Episodes

  • Derek Penslar

    Derek Penslar
    Mar 26 2024

    Derek Penslar discusses Chaim Nachman Bialik's Kishinev poems, and what they have meant to him in the past and today.
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    26 mins
  • Vanessa Ochs

    Vanessa Ochs
    Mar 26 2024

    Vanessa Ochs discusses Shabbat tables,missing chairs, and new or remade rituals that emerged in the wake of October 7.
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    28 mins
  • Arie Dubnov

    Arie Dubnov
    Mar 26 2024

    Arie Dubnov considers Moshe Dayan's 1956 eulogy in the memory of Ro'i Rotberg, who was killed by Palestinians on a kibbutz in the south of Israel to ask what that iconic speech tells us about neighbors, borders, and the Israeli nation-building project.
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    32 mins
  • Michal Kravel-Tovi

    Michal Kravel-Tovi
    Mar 26 2024

    Drawing on a comparison to activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Michal Kravel-Tovi explores how civil societies in Israel and elsewhere confront the absence of state structures.
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    34 mins
  • Elisheva Baumgarten

    Elisheva Baumgarten
    Mar 26 2024

    Elisheva Baumgarten discusses the ever changing concept of “Home” through two different medieval texts about the Jews who settled in Speyer, Germany.

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    34 mins