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Israel Studies
Interviews with scholars of Israel about their new books.
June 4, 2024
German Jerusalem
In the 1920s, before the establishment of the state of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a garden city on the outskirts of Jerusalem. During…
June 3, 2024
Kafka's Last Trial
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfill Kafka’s last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscript…
May 27, 2024
Iran and Palestine
In Iran and Palestine: Past, Present and Future (Routledge, 2019), Seyed Ali Alavi (SOAS University of London) surveys the history of the relationship…
May 15, 2024
Elastic Empire
The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on …
May 13, 2024
What does Biden’s temporary suspension of offensive arms transfers mean for US-Israeli relations?
Charles Blaha, a former State Department expert on the vetting of U.S. weapons transfers to other countries, helps us understand this important moment…
May 8, 2024
The Making of an Alliance
Laying the foundation for an understanding of US-Israeli relations, this lively and accessible book provides critical background on the origins and de…
May 7, 2024
My Brother, My Land
My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine (Redwood Press, 2024) is a riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one f…
May 1, 2024
The Rhetoric of Crisis in Israel-Palestine
This week, RBI Director John Torpey speaks with Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jew…
April 1, 2024
Brothers and Sisters for Israel (“Achim Baneshek”)
How does an organization change in an instant, shift its focus and mission in response to a new reality? One volunteer organization did just that. I…
March 19, 2024
Establishment and History of the Cyprus Detention Camps for Jewish Refugees (1946-1949).
Yaacov Nir's Establishment and History of the Cyprus Detention Camps for Jewish Refugees (1946-1949) (Cambridge Scholars, 2024) explores the nature of…
March 9, 2024
On America’s Blind Spot Towards the Palestinians
In their handling of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process over the decades, U.S. officials have displayed a “systemic blind spot” by alleviating pres…
March 9, 2024
Uprooting the Diaspora
In Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the Ethnic Revolution in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946 (Indiana UP, 2023), Sarah Cramsey explor…
February 13, 2024
Jewish War Ethics, Ancient to Contemporary
How should we think about violent accounts in the Bible? Why did Gandhi urge the Jews to turn a blind eye to anti-Semitism during World War II? What i…
January 22, 2024
On Zionism and the Left
“How has it come to this? How has ‘Zionist’…become the dirtiest word to the international Left?” Susie Linfield poses that ripe question at the outse…
January 18, 2024
The Cyprus Detention Camps
Beginning in August 1946, stateless and visaless Jews, most of them survivors of the Nazi death camps, who sought to immigrate to the Land of Israel w…
January 17, 2024
What Can We Learn From A Pottery Shard?
Some people are good at what they do, some are enthusiastic about their work. This guest brings both to bear in his exploration of the ancient past.…
January 16, 2024
Our Palestine Question
American Jews began debating Palestinian rights issues even before Israel’s founding in 1948. Geoffrey Levin recovers the voices of American Jews who,…
January 15, 2024
Eighteen Days in October
October 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, a conflict that shaped the modern Middle East. The War was a trauma for Israel, a dange…
January 14, 2024
Hamas
The world is reeling from the savage terror attack that brutalized, raped, murdered and kidnapped Israelis and civilians from at least 25 other countr…
January 4, 2024
Violent Majorities: Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism (Episode 3 of 3)
Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen turn from hosts to interlocutors in an episode that ties a bow on our Violent Majorities conversations about Indian…