Tel Aviv Review

Showcasing 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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Britain's moment in Palestine: Dreams, politics & damage control


Prof. Michael J Cohen, a Professor Emeritus of History at Bar-Ilan University, is the author of the recently published Britain's Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspective. Talking to host Gilad Halpern, he takes a comprehensive look at the...


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 March 7, 2016  23m
 
 

A specter haunting Europe: Between Jewish past and Muslim present


Prof. Amikam Nachmani, a political scientist at Bar-Ilan University, is studying Europe's encounter with its Muslim immigrants in the 21st century. He tells host Gilad Hapern how this is not a bilateral relationship, but rather a "love triangle," with...


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 March 4, 2016  20m
 
 

People of the visitor book: Commemorative practices in Jerusalem's war museum


Prof. Chaim Noy is a professor of communications at the University of South Florida and the author of a new book Thank You For Dying for Our Country: Commemorative Texts and Performances in Jerusalem. He talks to host Gilad Halpern about his...


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 February 29, 2016  22m
 
 

The Israeli melting pot: A grassroots perspective


Dr. Anat Helman, a professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of the new book Becoming Israeli: National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s. She explores with host Gilad Halpern the everyday practices adopted...


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 February 26, 2016  18m
 
 

A program like no other: What Birthright Israel does right


Prof. Leonard Saxe, a sociologist and professor of contemporary Jewish Studies at Brandeis University, is a world-renowned expert on Birthright Israel, the program that has brought hundreds of thousands of young Diaspora Jews to Israel. He analyzes...


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 February 22, 2016  16m
 
 

Many types of belonging: New historiography of Mideastern Jews


Prof. Orit Bashkin, a Middle East scholar at the University of Chicago, talks to host Gilad Halpern about her original perspective on the history of Jews in the Levant and Egypt, which transcends the common perception of the communities as...


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 February 19, 2016  22m
 
 

Just a very naughty boy: Sabbatai Zevi and C17th Jewish messianism


Dor Saar, a historian of Judaism at Tel Aviv University, discusses the curious case of a 17th-century Jewish theologian and mysticist called Abraham Miguel Cardoso, one of the principal backers of Sabbatai Zevi, the most well-known false messiah in...


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 February 15, 2016  21m
 
 

Weimar in Jerusalem: Is Israel on a slippery slope to fascism?


Prof. Moshe Zimmermann, a historian of modern Germany at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, attempts to draw lessons from the fragile and divided German democracy of the early 1930s for today's Israel, in the wake of a panel discussion entitled "The...


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 February 12, 2016  17m
 
 

Cyriac of Ancona, Europe's first archaeologist


Dr. Adar Yarum, an art historian at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the life and journals of Cyriac (Ciriaco) of Ancona, a 15th century traveler credited with bringing the long-lost marvels of the Classical world...


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 February 8, 2016  16m
 
 

No laughing matter: What studying humor can teach us about life


Prof. Arie Sover, the founding chair of the Israeli Society for the Study of Humor, dissects with host Gilad Halpern the ins and outs of his field, in an Israeli and a global context, ahead of the society's annual conference. Song: Matisyahu -...


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 February 5, 2016  16m