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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 14 days 9 hours 21 minutes
In Philip Roth's shadow: Sayed Kashua's 'authorial network'
Dr. David Hadar, a literary scholar and post-doctoral fellow at the Open University, analyzes with host Gilad Halpern the influence, overt and covert, of the Jewish-American novelist on the much younger Israeli-Arab author, drawing parallels between...
Between Tel Aviv and Moscow: A story of Zionism, Communism and disillusionment
Dr. Nir Arielli, a lecturer in international history and politics at the University of Leeds, UK, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the tumultuous life of his great aunt, Leah Trachtman-Palchan, a Communist activist who was deported from British-ruled...
Postwar justice, Soviet style
Dr. Dina Moyal, a historian specializing in the legal history of the Soviet Union, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the trials of Nazi criminals and collaborators in the Soviet Union during and in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, and...
The decline and fall of the kibbutz: An appreciation
Host Gilad Halpern and Professor Yaarah Bar-On; the President of Oranim Teachers College and a historian of the kibbutz movement, analyse the crisis that has all but decimated the once illustrious centrepiece of Israel and Zionism and offers...
We have come to make the desert fiscally stable
Dr Daniel Schiffman, an economic historian and a senior lecturer in the department of Economics and Business Administration at Ariel University, is the co-author of the forthcoming book Economic Advisers and Advice: Crises, Reform and Stabilization in...
Ze'ev Jabotinbsky: A maverick Zionist for his life
Host Gilad Halpern talks to Brian Horowitz, professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans, and the co-editor of the recently published Story of My Life, the first of three autobiographies written by Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky, the...
Damned to be blessed: Jewish exile as a metaphor
Host Gilad Halpern and Vivian Liska, professor of German literature and the director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, discuss one of the themes featuring in her forthcoming book, German Jewish Thought and its...
The two-state delusion: A coroner's report of a defunct solution
Padraig O'Malley, professor of peace and reconciliation at the University of Massachusetts and author of the recently published The Two State Delusion: Israel Palestine - A Tale of Two Narratives, discusses with host Gilad Halpern, why what for...
Sovereignty in exile: the curious case of Kiryas Yoel
Explore the Hassidic settlement of Kiryas Yoel, in upstate New York, which offers a unique insight into questions of diaspora and sovereignty.
The new left: Zionist youth movements in 1960s America
Dr. Tal Elmaliach, a historian of Zionism at the University of Wisconsin, discusses with host Gilad Halpern how Zionist youth movements played an increasingly significant role in redefining American Judaism in the 1960s. Song: Rami Kleinstein -...