Tel Aviv Review

The birth of a Zionist myth Dr. Ofer Nurdheimer Nur of Tel Aviv University talks about the inception of a prominent Zionist myth – the establishment in the early 1920s of the settlement of Upper Bitania by a highly ideological group of immigrants from central Europe. Hillel House: Key player in identity politics Ella Ben Hagay, a social psychologist at University of California in Santa Cruz, talks...

Terrorism in Cyberspace: The next generation Prof. Gabriel Weimann of the department of Communication studies at the University of Haifa has been studying terrorist communication on the Internet for almost two decades. He takes host Gilad Halpern through its evolution. How Jews in the Jim Crow South labored to be white Dr. Caroline Light of Harvard University talks about her recent work with host...

Zion and the Diaspora in 20th century Jewish thought Prof. Yossi Turner, who teaches modern Jewish philosophy at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, explores the evolution of Zionism, and the integration and growing political power of Jewish communities around the world. The Jew who defeated Hitler Peter Moreira discusses his book,  The Jew who Defeated Hitler: Henry Morgenthau...

Protecting Jews in interwar Europe Prof. Carole Fink, a historian at Ohio State University in the US, tells us about how Europe's Jews fit into the numerous minority protection schemes that emerged on the continent in the interwar period, and about the road to their catastrophic breakdown. The individual and the social in psychoanalysis Prof. Uri Hadar of the School of Psychological Sciences at Te...

The birth of the cosmopolitan Jew Prof. Sander Gilman, who teaches history at Emory University in the US, is an extremely prolific academic with a vast spectrum of fields of expertise. He discusses his latest study, cleverly entitled "Aliens vs Predators: Cosmopolitan Jews vs Jewish Nomads." The unwitting standard-bearers of Judaism Prof. Renee Levine Melammed, a senior faculty member at the Schec...

Tues. 9-11PM (Israel); 3-5PM (EST); 12-2PM (PT) Join TLV1 anchors Ilene Prusher and Gilad Halpern for LIVE coverage of Israel's election madness as the exit polls come out and the votes begin to be counted. We'll have TLV1 & Haaretz correspondents at the major campaign headquarters and special reports on the issues facing Israeli voters. Weds. 7AM (Israel); 1AM (EST); 10PM (PT) Listen to our speci...

More than moneylending: The economic history of the Jews Economist Zvi Eckstein of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya offers an original and compelling explanation of the demographic meanders of the Jewish people in the common era.   Israeli conscientious objectors: Torn between values and struggle for survival Dr. Erica Weiss, Tel Aviv University anthropologist  and author of Conscientious...

The story of Jerusalem's legendary headmistress Prof. Laura Schor, a historian at Hunter College and author of  The Best School in Jerusalem: Annie Landau's School for Girls , discusses the character of Annie Landau, a high-profile public figure in Jerusalem during one of its most tumultuous periods. The Old Testament in early American political thought Dr. Eran Shalev of the University of Haifa, ...

Israel's Bedouin and the line between tradition and modernity Dr. Sarab Abu Rabia-Queder, a researcher at Ben-Gurion University, specializes in the impact of higher education on Bedouin women. Herself of Bedouin origin, she talks about the nomadic people of Israel who straddle the line between tradition and modernity. Who owns the media in Israel? Prof. Amit Schejter, head of the Department of Com...

What did the Crusaders ever learn from us? Dr. Jonathan Rubin, a historian of the Medieval Levant at Tel Aviv University, talks about how the crusaders' encounters with local societies - beyond the initial indignation - led to theological, economic, and scientific developments. Ramle remade: The Israelization of an Arab town Dr. Danna Piroyansky, author of the recently published 'Ramle Remade: The...

Middle-of-the-road Judaism Dr. Ephraim Chamiel, a lecturer and scholar of Jewish thought in the modern era, talks about his book,  The Middle Way: The Emergence of Modern Religious Trends in Nineteenth-Century Judaism . Which Jewish philosophers sought to harmonize modernity and tradition? Don't mention the 'A' word Dr. Sonja Narunsky-Laden, a research fellow in the Department of Communication at...

Portrait of the father of a nation Prof. Anita Shapira, one of Israel's most eminent historians of Zionism, discusses her newly published biography of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding prime minister, with host Gilad Halpern. Hebrew literature and the origins of Israeli malaise Yigal Schwarz, professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, discusses his latest book,  The Zi...

Requiem for a bygone Jewish-Arab coexistence Prof. Menachem Klein, a Middle East history professor at Bar-Ilan University, discusses his recent book  Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron . Jewish-Arab common identity in Palestine was later subsumed by mutually opposing national identities.   The Holocaust: The litmus test of the Israeli media Dr. Oren Meyers of the Depart...

Palestinian students and the struggle for nationhood Dr. Ido Zelkovitz, a Middle East scholar at the University of Haifa, talks about his new book  Students and Resistance in Palestine: Books, Guns and Politics , which explores the Palestinian student movement from a historical as well as sociological perspective. Ecologically underprivileged: Environmental justice in Israel Dr. Neta Lipman, deput...

In 1948, Palestine saw Jewish refugees too Dr. Nurit Cohen Levinovsky, a historian and author of  Jewish Refugees During the War of Independence , tells the story of the tens of thousands of Israeli Jews who became refugees during the War of Independence.   How the Bible became holy Michael Satlow, a religious and Judaic studies professor at Brown University (US) and author of  How the Bible Becam...

You're in the army now: How Judaism fell back in love with the military Prof. Stuart Cohen, a political scientist specializing in diplomatic and military history, explains how World War One - of all historical events - radically changed the attitude of Jews towards warfare. Holocaust research: From academia to the public realm Prof. Deborah Dwork, a historian of the Holocaust and Director of the S...

Why the Diaspora is good for the Jews Prof. Alan Wolfe, a political scientist at Boston College, explores why so few Jews in the West acknowledge their good fortune, and how their relationship to their home countries and to Israel evolves as the memory of the Holocaust wanes. Narratives of betrayal in Holocaust survivors' memoirs Prof. Dennis Klein, a historian at Kean University in New Jersey, di...

Political science: Early Israeli-German scientific exchanges Prof. Ute Deichmann, a historian of science at Ben Gurion University, tells us to what extent exchanges between Israeli and German scientists in the early years of the state paved the way for the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries.   Why secular people are more religious than they think Prof. Benjamin Beit Ha...

Why the Internet didn't kill the TV star Jerome Bourdon, a professor of communications at Tel Aviv University, tell us about the evolution of the peoplemeter from a simple instrument accumulating data for commercial purposes to a matter of public interest, and why it remains such an important tool today. Arizona and the Negev: An aquifer runs through them Prof. Sharon Megdal, director of the Water...

Why we stayed: Confessions of postwar Polish Jews Prof. Marian Turski, Chairman of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, talks about Jewish life in Poland after the end of WWII, and explains why he and a handful other Polish Jews chose to stay in their native country despite persistent attempts to uproot them. The social psychology of the conflict Ruthie Pliskin, a social psychologist at Tel A...

Bottomless pit: The Cairo Geniza and the untold history of Medieval Jewry Dr. Moshe Lavee, a Talmud scholar at the University of Haifa, tells us about the Cairo Genizah – this trove of hundreds of thousands of Jewish texts, religious as well as non-religious, that was found inside a synagogue in the Egyptian capital and documents ten centuries of Jewish life there, most of which has been marginali...

On our program today, our guests are: Lia Tarachansky, director of the film  On the Side of the Road  that tackles the way the Nakba – the heritage of the Palestinian defeat in 1948 – is perceived in Israeli society today. Prof. Motti Regev, a cultural sociologist and head of the Department of Literature, Language and the Arts at the Open University, talks to us about his new book  Pop-Rock Music:...

  Why do Jews play a "ridiculously disproportionate" role in the sciences? Dr. Noah Efron, the founding chair of the Program in Science, Technology, Society at Bar-Ilan University, and a fellow TLV1 broadcaster, recently published in English by Hebrew Union College Press and John Hopkins University Press. He will give his original take on a generations long question: Why are Jews so smart?     Bom...

How Israel successfully abolished the trafficking of women Dr. Nurit Hashimshony-Yaffe, a political scientist at the Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College, tells us about her most recent study, which focuses on how Israel managed to clamp down on a prosperous women trafficking industry. A Muslim and Democratic state: Lessons from Indonesia Dr. Giora Eliraz, a Middle East scholar from Hebrew University a...

Rise and decline of civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People Dr. Salomon Wald, senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem and author of  Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People,  tells us what the Jewish civilization, though unique in human history, has to learn from other people's mistakes.   The evolving national identity of Israeli Arabs Dr. It...