The Tel Aviv Review is a semiweekly podcast that showcases the cutting-edge of Israeli innovation in the field of ideas beyond science and technology.

October 2017

October 20: The Cold War's Six Hot Days

October 16: Boots on the Ground: Journeys in a War-Torn Middle East

October 13: Storming Down Memory Lane: Memory Activism in Israel and Palestine

October 9: Legal Aliens: Middle-Class Arab Migration to Israeli Metropolitan Areas

October 6: Persons of Dollar: How GDP Became King

October 2: Fences and Neighbors: A Story of Friendship Across the Divide

September 2017

September 29: The Wild West (Bank): The Allegory That Keeps on Giving

September 25: Worth a Thousand Words: Hitler and Nazism in US Editorial Cartoons

September 22: “I’m a Jewish Man in Love with a Hitler Youth”

September 18: Are You There, Allah? It’s Me, Haroon

September 15: Fast Forverts: Media and Culture in the US Jewish Labor Movement

September 11: Hebrew: The Revival of a Not-So-Dead Language

September 8: TLV1 Extra: Unconventional Views on Current Events

September 4: Between a Rock and Hard Place: Jews of Buczacz Amid Rising Nationalism

September 1: Putting South Africa Together Again (And Surviving a Bomb)

August 2017

August 28: Upper West Bank: The Story of American-Born Settlers

August 25: Badges and Gadgets: Israel’s High-Tech Army

August 21: Enemies, a Love Story: North African Jews and Muslims in France

August 18: War Before Wars: Nationalism and Violence in the Balkans, 1912-1913

August 14: No Return: Non-Jewish Migrants in the Jewish State

August 11: The Burden of Responsibility: Hamas Rule in Gaza

August 7: Women’s Rights and Human Rights: Hand in Glove?

August 4: Rebel Rousers: Why National Movements Fight

July 2017

July 31: In God We Trust? The Sociology of Religion Revisited

July 28: Stripped: Citizenship in America and the Revocation Thereof

July 24: Peddlers on the Road: Patterns of Jewish Migration to the New World

July 21: The Great Jewish-American Intellectual You Don’t Know

July 17: When in Romania, Do as the Romanian Jews

July 14: The Menorah: A Most Emblematic Emblem

July 10: The Lobbyist: Herbert Hoover and the Jews

July 7: Return to Former Glory: Sephardic Religious Culture in Israel

July 3: Down and Out in Be’er Sheba and Afula

June 2017

June 30: The Tel Aviv Review LIVE in New York: Timothy Snyder on Tyranny

June 26: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, v.2015

June 23: Is a Peaceful Peace Process Born to Fail?

June 19: Romeo and Juliet get Banned

June 12: The Middle East: Guide to the Perplexed

June 9: Unchain My Heart: Shulem Deen's Breakaway From Radical Hasidism

June 5: No Occupation Without Annexation: Israel and the West Bank, 50 Years On

June 2: Because It's There: Shifting Discourses in the 'Temple Mount Faithful' Movement

May 2017

May 29: American Exceptionalism: Why the Nazis Looked up to US Race Laws

May 26: The New Sepharad: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Salonica

May 22: Israel, Slipping Through my Fingers

May 19: Attempting to Solve the Scholem Enigma

May 15: First, Do No Harm: Rashid Khalidi on US Peace-Blocking

May 12: Portnoy and I: Philip Roth's Great American Moment

May 8: The Matriarchs: Russian, Palestinian and Jewish Mothers in Israel

May 5: Found in Translation: The Definitive SY Agnon, in English

May 1: Ruth, a Leader of Biblical Magnitude

April 2017

April 28: Shake It up Baby Now: On the Intersection Between Dance and Politics

April 24: The Plight of 'Post-Ethnic' Young Israelis

April 21: Zionism, Apartheid, Blackface: Africa in Israeli Culture

April 17: We Were the Future Once: The Youth of 1948

April 13: Is Israel Really Unfairly Singled Out in the Western Media?

April 9: Occupier's Liability: International Law of Occupation Revisited

April 5: The Name is Azoulay, Yael Azoulay

April 3: Portrait of the Intellectual as a Young German Woman

March 2017:

March 31: Japan During WW2: A Classic Case of Anti-Semitism Without Jews

March 26: Who's World Heritage? De-politicizing Archaeology in Jerusalem

March 23: From Revolution to Constitution: Law and politics in Egypt since 2011

March 20: Activism and Its Discontents: A 35-Year Journey Along the Seam

March 15: Weather permitting: Dealing with climate change in a divided Middle East

March 13: Death of a statesman: Yitzhak Rabin and the end of an Israeli era

March 9: Zionism as a Vocation: Ahad Ha'am and the Legacy of Cultural Zionism

March 6: Jaffa, the crux of co-existence?

March 3: Adieu, Jews: France and North Africa under the Nazi occupation

February 2017:

February 27: Kafka in the West Bank: The bureaucracy of the occupation

February 24: Armenia's 30-year genocide

February 20: Going south: Movement and social upheaval in the Confederate States

February 17: Russian renaissance: Jewish renewal in post-Soviet Russia

February 13: Rule or exception? The political and legal implications of emergencies

February 10: Bridges over troubled water: Literary translations as basis of binationalism

February 6: What did Jewish rituals look like 2000 years ago?

February 2: Proto-Mizrahim: Oriental Jews and Arabs in pre-state Israel

January 2017:

January 30: Russell's teapot and kiddush cup: Between Jewish and Western philosophies

January 26: Tel Aviv Review Extra: US Jews and Israel in the age of Trump

January 23: In the footsteps of the 'Jewish Dickens'

January 18: Once more with neshama: The art of Jewish theater

January 16: Missionary positions: What the Talmud says about sex

January 13: A different kind of Tzedakah: Organ donation in Jewish law

January 9: The 11th lost tribe: Tales of Jewish Sudan

January 6: Hasidism 2.0: Breslav and the secret of its newfound appeal

January 2: The glass mechitza: Fighting for women's rights, from the courthouse to shul

December 2016:

December 30: The last fight let us face: Israeli communist commemoration of Spain's civil war

December 26: Indecision makers: How Israel forces asylum seekers into legal limbo

December 23: Lies, damned lies and scholarship

December 19: Israel's grand economic reform that never was

December 16: Retracing Zionism's liberal roots

December 12: Back when Harlem was Jewish

December 9: Two Jewish communities separated by a common affinity for Israel

December 4: The faith equation: Are secularism and scientific progress inextricably intertwined?

December 2: Sunshine State: The case for renewable energy in Israel

November 2016:

November 28: Esperanto: Undoing the curse of Babel

November 23: What have the Romans ever done for us?

November 20: Women on a mission: Tackling gender inequality in Israel

November 17: Kids from hell: Early Holocaust testimonies of Child Survivors

November 13: Occupational hazards: Moral numbing among Israeli soldiers in the West Bank

November 11: Pax Britannica? The troubled legacy of Sykes-Picot

November 6: Make yourselves at home: The integration of immigrants in the new Israeli state

November 3: Sorely missed? Martin Buber's sociology under scrutiny

October 2016:

October 30: Carlo Ginzburg on the past, present and future of history

October 24: Is conflict management sustainable? Lessons for Israel-Palestine from Cyprus

October 21: Global democracy: The future of international relations?

October 17: Violence and politics: The underpinnings of conflict

October 14: The startup lab: Israel's culture of science

October 10: Creeping Israeliness: Law and citizenship in the settlement of Ariel

October 7: The Baha'i: Yet another world religion based in the Holy Land

October 3: Academic boycotts of Israel - why all the fuss?

September 2016:

September 30: When Israel's "demographic time bomb" started ticking

September 26: Members of a Tribe: The evolution of Israel's Jewish-Ethiopian immigration policy

September 23: Edifying Zionism: Richard Kaufman, a pioneering architect

September 19: ISIS: The old new face of radical Islam

September 16: The cost of energetic independence: Israel's natural gas challenges

Septermber 12: Welcome to Slovakia's 'Jewish Pompeii'

September 9: Left out: The rise of the Israeli right

September 5: No place like home: Israel's pioneering community research

September 2: The gatekeepers: Israel's supreme court in a changing reality

August 2016:

August 29: Shalom/Salam: On the benefits and limitations of bilingual education

August 26: Yad Vashem with an air force: "Hegemonic victimhood" in Israel

August 22: Verses of coexistence: Teaching poetry in a region of conflict

August 19: East is East: Cosmopolitanism and Levantinism in Mizrahi thought

August 16: Druze and don'ts: The integration of an indigenous community in modern Israel

August 12: Empire state builders: Architects of modern Jerusalem

August 8: The Iron Lady of the Orient

August 5: Jo'burg on the Mediterranean: South African migration to Israel

August 1: The burden of spoof: Satire in pre-state Israel

July 2016:

July 29: Continuation of policy by other means: Israel and the two-state solution

July 18: Yom Kippur War: Anatomy of a (not so) missed opportunity

July 15: A fistful of shekels: Ideology and symbolism in Israeli Westerns

July 11: Post-anti-Zionism: US Trotskyites and the Jewish state

July 8: Multimedia Israel: New methods of teaching Zionism

July 4: Grey-haired mentors: How grandparents reinvigorated politics

July 1: Strategic culture: The thing national security is made of

June 2016:

June 27: Desired destination: Palestine

June 24: Hold your noses: Floor crossing, coalition shopping & politicking in Israel

June 20: Strange bedfellows: Religious belief in the age of reason

June 17: The opening of the Jewish-American mind

June 13: The 11th century Islamic modernist who preceded modernity

June 10: Literature as a gateway to Zionism

June 6: New Shtetls: Radical ultra-Orthodoxy in the 20th century

June 3: Reimagining modernity: Crisis as the genesis of progress

May 2016:

May 30: Out of the ivory tower. Academia thrust into the 21st century

May 27: Israel, African Queen

May 23: Troubled communities: Which nations are prone to existential anger?

May 19: Dig this: Community archaeology in Israel

May 16: The Shamrock and the Star of David: Irish and Jewish Nationalisms

May 13: Karaites: The first Jewish fundamentalists

May 9: Israeli idols: Neo-paganism in the Jewish state

May 5: Women of valor: The forgotten history of women in Zionism

May 2: Free spirits: New Age culture in Israel

April 2016:

April 29: Desert eagles: American foreign policy in the Middle East

April 25: Gender segregation at Israeli beaches: How did it all start?

April 21: In Philip Roth's shadow: Sayed Kashua's 'authorial network'

April 18: Between Tel Aviv and Moscow: A Story of Zionism, Communism & disillusionment

April 15: Postwar justice, Soviet style

April 11: The decline and fall of the kibbutz: An appreciation

April 8: We have come to make the desert fiscally stable

April 4: Ze'ev Jabotinbsky: A maverick Zionist for his life

April 1: Damned to be blessed: Jewish exile as a metaphor

March 2016:

March 28: The two-state delusion: A coroner's report of a defunct solution

March 25: Sovereignty in exile: the curious case of Kiryas Yoel

March 21: The new left: Zionist youth movements in 1960s America

March 17: Occidentalism: Travels and migration in Arabic literature

March 14: A brief history of British Jewry

March 11: Know thy enemy: Zionism in Arab discourse

March 7: Britain's moment in Palestine: Dreams, politics & damage control

March 4: A specter haunting Europe: Between Jewish past and Muslim present

February 2016:

February 29: People of the visitor book: Commemorative practices in Jerusalem's war museum

February 26: The Israeli melting pot: A grassroots perspective

February 22: A program like no other: What Birthright Israel does right

February 19: Many types of belonging: New historiography of Mideastern Jews

February 15: Just a very naughty boy: Sabbatai Zevi and C17th Jewish messianism

February 12: Weimar in Jerusalem: Is Israel on a slippery slope to fascism?

February 8: Cyriac of Ancona, Europe's first archaeologist

February 5: No laughing matter: What studying humor can teach us about life

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