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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.

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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. >>

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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[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...

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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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THE HIT PARADE: Most listened-to episodes in 2024 #9 tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

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THE HIT PARADE: Most listened-to episodes in 2024 - #10 tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv... @yaelberda.bsky.social

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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...

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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...

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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...

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[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...

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Happening tomorrow!

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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Roni Stauber, Professor of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, discusses his book "Diplomacy in the Shadow of Memory: Israel and West Germany, 1953-1965." tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

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NEW RELEASE: Daniel Lörcher, the founding director of What Matters, an organization that tackles racism, antisemitism and discrimination on the soccer field, discusses how sports culture can – and does – help create an atmosphere that promotes tolerance and pluralism. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

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This episode is well worth a listen - Lin is one of the more interesting emerging historians of Zionism/Israel. And the TAR podcast in general is great

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In our latest episode in partnership with Brandeis' University Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, historian Dr. Nimrod Lin discusses his forthcoming book "People Who Count: Zionism, Demography and Democracy in Mandate Palestine." tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

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Dr Tammy Hoffman, the Head of the Education Policy Program at the Israel Democracy Institute and a lecturer at Hakibbutzim College of Education, explains how public education can tackle the erosion of democratic norms and the adverse effects of social media on society. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

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Launched in 2013, the Tel Aviv Review's archive has more than 1,000 long-form, in-depth interviews with authors, writers and intellectuals. They are available for download here: tlv1.fm/content/the-...

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