Tel Aviv Review

Jews and words: A millennia-long love story

This week's show is a special one, because we only have one guest. But it's a very special guest: Dr Fania Oz-Salzberger, a historian at Haifa University and a leading public intellectual in Israel. She talks about the book Jews and Words, which she co-authored with her father Amos Oz, the famous Israeli novelist. It explores the importance of words to Jews over the generations.   Music: F.R David - Words Don't Come Easy Ha Hatzer Ha'achorit - Lishrok Bahoshech Robert Plant - Rainbow

A eulogy to a different kind of Zionism

A eulogy to a different kind of Zionism Prof. Ofer Shiff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, author of the recently published The Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel, talks about the American-Jewish leader who lost the argument for diaspora-based kind of Zionism. Airing grievances: A comparison of social protest movements Naama Nagar, a sociologist from the University of Wisconsin Madison, was closely involved in two almost simultaneous social protest movements ...

A time of harmonious coexistence: The Jews and Muslims of Tinghir

The price of collaboration Prof. Menachem Hofnung, a political scientist from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, unveils a ground-breaking study that he has just concluded about Israel's treatment of Arab informants over the years. A time of harmonious coexistence We speak to the makers of the documentary film Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah, which explores the cordial relations between Jews and Berbers in Morocco that were severed when politics got in the way. Music: Queen -...

Rooted cosmopolitans: Israelis flocking to EU while staying put (Rerun, Originally aired 27-12-13)