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New Books in Israel Studies
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Jason Lustig, "A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
57 mins; January 24, 2022
Gil Z. Hochberg, "Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future" (Duke UP, 2021)
50 mins; January 12, 2022
Gideon Sapir and Daniel Statman, "State and Religion in Israel: A Philosophical-Legal Inquiry" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
54 mins; January 11, 2022
Jonathan Schanzer, "Gaza Conflict 2021" (Foundation for Defense of Democracies, 2021)
57 mins; January 05, 2022
Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor, "The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians" (Duke UP, 2020)
54 mins; December 17, 2021
Yossi Alpher, "Death Tango: Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and Three Fateful Days in March" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
64 hours 44 mins; December 17, 2021
Craig Jones, "The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel, and Juridical Warfare" (Oxford UP, 2020)
55 mins; December 14, 2021
Rani Jaeger, "Abraham the Hebrew Believer: Secularism and Religion in the Work of Avraham Shlonsky (1900-1973)"
48 mins; December 01, 2021
David Barak-Gorodetsky, "Judah Magnes: The Prophetic Politics of a Religious Binationalist" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
42 mins; November 18, 2021
Yair Wallach, "A City in Fragments: Urban Texts in Modern Jerusalem" (Stanford UP, 2020)
84 hours 25 mins; November 15, 2021
Aaron Leibel, "Figs and Alligators: An American Immigrant's Life in Israel in the 1970s And 1980s" (Chickadee Prince, 2021)
71 hours 14 mins; November 04, 2021
Aubrey L. Glazer, "Mystical Vertigo: Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide" (Academic Studies Press, 2013)
57 mins; November 03, 2021
Rebecca L. Stein, "Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2021)
61 hours 11 mins; October 20, 2021
Mikhael Manekin, "The Dawn of Redemption: Ethics and Tradition in a Time of Power" (Evrit, 2021)
54 mins; October 13, 2021
Lorena De Vita, "Israelpolitik: German-Israeli Relations, 1949-69" (Manchester UP, 2021)
76 hours 12 mins; October 07, 2021
Shay Hazkani, "Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War" (Stanford UP, 2021)
82 hours 0 mins; September 29, 2021
Rawya Jarjoura Burbara, "On Wandering Beaches" (Pardes, 2020)
46 mins; September 23, 2021
Shachar-Mario Mordechai, "Make Room for the Rain" (Pardes, 2019)
69 hours 33 mins; September 22, 2021
Rachel Rojanski, "Yiddish in Israel: A History" (Indiana UP, 2020)
97 hours 40 mins; September 20, 2021
Emmanuel Navon, "The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
38 mins; September 16, 2021
Shlomit Naim Naor, "The Things We Are Not Talking About" (2020)
57 mins; September 13, 2021
The Small Literary Press: An Interview with Nana Ariel and Uri Yoeli of Home Press (Israel)
40 mins; September 13, 2021
Ori Yehudai, "Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
81 hours 49 mins; September 09, 2021
Lev Luis Grinberg, "Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Politics, Economy and Society in Israel/Palestine, 1931-2013" (Academics Studies Press, 2014)
100 hours 15 mins; August 31, 2021
Danny Adeno Abebe, "From Africa To Zion" (Miskal, 2021)
49 mins; August 31, 2021
HÊlène Jawhara Piùer, "Sephardi: Cooking the History. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Diaspora, from the 13th Century Onwards" (Cherry Orchard, 2021)
83 hours 37 mins; August 30, 2021
David J. Goldberg, “Rabbi With A Cause: Israel and Identity” (Open Agenda, 2021)
87 hours 36 mins; August 27, 2021
Naphtaly Shem-Tov, "Israeli Theatre: Mizrahi Jews and Self-Representation" (Routledge, 2021)
80 hours 24 mins; August 25, 2021
Sara Reguer, "Winston S. Churchill and the Shaping of the Middle East, 1919-1922" (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
68 hours 11 mins; August 24, 2021
Mati Shemoelof, "The Prize" (Pardes Publishing, 2021)
45 mins; July 19, 2021
Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Cultural Disjunctions: Post-Traditional Jewish Identities" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
50 mins; July 16, 2021
David Arnovitz, "Samuel: The Making of the Monarchy, Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel" (Koren Publishers, 2021)
18 mins; July 14, 2021
Assaf Shelleg, "Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project" (Oxford UP, 2020)
53 mins; July 02, 2021
Xenia Svetlova, "On Heels in the Middle East" (Pardes Publishing, 2020)
66 hours 19 mins; June 16, 2021
Michael Sorkin and Deen Sharp, "Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope" ( American University in Cairo Press, 2021)
35 mins; May 28, 2021
Heba Y. Amin, "The General's Stork" (Sternberg Press, 2020)
50 mins; May 25, 2021
Cary Nelson, "Not in Kansas Anymore: Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities" (AEN, 2021)
60 hours 59 mins; May 25, 2021
Teach-In on Sheikh Jarrah and Israel-Palestine
89 hours 34 mins; May 24, 2021
Leon R. Kass, "Founding God’s Nation: Reading Exodus" (Yale UP, 2021)
64 hours 41 mins; May 17, 2021
Mira Sucharov, "Borders and Belonging: A Memoir" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
52 mins; May 11, 2021
Stephen Fulder, "What's Beyond Mindfulness? Waking Up to This Precious Life" (Watkins, 2019)
48 mins; April 14, 2021
Dina Porat, "Vengeance and Retribution Are Mine: Community, the Holocaust, and Abba Kovner's Avengers" (Pardes, 2019)
62 hours 19 mins; April 06, 2021
Laura Robson, "The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East" (Oxford UP, 2020)
72 hours 7 mins; March 22, 2021
Jeffrey Shandler, "Yiddish: Biography of a Language" (Oxford UP, 2020)
63 hours 10 mins; March 22, 2021
David Stavrou, "Leaving Zion: The Israeli Diaspora in Europe" (Pardes, 2019)
60 hours 59 mins; March 02, 2021
An Intercultural Friendship in the Context of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
15 mins; February 10, 2021
N. Darshan-Leitner and S. M. Katz, "Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters" (Hachette, 2017)
56 mins; February 08, 2021
J. Jay Garfinkel, "Heirlooms : Memory and Cherished Objects" (One Family Foundation, 2020)
36 mins; January 31, 2021
David Nasaw, "The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War" (Penguin, 2020)
55 mins; January 19, 2021
Haggai Ram, "Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel" (Stanford UP, 2020)
31 mins; January 13, 2021
Jeremy Pressman, "The Sword is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force" (Manchester UP, 2020)
57 mins; January 07, 2021
Adina Hoffman, "Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City" (FSG, 2017)
51 mins; January 04, 2021
Michal S. Raucher, "Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority Among Haredi Women" (Indiana UP, 2020)
58 mins; December 17, 2020
Jerome Slater, "Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020" (Oxford UP, 2020)
75 hours 39 mins; November 17, 2020
Walker Robins, "Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptists and Palestine before Israel" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
56 mins; November 05, 2020
Alexis Wick, "The Red Sea In Search of Lost Space" (U California Press, 2016)
44 mins; October 12, 2020
Sophie Richter-Devroe, "Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
45 mins; October 05, 2020
Alexander Kaye, "The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel" (Oxford UP, 2020)
52 mins; September 09, 2020
Assaf Gavron, "The Hilltop" (Scribner, 2015)
50 mins; September 07, 2020
Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf, "The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace" (All Point Books, 2020)
64 hours 37 mins; August 06, 2020
Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek, "Sport, Politics, and Society in the Middle East" (Oxford UP, 2019)
68 hours 51 mins; July 29, 2020
Sigurd Neubauer, "The Gulf Region and Israel: Old Struggles, New Alliances" (Kodesh Press, 2020)
61 hours 50 mins; July 21, 2020
Stephan Talty, "The Good Assassin" (HMH, 2020)
41 mins; July 06, 2020
Greg Burris, "The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination" (Temple UP, 2019)
67 hours 4 mins; July 03, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
Dana El Kurd, "Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine" (Oxford UP, 2020)
53 mins; May 25, 2020
Yaacov Yadgar, "Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
55 mins; May 21, 2020
Derek Penslar, "Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader" (Yale UP, 2020)
52 mins; May 19, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
Carole Fink, "West Germany and Israel: Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
61 hours 55 mins; April 07, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
51 mins; March 30, 2020
Michael Fischbach, "The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left" (Stanford UP, 2019)
47 mins; March 30, 2020
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, "Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2020)
80 hours 50 mins; March 09, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; February 25, 2020
Nicholas Blincoe, "More Noble Than War: A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine" (Bold Type Books, 2019)
61 hours 59 mins; February 19, 2020
Yaakov Katz, "Shadow Strike: Inside Israel’s Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power" (St. Martin's Press, 2019)
58 mins; February 19, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
39 mins; January 30, 2020
Joyce Dalsheim, "Israel Has a Jewish Problem: Self Determination as Self Elimination" (Oxford UP, 2019)
41 mins; January 02, 2020
Julia Neuberger, "Antisemitism: What It Is, What It Isn’t, Why It Matters" (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2019)
49 mins; December 16, 2019
Lyn Julius, "Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018)
41 mins; December 09, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
57 mins; December 03, 2019
Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent" (Yale UP, 2019)
50 mins; November 11, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
37 mins; November 03, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
32 mins; October 24, 2019
Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, "Teaching Empathy and Reconciliation In Midst Of Conflict" (Wasatia Press, 2016)
70 hours 41 mins; October 22, 2019
Rachel Werczberger, "Jews In The Age Of Authenticity: Jewish Spiritual Renewal In Israel" (Peter Lang, 2016)
49 mins; October 01, 2019
Kfir Cohen Lustig, "Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs: Israeli and Palestinian Literature of the Global Contemporary" (Verso, 2019)
32 mins; September 24, 2019
Shai Lavi, "Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political and Empirical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
54 mins; August 12, 2019
Liat Steir-Livny, "Remaking Holocaust Memory: Documentary Cinema by Third Generation Survivors in Israel" (Syracuse UP, 2019)
45 mins; July 11, 2019
Miryam Sivan, "Make it Concrete" (Cuidono Press, 2019)
31 mins; July 09, 2019
Adriana X. Jacobs, "Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry" (U Michigan Press, 2018)
41 mins; May 02, 2019
Wendy Pearlman and Boaz Atzili, "Triadic Coercion: Israel’s Targeting of States That Host Nonstate Actors" (Columbia UP, 2018)
58 mins; April 29, 2019
Deborah E. Lipstadt, "Antisemitism: Here and Now" (Schocken, 2019)
53 mins; March 28, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
32 mins; March 19, 2019
Amit Pinchevski, "Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma" (Oxford UP, 2019)
48 mins; March 13, 2019
Oded Nir, "Signatures of Struggle: The Figuration of Collectivity in Israeli Fiction" (SUNY Press, 2018)
47 mins; February 22, 2019
Michael Fischbach, "Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color" (Stanford UP, 2018)
61 hours 4 mins; January 04, 2019
Suzanne Schneider, "Mandatory Separation: Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2018)
51 mins; December 31, 2018
Seth Anziska, "Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo" (Princeton UP, 2018)
52 mins; December 17, 2018
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
64 hours 1 min; December 06, 2018
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