Tel Aviv Review

Zachary Smith, a doctoral fellow in political science at the University of Pennsylvania, analyzes with host Gilad Halpern the critique leveled at the two pillars of classic Zionism - rootedness and a Western orientation - by contemporary Mizrahi radicals in Israel. Song: Teapacks - Ma Iti This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute , which promotes human...

Prof. William Miles, a political scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the challenges 21st-century Israel poses to the Druze - a largely integrationist indigenous group - against the backdrop of the tensions between Jews and Arabs, the turmoil in the Middle East, and life in a modern economy. Song: Yoni Rechter - Be'etsem At Po Leyadi This season of the...

Adina Hoffman, an Israeli-American writer, critic and essayist, discusses with host Gilad Halpern her new book Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City , which tells the story of three architects - a Jew, an Englishman and an Arab - who were instrumental in designing the skyline of modern Jerusalem in the first half of the 20th century. Song: Meni Beger - Ze Haya Beiti This season of...

Dr. Azriel Bermant, a historian and international relations professor at Tel Aviv University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his book Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East , exploring the relationship of Great Britain's legendary prime minister with Israel and the Arab World. Song: Tuna - Gam Ze Ya'avor This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute , wh...

Prof. Rebeca Raijman, a sociologist at the University of Haifa, discusses with host Gilad Halpern her book South African Jews in Israel: Assimilation in Multigenerational Perspective , highlighting the distinctive characteristics of one of the English speaking world's largest Jewish communities, before and after their mass aliya. Song: Chava Albershtein - Karega Ze Nir'e Lo Tov This season of the...

Dr. Leah Gilula, a theater studies scholar, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the limits of satirical plays during the British Mandate period, and their contribution to the creation of a homegrown Israeli culture. Song: Funset - Wake up This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute , which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social d...

Dr. Guy Ziv, an assistant professor of international relations at the American University in Washington, DC, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the evolution of peacemaking policies among Israel's political and military circles, which are sometimes at odds with each other. Song: Danny Sanderson - Galshan This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute , which...

Geoffrey Levin, a doctoral student in the Departments of History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern how Jewish Americans viewed Israel's treatment of its largest ethnic minority in the 1950s and 60s, when they were subjected to military rule. Song: The Paz Band - Without A Sight This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer...

Kathryn David, a fellow at New York University's Jordan Center for Advanced Study of Russia, discusses with host Gilad Halpern how Jews and anti-Semitism have been utilized in the media war between Russia and Ukraine, against the backdrop of the Crimean crisis. Song: Kutiman - I Think I Am ft. Karolina This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute , which...

Prof. David Tal, a historian of the Arab-Israeli conflict at the University of Sussex, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the commonly-held belief that Israel could have avoided the devastating Yom Kippur War by accommodating to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's peace overtures. Is this no more than a myth created with the benefit of hindsight? Song: Arik Einstein - Kshe At Bocha At Lo Yafa This sea...

Dr. Rachel Harris, an associate professor of Israeli literature and culture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, sits down with host Gilad Halpern to put the spotlight on a relatively obscure Israeli film genre - the Western. Song: Asaf Avidan - Love It Or Leave It This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute , which promotes humanistic, dem...

Dr. Tony Michels, a historian of American Jewry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the changing attitudes of (predominantly Jewish) American Marxists towards Zionism during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath. Song: Shlomi Shaban - Ikea This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute , which promotes humani...

Dr. Shira Klein, a historian at Chapman University in California, discusses with host Gilad Halpern new approaches to teaching the complexities of Israel to American undergraduate students. Song: Sivan Talmor - I'll Be This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute , which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel...

Dr. Ariela Keysar, a demographer at Trinity College, Connecticut, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the oft-ignored role of grandparents in shaping college students' political worldview. Song: Roy Dahan - Time To Leave This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute , which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel...

Dr. Tamir Libel, a research fellow at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI), explains to host Gilad Halpern what "strategic culture" is and how it affects policy-making in the field of national security, in Israel and beyond. Song: David D'Or And Ehud Banai - Zman Ahava This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute , which promotes humani...

Dr. Uta Larkey, professor of German and the Director of the Center for the Study of Modern Languages at Goucher College in the United States, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the migration patterns of Jewish displaced persons from Germany in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Song: Guy Mezig - Mitorer Meuchar This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusa...

Prof. Csaba Nikolenyi, a political scientist at Concordia University in Canada and the director of the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies there, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the effects of the phenomenon of party swapping on political stability in Israel over the years. Song: Eitan Masuri - Elohim Natan Lecha Bematana This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusa...

Sam Fleischacker, a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his latest book The Good and the Good Book , which seeks to establish how valid sacred texts are for the modern, rational man. Song: Rona Kenan - Ani Va'atsmi This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute , which promotes humanistic, demo...

Prof. Dov Waxman, a political science, international affairs and Israel Studies scholar at Northeastern University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his new book Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel , which explores the evolution of the Israel debate among Jewish Americans over the years. Song: J Views - Into The Light This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible...

Aram Abu Saleh, a student at Jerusalem's Israel Arts and Science Academy, is the recipient of the Van Leer award for outstanding essays written by high school students. He talks to host Gilad Halpern about Abul 'Alaa al Ma'ari, a maverick 11th century Islamic theologian and poet, whose unconventional views remain hated and admired in equal measure. Song: Gili Yalo - City Life This season of the Te...

Prof. Russell Berman, a literary scholar at Stanford University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the pedagogic rationale behind his undergraduate seminar "Zionism and the Novel," and how a critical study of literature can enrich the debate about Israel and Zionism. Song: OSOG - Who Who This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute , which promotes humani...

Prof. Motti Inbari, a religions scholar at the University of North Carolina Pembroke, is the author of the new book Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women's Equality . Prof. Inbari discusses with host Gilad Halpern the genealogy of the two most radical examples of Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy: Jerusalem's Neturei Karta and Brooklyn's Satmar Hasidim. Song: Sharon Lifshitz -...

Prof. Chandra Mukerji, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Communication and Science Studies at the University of California San Diego, is the author of the forthcoming book Reimagining Modernity.  She discusses with host Gilad Halpern her thesis that traces the origins of modernity to the Black Death, which instigated a complete overhaul in the way society functioned and perceived itself. Song:...

Host Gilad Halpern speaks to Prof. Gili Drori, head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and co-chair of the international conference "Internationalization, Globalization and Governance of Academia," which was recently held at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute . They discuss how universities have adapted to market forces and global capitalism with a...

Prof. Haim Yacobi, a political geographer at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, is the author of the recently published Israel and Africa: A Genealogy of Moral Geography (the Hebrew version was published by the Van Leer Institute). Prof. Yacobi explains to host Gilad Halpern how Israel's political and conceptual relationship with the African continent over the years contributed to the shaping of...