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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 11 days 5 hours 56 minutes
The Broke Woke
Batya Ungar-Sargon believes woke culture has created a smokescreen of racial identity politics that obfuscates the real force tearing American society apart: class inequality. But it took the liberal media to exponentially amplify the problem. Her new...
Israel’s Ellis Island, Behind Barbed Wire
Quarantine wasn’t invented for corona. At the start of statehood, Israel encouraged mass immigration while seeking to prevent mass disease by putting immigrants through a quarantine camp called Shaar Ha’aliya. Rhona Seidelman, a historian of...
Labor’s Love’s Lost
Dr Laura Wharton analyzes the ideological and institutional decline of the Labor Party up until the 1970s
Religiously Democratic?
Prof. Daniel Statman discusses his new co-authored book “State and Religion is Israel,” a joint legal and philosophical attempt to conceptualize the role of religion in democratic regimes
But Somebody Has to Do It
In “Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America,” Eyal Press takes a tough look at the people squeezed in the middle of America's moral pyramid
Kahane Lives On
Although he came to prominence in Israel, as the undisputed emblem of the far-right, Rabbi Meir Kahane was a quintessential American Jew, claims Prof. Shaul Magid in a new book
Creating Killers (Rerun)
One of the most controversial questions about the Holocaust is whether it should be seen as a universal human problem, or a unique horror perpetrated by Germans on Jews. At the heart of this question lies the work of Christopher Browning, author of...
The Past Is Never Dead – But Maybe It Should Be
After reporting on the cruelest wars of the late 20th century, journalist and cultural critic David Rieff concluded that remembering history was no defense against repeating it, and could even be a culprit. His book, , explains why.
A City in Text
Dr Yair Wallach, Senior Lecturer in Israel Studies at SOAS, University of London, discusses his new book , which focuses on the changing nature and meaning of text – from stone inscriptions to street names to business cards – in Jerusalem of...
The Many Faces of Edward Said
Timothy Brennan, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, has published a new biography of Edward Said, the feted Palestinian-American scholar and public intellectual, and his former PhD advisor at Columbia...