Tel Aviv Review
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Showcasing the latest developments in the realm of academic and professional research and literature, about the Middle East and global affairs. We discuss Israeli, Arab and Palestinian society, the Jewish world, the Middle East and its conflicts, and issues of global and public affairs with scholars, writers and deep-thinkers.
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Jun 11, 2015 • 0sec
Landscape Orientalism: Early photography in the Holy Land
Dr. Edna Barromi Perlman talks about the landscape photography in Israel and how it became an effective political and ideological tool.
Jun 6, 2015 • 20min
The Prince: The emergence of the elites in early 20th-century Saudi Arabia
Nachum Shiloh, who's about to complete his PhD at Tel Aviv University's Department of History, talks to host Gilad Halpern about his research that focuses on the history of Saudi elites in the first half of the 20th century. In our minds, Saudi Arabia, to this day, has been an ultraconservative, almost medieval society, with a clear hierarchy and a coercive leadership. But it turns out that is not exactly the case.
Jun 5, 2015 • 26min
The myth of the cultural Jew
Prof. Roberta Ronsethal Kwall, a legal scholar and the founding director of the DePaul University College of Law, has just authored a new book entitled The Myth of the Cultural Jew – Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition. She explains to host Gilad Halpern why even the most secular Jews have imbibed the halakha, whether they like it or not.
Jun 2, 2015 • 21min
The Prince: The emergence of elites in early 20th-century Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has always seemed an ultraconservative society, with a clear hierarchy and a coercive leadership.
May 22, 2015 • 16min
Let there be light! The evolution of candle-lighting practices in Ashkenaz
Dr. Susan Nashman Fraiman, an art historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, tells host Gilad Halpern about her recent research, which focuses on the emergence and evolution of candle-lighting practices – namely, the Shabbat Lamp – among the Jews of Ashkenaz.
May 22, 2015 • 22min
On the beneficiaries and victims of 'Ashkenazi privilege' in Israel
Prof. Meir Amor, an Israeli sociologist teaching at Concordia University in Canada, has been a Mizrahi activist for decades, as well as a long-time researcher of the Mizrahi question. Prof. Amor talks to host Gilad Halpern about the principles of the Mizrahi struggle, theoretical as well as practical.
May 15, 2015 • 25min
Hannah Arendt under the microscope
Dr. Michal Aharony, political philosophy and Holocaust studies professor at Beit Berl Academic College, recently authored Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Total Domination: The Holocaust, Plurality and Resistance. Dr. Aharony talks to host Gilad Halpern about her work, which evaluates the Jewish-German philosopher's theories on totalitarianism through testimonies of Holocaust victims and survivors.
May 15, 2015 • 18min
Le parti c'est moi: Ben-Gurion and Mapai party politics in the early state years
Dr. Avi Bareli, a historian of Zionism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, recently authored Authority and Participation in a New Democracy: Political Struggles in Mapai, Israel's Ruling Party, 1948-1953. Dr. Bareli talks to host Gilad Halpern about opposition to Ben-Gurion's leadership from within the party, and how Israel's first prime minister was much less of a power-hungry, dictatorial leader than often thought.
May 13, 2015 • 0sec
Hannah Arendt under the microscope
Evaluating the Jewish-German philosopher's theories on totalitarianism through testimonies of Holocaust victims and survivors.
May 9, 2015 • 21min
Moments and movements of resistance in Israel and beyond
Prof. Lev Grinberg, a sociologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, joins host Gilad Halpern to discuss his new book Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Politics, Economy and Society in Israel/Palestine 1931-2013. He gives a fresh analysis of power relations between the political hegemony and the people, exploring seven instances in the history of Israel.
