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Yiddish in Israel: A History
71 hours 1 min; March 27, 2026
The Shtetl: Myth and Reality with Samuel Kassow
68 hours 45 mins; February 27, 2026
David Frankfurter ed., "Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic" (Brill, 2019)
39 mins; February 19, 2026
Matti Friedman, "Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai" (Spiegel & Grau, 2022)
63 hours 4 mins; February 09, 2026
Adam S. Ferziger. "Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism" (NYU Press, 2025)
57 mins; January 04, 2026
Elizabeth E. Imber, "Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism" (Stanford UP, 2025)
72 hours 46 mins; September 26, 2025
Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, "Rethinking Jewish History and Memory Through Photography" (SUNY Press, 2025)
52 mins; September 06, 2025
Thane Rosenbaum, "Beyond Proportionality" (Wicked Son, 2025)
60 hours 36 mins; September 05, 2025
Aviva Guttmann, "Operation Wrath of God: The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad's Assassination Campaign" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
50 mins; August 11, 2025
Ilana Rosen, "Israeli Documentary Poetry: Coming of Age with the State" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
58 mins; July 24, 2025
Yardena Schwartz, "Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (Union Square, 2024)
48 mins; July 11, 2025
Yardena Schwartz, "Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (Union Square, 2024)
48 mins; July 11, 2025
Andrew Tobolowsky, "Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
57 mins; July 07, 2025
Elana Gomel, "The Pilgrim Soul: Being a Russian in Israel" (Cambria Press, 2009)
62 hours 1 min; June 29, 2025
Krista N. Dalton, "How Rabbis Became Experts: Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2025)
52 mins; May 28, 2025
Toine van Teeffelen, "The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
61 hours 20 mins; May 24, 2025
Yitzhak Conforti, "Zionism and Jewish Culture: A Study in the Origins of a National Movement" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
53 mins; May 23, 2025
Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism: An Emotional State" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
60 hours 12 mins; May 21, 2025
David Kraemer, "Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora" (Oxford UP, 2025)
62 hours 37 mins; May 17, 2025
Orit Rozin, "Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967" (Oxford UP, 2024)
66 hours 34 mins; April 07, 2025
Rhys Machold, "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel" (Stanford UP, 2024)
38 mins; March 29, 2025
Ofra Amihay, "The People of the Book and the Camera: Photography in the Hebrew Novel" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
92 hours 13 mins; March 20, 2025
Margaret Peacock, "Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East" (U California Press, 2025)
64 hours 3 mins; March 08, 2025
Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025)
63 hours 22 mins; March 07, 2025
Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)
44 mins; March 06, 2025
Amit Levy, "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
67 hours 52 mins; February 21, 2025
David Graves, "New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting" (Austin Macauley, 2023)
47 mins; February 11, 2025
Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)
54 mins; February 06, 2025
Yitzchak Etshalom, "Amos: The Genius of Prophetic Rhetoric" (Maggid, 2024)
24 mins; January 14, 2025
The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life
67 hours 12 mins; January 03, 2025
Yaacov Yadgar, "To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism" (NYU Press, 2024)
59 mins; December 16, 2024
Azad Essa, "Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel" (Pluto Press, 2023)
74 hours 0 mins; December 13, 2024
Middle East on the Brink: Escalation, Diplomacy, and the Search for Stability
38 mins; November 24, 2024
Writing on the Wall: A Conversation with William Kolbrener
34 mins; November 23, 2024
Hannah Pollin-Galay, "Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
58 mins; November 15, 2024
Parker Palmer on the Israel-Gaza War
55 mins; November 09, 2024
Roni Henig, "On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
51 mins; November 07, 2024
The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7
37 mins; November 05, 2024
Avi Shlaim, "Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew" (Oneworld, 2024)
59 mins; November 03, 2024
Eran Ortal, "Battle Before the War: The Inside Story of the IDF's Transformation" (Dado Center, 2023)
59 mins; October 20, 2024
Hannan Hever, "Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War: Essays on Philology and Responsibility" (Brill, 2019)
80 hours 15 mins; September 22, 2024
Shane Burley and Ben Lorber, "Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism" (Melville House, 2024)
68 hours 1 min; September 21, 2024
Seth J. Frantzman, "The October 7 War: Israel's Battle for Security in Gaza" (Wicked Son, 2024)
37 mins; September 18, 2024
Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold, "Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
39 mins; September 15, 2024
Aviad Moreno, "Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community" (Indiana UP, 2024)
59 mins; September 14, 2024
Oren Kroll-Zeldin, "Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine" (NYU Press, 2024)
65 hours 5 mins; September 06, 2024
Cary Nelson, "Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
38 mins; September 04, 2024
Notes from the Field: A Personal View of the War on Gaza
42 mins; August 28, 2024
Anders Persson, "EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
58 mins; August 24, 2024
Shaul Magid, "Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical" (Princeton UP, 2021)
62 hours 11 mins; August 15, 2024
Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff, "Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making" (SUNY Press, 2020)
68 hours 56 mins; August 12, 2024
Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
53 mins; August 01, 2024
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, "The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973: The USSR's Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2017)
77 hours 5 mins; July 28, 2024
Hannan Hever, "Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s" (Stanford UP, 2016)
106 hours 22 mins; July 23, 2024
Fida Jiryis, "Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home" (Hurst, 2022)
74 hours 2 mins; July 18, 2024
Jonathan Marc Gribetz, "Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
28 mins; July 15, 2024
Olga Gershenson, "New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
45 mins; July 13, 2024
Maya Wind, "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom" (Verso, 2024)
46 mins; July 12, 2024
Rachel Z. Feldman, "Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
65 hours 28 mins; July 09, 2024
Jonathan Judaken, "Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism" (Columbia UP, 2024)
76 hours 29 mins; July 07, 2024
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, "An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948" (Columbia UP, 2024)
53 mins; June 29, 2024
Anat Kidron and Shuli Linder Yarkony, "The Jewish Community of Acre in Mandatory Palestine: The Story of a Forgotten Community" (de Gruyter, 2024)
69 hours 8 mins; June 18, 2024
Peter Bergamin, "The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology” (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
37 mins; June 10, 2024
Asaf Elia-Shalev, "Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth" (U California Press, 2024)
63 hours 18 mins; June 07, 2024
Thomas Sparr, "German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City" (Haus Publishers, 2021)
25 mins; June 04, 2024
Benjamin Balint, "Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy" (Norton, 2019)
41 mins; June 03, 2024
Seyed Ali Alavi, "Iran and Palestine: Past, Present, and Future" (Routledge, 2019)
24 mins; May 27, 2024
Lisa Bhungalia, "Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2023)
47 mins; May 15, 2024
What does Biden’s temporary suspension of offensive arms transfers mean for US-Israeli relations?
30 mins; May 13, 2024
David Tal, "The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
36 mins; May 08, 2024
Sami Hermez, "My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine" (Redwood Press, 2024)
49 mins; May 07, 2024
The Rhetoric of Crisis in Israel-Palestine: A Discussion with Amos Goldberg
51 mins; May 01, 2024
Brothers and Sisters for Israel (“Achim Baneshek”): A Conversation with Ronen Koehler
43 mins; April 01, 2024
Yaacov Nir, "Establishment and History of the Cyprus Detention Camps for Jewish Refugees (1946-1949)" (Cambridge Scholars, 2024)
64 hours 13 mins; March 19, 2024
Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013:: An Anthropological Approach
49 mins; March 12, 2024
Sarah A. Cramsey, "Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the Ethnic Revolution in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946" (Indiana UP, 2023)
55 mins; March 09, 2024
On America’s Blind Spot Towards the Palestinians
65 hours 41 mins; March 09, 2024
Jewish War Ethics, Ancient to Contemporary: A Conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Brody
55 mins; February 14, 2024
On Zionism and the Left: A Discussion with Author and Cultural Critic Susie Linfield
65 hours 33 mins; January 22, 2024
Yitzhak Teutsch, "The Cyprus Detention Camps: The Essential Research Guide" (Cambridge Scholars, 2019)
109 hours 14 mins; January 18, 2024
What Can We Learn From A Pottery Shard? Uncovering the Ancient Past Through Biblical Archeology with Professor Aren Maeir
33 mins; January 17, 2024
Geoffrey Levin, "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978" (Yale UP, 2023)
68 hours 39 mins; January 16, 2024
Uri Kaufman, "Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
57 mins; January 15, 2024
Matthew Levitt, "Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad" (Yale UP, 2008)
33 mins; January 14, 2024
120 A Roundup Conversation About Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism
47 mins; January 04, 2024
Violent Majorities: Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 2
49 mins; December 14, 2023
Raquel Ukeles et al., "101 Treasures from the National Library of Israel" (Scala Arts, 2022)
39 mins; December 09, 2023
Ibrahim Fraihat and Isak Svensson, "Conflict Mediation in the Arab World" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
51 mins; December 05, 2023
Dan Senor and Saul Singer, "The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
24 mins; November 26, 2023
Israel, Hamas, and American Jews in a Time of War
37 mins; November 22, 2023
Providence and Power: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik on Jewish Statesmanship from King David to David Ben Gurion
53 mins; November 21, 2023
Shay Rabineau, "Walking the Land: A History of Israeli Hiking Trails" (Indiana UP, 2023)
59 mins; November 12, 2023
Steven Simon, "Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East" (Penguin, 2023)
60 hours 42 mins; November 11, 2023
Hamas, Iran and Israel: The Perils of Overreaction
34 mins; November 06, 2023
On Wars: A Discussion with Michael Mann
52 mins; October 31, 2023
Nick Riemer, "Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
63 hours 28 mins; October 27, 2023
Linda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
43 mins; October 26, 2023
Itamar Rabinovich, "Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, the Arabs and the Region" (Brookings Institution Press, 2023)
38 mins; October 25, 2023
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF)'s Ethical Code
52 mins; October 24, 2023
Noa Shaindlinger, "Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
64 hours 9 mins; October 22, 2023
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