Izabella Tabarovsky and Prof. Khinvraj Jangid, fellows at the Elizabeth and Tony Comper Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism at the University of Haifa, discuss the landscape of antisemitism in two non-Western environments: the Post-Soviet and the Indian. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

This month's subscribers-only episode was recorded before Netanyahu's super-sparta speech, but gives important context as to how and why the PM's vision is unrealistic. www.patreon.com/posts/israel...

Amos Goldberg, Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a renowned historian of the Holocaust, explains why he believes Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and weighs in on the role of historians and public intellectuals in addressing it. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

How do you neutralise all the background noise to tell Israelis the real story of Iran? Prof. @liorsternfeld.bsky.social , author of the Hebrew book "Iran: Life Itself" explains in this subscribers-only episode. Sign up to listen. www.patreon.com/c/telavivrev...

Guy Miron, professor of modern European Jewish history at the Open University of Israel, @yadvashem.bsky.social and @leobaeckjeru.bsky.social , discusses his most recent book, "Space and Time Under Persecution: The German-Jewish Experience in the Third Reich." tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Against the backdrop of renewed violence in Syria, listen to this month's subscribers-only bonus episode, featuring @telavivuni.bsky.social 's Dr Ido Yahel, with a long-view analysis of the recent and more distant upheavals. Sign up here: www.patreon.com/c/telavivrev...

Jonthan Dekel-Chen, Professor of Soviet and East European Jewry at the @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social, takes a long view on the history of Jews in Russia and its past and present territories, from the turn of the 20th century to the 21st. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

They say your book isn’t really published until it’s on @telavivreview.bsky.social. Thanks to Gilad Halpern for the thoughtful conversation about A New Orient! 🎧 tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

This month's bonus episode for subscribers of the Tel Aviv Review is with the doyenne of constitutional law in Israel - Prof. Suzie Navot, the vice-president of the Israel Democracy Institute. Despite the war with Hamas, the judicial coup is here, in full force. www.patreon.com/posts/129330...

Dr Rona Aviram, a scientist, and Omer Benjakob, a journalist – both fellows at Brandeis University’s Institute of Advanced Israel Studies – discuss Wikipedia’s bumpy road towards becoming the go-to source of knowledge online. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

NEW RELEASE: Dr Anna Kushkova, an anthropologist, postdoctoral fellow at the @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social 's Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry, discusses her research on Jewish underground entrepreneurial networks in the Soviet Union. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Neta Shoshani’s documentary film "1948: Remember, Remember Not" was commissioned by Kan, Israel’s public broadcaster for the country’s 75th Independence Day. Almost two years on, it has yet to be broadcast, in the wake of a right-wing campaign that claims that it defames Israel.

@tomeshed.bsky.social , postdoctoral fellow at the @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social ’s Jacob Robinson Institute for the history of individual and collective rights, discusses knowledge production on Antisemitism in the wake of the Second World War in Israel and abroad. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

This month's bonus episode is the Tel Aviv Review's first-ever exclusive interview: Stanford University historian Steven Zipperstein discusses his forthcoming book "Philip Roth: Stung by Life". For just $10 per month, you will get exclusive subscription-only episodes >

Law Prof @adamshinar.bsky.social Reichman University discusses the recent return of Israel’s Film and Theatre Review Board from oblivion to serve the government’s political goals. How did Israel’s censorship laws evolve over the years? tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Dr. Iris Nachum introduces the jurist Jacob Robinson (1889-1977), emphasizing his activism for minority rights and compensation for expulsion. A research institute in his name has recently been established at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Dr Lee Mordechai, a historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses Bearing Witness to the Gaza War, a comprehensive database of facts and figures that he meticulously collected since October 7, 2023.

NEW RELEASE: Elyakim Rubinstein has had an incredibly prolific career in academia, politics, diplomacy and the judiciary. Among his many accomplishments, he served as cabinet secretary, AG, chargé d’affaires in Israel’s embassy in Washington, and deputy chief justice until his retirement in 2017.

This is a message to our loyal listeners: Every month beginning February 2025, we will be offering special Tel Aviv Review episodes - usually with a stronger connection to the current news cycle - exclusively to subscribers. >>

Marian Turski, arguably the greatest Jewish intellectual of postwar Poland, has died aged 98. In this interview from 2014, he talks about why he and a handful of other Jews chose to stay in Poland. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Dr. Eran Shlomi discusses Zionist diplomacy and representation at the League of Nations, the UN predecessor, during the interwar period. He analyzes the League’s role in the Zionist path to statehood. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

NEW RELEASE: Dr. Yael Dekel, a literary scholar at the Open University and Ben Gurion University, talks about the Literary Laboratory: how can digital methods be used to study the canon of Hebrew literature – and redefine it, along the way? tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

As population transfers are back in the new, listen to this interview from 2024 with historian Dr. Nimrod Lin, who has studied Zionist attitudes towards demography under the British Mandate. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

It was a pleasure discussing my new book with Gilad Halpern. Do give this a listen @yalebooks.bsky.social

NEW RELEASE: @nirarielli.bsky.social discusses his new book "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History". tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Dr. Timo Aava examines Estonia’s establishment of non-territorial autonomies during the interwar period, with a particular focus on the Jewish self-government case, thereby providing intriguing insights into Estonia’s treatment of minorities. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Prof. Rotem Giladi discusses his book “Jews, Sovereignty, and International Law: Ideology and Ambivalence in Early Israeli Legal Diplomacy” (Oxford 2021), which explores the role of ideology in shaping Israel’s early attitudes towards international law. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Anne Rethmann examines post-1945 human rights discourses, highlighting the concept of justice by the Austrian-Jewish lawyer Franz Bienenfeld. Comparing it with T. W. Adorno’s notion of maturity, she emphasizes the significance of dignity within the framework of human rights. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Dr. Jonathan Grossman explores Israel’s evolving attitude and discourse toward Israeli emigrants, shifting from viewing them as selfish deserters to embracing them as loyal partners, fostering a legitimate and valuable diaspora community abroad. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Yael Zerubavel, Prof Emerita of Jewish Studies and History at @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social , discusses her new book "Desert, Island, Wall: Symbolic Landscapes and the Politics of Space in Israeli Culture", an updated version of her 2019 book "Desert in the Promised Land". tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

[email protected] , Professor of International Studies and History and Distinguished Endowed Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, discusses her book "The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past." tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Dr (Col. res.) Eran Shamir-Borer of the @israeldemocracy.bsky.social thinks Israel's legal standing is far from pleasing. And when a former IDF Military Advocate General official says it, it should be taken seriously. Tune in to find out why. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

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NEW RELEASE: The great Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury died in September, aged 76. Tel Aviv U's Prof. Yehouda Shenhav translated a staggering 10 of his books into Hebrew, and was a close personal friend. In this episode, he pays tribute to him. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Prof. Orit Rozin, a historian at Tel Aviv University, discusses her new book "Emotions of Conflict: Israel 1949-1967," analyzing the efforts of the Israeli establishment in the 1950s and 60s to control the people’s emotional response to the impending sense of insecurity. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Eviatar Zerubavel, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social , discusses his new book “Don’t Take It Personally: Personalness and Impersonality in Social Life.” tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

[email protected] , an American journalist (Dissent, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian) and PhD candidate in history at Yale University, discusses his new book "Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life." tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

First pictures from last week's live recording with Rachel Shabi in Tel Aviv, hosted by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Audio to follow. @yaelberda.bsky.social @rachelshabi.bsky.social

NEW RELEASE: Dr Brandon Friedman, a research fellow at TAU’s Dayan Center for Middle Eastern & African Studies specializing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries, discusses the future of Middle Eastern geopolitics in the wake of Oct 7 & ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

The fall of Bashar al Assad is a good time to recall our 2017 interview with war reporter Jonathan Spyer, about his then-new book “Days of the Fall: A Reporter’s Journey in the Syria and Iraq Wars”. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Dr Yoav Fromer, a senior lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies and the head of the Center of US Studies at Tel Aviv University, discusses his new book (co-edited with Ilan Peleg), The Americanization of the Israeli Right. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Happening tomorrow!

Join us for a live recording of the Tel Aviv Review podcast this Wednesday in Tel Aviv. @rachelshabi.bsky.social will be discussing her book "Off White: The Truth About Antisemitism" (Oneworld, Jan. 2025) with Gilad Halpern and @yaelberda.bsky.social Come one, come all.

Eran Halperin, prof of psychology at Hebrew U and the founding director of aChord, a research center dedicated to promoting social change in Israel through the tools of social psychology, discusses his new book, "Warning: Hate Ahead." tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

NEW RELEASE: Galit Cohen, Director of the Program on Climate Change TAU’s Institute for National Security Studies and ex Director General of Environment Ministry, discusses climate crisis implications on national security and the importance of policymaking in moving forward. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Dr Matthias Becker, research fellow at Reichman University and the University of Cambridge, discusses his Decoding Antisemitism project, using novel scholarly and technological tools to monitor and analyze online hate speech. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Timothy Snyder's 2016 book On Tyranny is making the rounds after Trump's election victory. Snyder discussed the book in front of a live audience in New York, in 2017. In a way, it's more topical today than it was then. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

From Yaacov Yadgar, the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford, comes his new book "To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism." This volume offers a critical re-assessment of the meaning of modern Jewish identity and politics.

New issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature just out, guest edited by Michael Kramer, on Jewish American Periodicals. This is a really amazing piece of work; Kol HaKavod to Michael! scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/sajl/is...