew – Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition. She explains to host Gilad Halpern why even the most secular Jews have imbibed the halakha, whether they like it or not.
The Prince: The emergence of elites in early 20th-century Saudi Arabia
June 02, 2015 15:08 - 20 minutes - 9.53 MBSaudi Arabia has always seemed an ultraconservative society, with a clear hierarchy and a coercive leadership.
Let there be light! The evolution of candle-lighting practices in Ashkenaz
May 22, 2015 08:47 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBDr. Susan Nashman Fraiman, an art historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, tells host Gilad Halpern about her recent research, which focuses on the emergence and evolution of candle-lighting practices – namely, the Shabbat Lamp – among the Jews of Ashkenaz.
On the beneficiaries and victims of ‘Ashkenazi privilege’ in Israel
May 22, 2015 08:38 - 21 minutes - 15 MBProf. Meir Amor, an Israeli sociologist teaching at Concordia University in Canada, has been a Mizrahi activist for decades, as well as a long-time researcher of the Mizrahi question. Prof. Amor talks to host Gilad Halpern about the principles of the Mizrahi struggle, theoretical as well as practical.
Hannah Arendt under the microscope
May 15, 2015 07:41 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBDr. Michal Aharony, political philosophy and Holocaust studies professor at Beit Berl Academic College, recently authored Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Total Domination: The Holocaust, Plurality and Resistance. Dr. Aharony talks to host Gilad Halpern about her work, which evaluates the Jewish-German philosopher's theories on totalitarianism through testimonies of Holocaust victims and survivors.
Le parti c'est moi: Ben-Gurion and Mapai party politics in the early state years
May 15, 2015 07:17 - 18 minutes - 12.4 MBDr. Avi Bareli, a historian of Zionism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, recently authored Authority and Participation in a New Democracy: Political Struggles in Mapai, Israel's Ruling Party, 1948-1953. Dr. Bareli talks to host Gilad Halpern about opposition to Ben-Gurion's leadership from within the party, and how Israel's first prime minister was much less of a power-hungry, dictatorial leader than often thought.
Hannah Arendt under the microscope
May 13, 2015 12:42 - 17.4 MBEvaluating the Jewish-German philosopher's theories on totalitarianism through testimonies of Holocaust victims and survivors.
Moments and movements of resistance in Israel and beyond
May 09, 2015 10:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBProf. Lev Grinberg, a sociologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, joins host Gilad Halpern to discuss his new book Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Politics, Economy and Society in Israel/Palestine 1931-2013. He gives a fresh analysis of power relations between the political hegemony and the people, exploring seven instances in the history of Israel.
Multiculturalism in Israel: Literary Perspectives
May 08, 2015 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.2 MBDr. Adia Mendelson-Moaz of the department of Literature, Language and the Arts at Israel's Open University joins host Gilad Halpern to talk about her exploration of literary works written by four Israeli groups - Arabs, Mizrahis (Jews of Middle Eastern origin), Russians, and Ethiopians - focusing on the tension between collective and particular identities.
The birth of a Zionist myth
April 25, 2015 06:22 - 47 minutes - 43 MBThe birth of a Zionist myth Dr. Ofer Nurdheimer Nur of Tel Aviv University talks about the inception of a prominent Zionist myth – the establishment in the early 1920s of the settlement of Upper Bitania by a highly ideological group of immigrants from central Europe. Hillel House: Key player in identity politics Ella Ben Hagay, a social psychologist at University of California in Santa Cruz, talks about her current research, which focuses on the circulation of narratives associated with t...
Terrorism in Cyberspace: The next generation
April 17, 2015 07:07 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBTerrorism in Cyberspace: The next generation Prof. Gabriel Weimann of the department of Communication studies at the University of Haifa has been studying terrorist communication on the Internet for almost two decades. He takes host Gilad Halpern through its evolution. How Jews in the Jim Crow South labored to be white Dr. Caroline Light of Harvard University talks about her recent work with host Gilad Halpern. It analyses the circumstances that led to the establishment of a sizable Jewis...
Holy matrimony: Zion and the Diaspora in 20th century Jewish thought
April 02, 2015 14:32 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBZion and the Diaspora in 20th century Jewish thought Prof. Yossi Turner, who teaches modern Jewish philosophy at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, explores the evolution of Zionism, and the integration and growing political power of Jewish communities around the world. The Jew who defeated Hitler Peter Moreira discusses his book, The Jew who Defeated Hitler: Henry Morgenthau Jr., FDR, And How We Won The War. Its protagonist was instrumental in financing what was then...
Protecting Jews in interwar Europe: How international law tried and failed
March 27, 2015 12:23 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBProtecting Jews in interwar Europe Prof. Carole Fink, a historian at Ohio State University in the US, tells us about how Europe's Jews fit into the numerous minority protection schemes that emerged on the continent in the interwar period, and about the road to their catastrophic breakdown. The individual and the social in psychoanalysis Prof. Uri Hadar of the School of Psychological Sciences at Tel Aviv University talks about his book Psychoanalysis and Social Involvement: Interpretation ...
The birth of the cosmopolitan Jew – The Tel Aviv Review
March 20, 2015 14:00 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBThe birth of the cosmopolitan Jew Prof. Sander Gilman, who teaches history at Emory University in the US, is an extremely prolific academic with a vast spectrum of fields of expertise. He discusses his latest study, cleverly entitled "Aliens vs Predators: Cosmopolitan Jews vs Jewish Nomads." The unwitting standard-bearers of Judaism Prof. Renee Levine Melammed, a senior faculty member at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, shares with us her insights from her momentous...
TLV1’s Live Election Coverage: Tue 9PM & Wed 7AM (Israel time)
March 16, 2015 13:39 - 1 minute - 957 KBTues. 9-11PM (Israel); 3-5PM (EST); 12-2PM (PT) Join TLV1 anchors Ilene Prusher and Gilad Halpern for LIVE coverage of Israel's election madness as the exit polls come out and the votes begin to be counted. We'll have TLV1 & Haaretz correspondents at the major campaign headquarters and special reports on the issues facing Israeli voters. Weds. 7AM (Israel); 1AM (EST); 10PM (PT) Listen to our special LIVE election panel of Noah Efron, Debra Kamin, and Gil Troy putting together the pieces ...
More than moneylending: The economic history of the Jews
March 15, 2015 11:52 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBMore than moneylending: The economic history of the Jews Economist Zvi Eckstein of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya offers an original and compelling explanation of the demographic meanders of the Jewish people in the common era. Israeli conscientious objectors: Torn between values and struggle for survival Dr. Erica Weiss, Tel Aviv University anthropologist and author of Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty, tackles the concept of consci...
All her daughters: The story of Jerusalem's legendary headmistress
March 04, 2015 15:42 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBThe story of Jerusalem's legendary headmistress Prof. Laura Schor, a historian at Hunter College and author of The Best School in Jerusalem: Annie Landau's School for Girls, discusses the character of Annie Landau, a high-profile public figure in Jerusalem during one of its most tumultuous periods. The Old Testament in early American political thought Dr. Eran Shalev of the University of Haifa, author of American Zion: The Old Testament as Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil W...
Israel's Bedouin and the line between tradition and modernity
February 27, 2015 11:45 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBIsrael's Bedouin and the line between tradition and modernity Dr. Sarab Abu Rabia-Queder, a researcher at Ben-Gurion University, specializes in the impact of higher education on Bedouin women. Herself of Bedouin origin, she talks about the nomadic people of Israel who straddle the line between tradition and modernity. Who owns the media in Israel? Prof. Amit Schejter, head of the Department of Communication Studies at Ben-Gurion University, recently completed a study, soon to be published...
What did the Crusaders ever learn from us?
February 19, 2015 16:38 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBWhat did the Crusaders ever learn from us? Dr. Jonathan Rubin, a historian of the Medieval Levant at Tel Aviv University, talks about how the crusaders' encounters with local societies - beyond the initial indignation - led to theological, economic, and scientific developments. Ramle remade: The Israelization of an Arab town Dr. Danna Piroyansky, author of the recently published 'Ramle Remade: The Israelisation of an Arab Town 1948-1967,' talks about the very Israeli concept of 'mixed cit...
Middle-of-the-road Judaism: The emergence of Modern Orthodoxy
February 13, 2015 08:19 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBMiddle-of-the-road Judaism Dr. Ephraim Chamiel, a lecturer and scholar of Jewish thought in the modern era, talks about his book, The Middle Way: The Emergence of Modern Religious Trends in Nineteenth-Century Judaism. Which Jewish philosophers sought to harmonize modernity and tradition? Don't mention the 'A' word Dr. Sonja Narunsky-Laden, a research fellow in the Department of Communication at the University of Johannesburg, discusses to what extent the legacy of Apartheid is evoked in t...
Portrait of the father of a nation
February 06, 2015 14:04 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBPortrait of the father of a nation Prof. Anita Shapira, one of Israel's most eminent historians of Zionism, discusses her newly published biography of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding prime minister, with host Gilad Halpern. Hebrew literature and the origins of Israeli malaise Yigal Schwarz, professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, discusses his latest book, The Zionist Paradox: Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity, which analyzes Israel's unique conceptu...
Requiem for a bygone Jewish-Arab coexistence
January 30, 2015 07:27 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBRequiem 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 Memor...
Palestinian students and the struggle for nationhood
January 16, 2015 11:27 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBPalestinian students and the struggle for nationhood Dr. Ido Zelkovitz, a Middle East scholar at the University of Haifa, talks about his new book Students and Resistance in Palestine: Books, Guns and Politics, which explores the Palestinian student movement from a historical as well as sociological perspective. Ecologically underprivileged: Environmental justice in Israel Dr. Neta Lipman, deputy director of the Israeli Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, talks us about environ...
How the Bible became holy
January 08, 2015 13:00 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBIn 1948, Palestine saw Jewish refugees too Dr. Nurit Cohen Levinovsky, a historian and author of Jewish Refugees During the War of Independence, tells the story of the tens of thousands of Israeli Jews who became refugees during the War of Independence. How the Bible became holy Michael Satlow, a religious and Judaic studies professor at Brown University (US) and author of How the Bible Became Holy, sheds some light on the selection and canonization processes over the centuries that br...
You're in the army now: How Judaism fell back in love with the military
December 29, 2014 09:48 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBYou're in the army now: How Judaism fell back in love with the military Prof. Stuart Cohen, a political scientist specializing in diplomatic and military history, explains how World War One - of all historical events - radically changed the attitude of Jews towards warfare. Holocaust research: From academia to the public realm Prof. Deborah Dwork, a historian of the Holocaust and Director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in the United S...
Why the Diaspora is good for the Jews
December 12, 2014 08:17 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBWhy the Diaspora is good for the Jews Prof. Alan Wolfe, a political scientist at Boston College, explores why so few Jews in the West acknowledge their good fortune, and how their relationship to their home countries and to Israel evolves as the memory of the Holocaust wanes. Narratives of betrayal in Holocaust survivors' memoirs Prof. Dennis Klein, a historian at Kean University in New Jersey, discusses the main themes that feature in memoirs written by Holocaust survivors - chief among ...
Political science: Early Israeli-German scientific exchanges
December 04, 2014 12:31 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBPolitical science: Early Israeli-German scientific exchanges Prof. Ute Deichmann, a historian of science at Ben Gurion University, tells us to what extent exchanges between Israeli and German scientists in the early years of the state paved the way for the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Why secular people are more religious than they think Prof. Benjamin Beit Hallahmi of the department of psychology at Haifa University tries to establish why, 250 years...
Why the Internet didn't kill the TV star
November 28, 2014 09:20 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBWhy the Internet didn't kill the TV star Jerome Bourdon, a professor of communications at Tel Aviv University, tell us about the evolution of the peoplemeter from a simple instrument accumulating data for commercial purposes to a matter of public interest, and why it remains such an important tool today. Arizona and the Negev: An aquifer runs through them Prof. Sharon Megdal, director of the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Arizona, US, discusses how limited water reso...
Why we stayed: Confessions of postwar Polish Jews
November 20, 2014 20:57 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBWhy we stayed: Confessions of postwar Polish Jews Prof. Marian Turski, Chairman of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, talks about Jewish life in Poland after the end of WWII, and explains why he and a handful other Polish Jews chose to stay in their native country despite persistent attempts to uproot them. The social psychology of the conflict Ruthie Pliskin, a social psychologist at Tel Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, talks about the role of emotions...
Bottomless pit: The Cairo Geniza and the untold history of Medieval Jewry
November 13, 2014 14:32 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBBottomless pit: The Cairo Geniza and the untold history of Medieval Jewry Dr. Moshe Lavee, a Talmud scholar at the University of Haifa, tells us about the Cairo Genizah – this trove of hundreds of thousands of Jewish texts, religious as well as non-religious, that was found inside a synagogue in the Egyptian capital and documents ten centuries of Jewish life there, most of which has been marginalized by the course of history. Imperial Capital: The capture of Jerusalem in WWI Dr. Justin Fa...
Sir Moses Montefiore: a world Jewish leader before such even existed
November 06, 2014 10:51 - 1 hour - 60 MBOn our program today, our guests are: Lia Tarachansky, director of the film On the Side of the Road that tackles the way the Nakba – the heritage of the Palestinian defeat in 1948 – is perceived in Israeli society today. Prof. Motti Regev, a cultural sociologist and head of the Department of Literature, Language and the Arts at the Open University, talks to us about his new book Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity and about the historical event of Pop-Rock music, in...
Why do Jews play a "ridiculously disproportionate" role in the sciences?
October 30, 2014 14:06 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBWhy do Jews play a "ridiculously disproportionate" role in the sciences? Dr. Noah Efron, the founding chair of the Program in Science, Technology, Society at Bar-Ilan University, and a fellow TLV1 broadcaster, recently published in English by Hebrew Union College Press and John Hopkins University Press. He will give his original take on a generations long question: Why are Jews so smart? Bombay: Exploring the Jewish Urban Heritage Dr. Shaul Sapir is a geography professor at th...
How Israel successfully abolished the trafficking of women
October 23, 2014 12:47 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBHow Israel successfully abolished the trafficking of women Dr. Nurit Hashimshony-Yaffe, a political scientist at the Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College, tells us about her most recent study, which focuses on how Israel managed to clamp down on a prosperous women trafficking industry. A Muslim and Democratic state: Lessons from Indonesia Dr. Giora Eliraz, a Middle East scholar from Hebrew University and the IDC in Herzliya, specializes in Islam in southeast Asia – namely, Indonesia and Malays...
Rise and decline of civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People
October 17, 2014 08:09 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBRise and decline of civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People Dr. Salomon Wald, senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem and author of Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People, tells us what the Jewish civilization, though unique in human history, has to learn from other people's mistakes. The evolving national identity of Israeli Arabs Dr. Itamar Radai, director of the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation at the Moshe D...
Under women's wings: The architecture of the 'ezrat nashim'
October 08, 2014 15:01 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBUnder women's wings: The architecture of the ezrat nashim Adva Naama Baram, an architect and photographer specializing in architectural photography, talks about her new exhibition, currently showing at the Architects' House Gallery in Jaffa, dedicated to ezrat nashim – the women's section in synagogues across the country. How Shlomo Sand stopped being a Jew Prof. Shlomo Sand, who just retired from a teaching position at the Department of History at Tel Aviv University, is probably b...
Water laws in British-ruled Palestine: A case study
October 02, 2014 16:18 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBWater laws in British-ruled Palestine: A case study Dr. David Schorr, a historian of environmental law at Tel Aviv University's School of Law, tells us about the evolution of water laws in Palestine during the mandate years, and how the treatment of this scarce resource helped shape this country's political and legal reality in years to come. Darwinism vs. Creationism: Not just for Christians Dr. Rachel Pear, teaching assistant at the School of Education at Bar-Ilan University and a postd...
Tortured by the State: Race and gender in contemporary Israel
September 24, 2014 15:48 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBTortured by the State: Race and gender in contemporary Israel Prof. Smadar Lavie, visiting professor at UCC's Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century and author of Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture, tells us about the modalities of race and gender in contemporary Israel. The everyday experience: Keeping monotony at bay Dr. Eran Dorfman, senior lecturer in French and Literature at Tel Aviv University and author of Foundations of the E...