Tel Aviv Review

Portrait of the father of a nation Prof. Anita Shapira, one of Israel's most eminent historians of Zionism, discusses her newly published biography of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding prime minister, with host Gilad Halpern. Hebrew literature and the origins of Israeli malaise Yigal Schwarz, professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, discusses his latest book, The Zionist Paradox: Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity, which analyzes Israel's unique conceptualization of place through five canonical literary works.

Requiem for a bygone Jewish-Arab coexistence Prof. Menachem Klein, a Middle East history professor at Bar-Ilan University, discusses his recent book Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron. Jewish-Arab common identity in Palestine was later subsumed by mutually opposing national identities.   The Holocaust: The litmus test of the Israeli media Dr. Oren Meyers of the Department of Communications at the University of Haifa, co-author of Communicating Awe: Media Memory and Holocaust Commemoration, analyzes the disproportionate role Holocaust-related imagery plays in the Israeli media debate.   Music: Paul McCartneyEagle Eye Cherry - Save TonightCee Lo Green - Forget You

Palestinian students and the struggle for nationhood Dr. Ido Zelkovitz, a Middle East scholar at the University of Haifa, talks about his new book Students and Resistance in Palestine: Books, Guns and Politics, which explores the Palestinian student movement from a historical as well as sociological perspective. Ecologically underprivileged: Environmental justice in Israel Dr. Neta Lipman, deputy director of the Israeli Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, talks us about environmental justice: Is the green cause inextricably linked to social justice? And if so, how does it play out in America and Israel?   Music: Coldplay - MiraclesSoak - Be a noBodyNeil Young - Be the Rain

In 1948, Palestine saw Jewish refugees too Dr. Nurit Cohen Levinovsky, a historian and author of Jewish Refugees During the War of Independence, tells the story of the tens of thousands of Israeli Jews who became refugees during the War of Independence.   How the Bible became holy Michael Satlow, a religious and Judaic studies professor at Brown University (US) and author of How the Bible Became Holy, sheds some light on the selection and canonization processes over the centuries that brought the Bible to the special status it holds today.   Music: Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna KnowMuse - InvincibleDavid Bowie - China Girl

You're in the army now: How Judaism fell back in love with the military Prof. Stuart Cohen, a political scientist specializing in diplomatic and military history, explains how World War One - of all historical events - radically changed the attitude of Jews towards warfare. Holocaust research: From academia to the public realm Prof. Deborah Dwork, a historian of the Holocaust and Director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in the United States, discusses the production of knowledge about the Holocaust in an academic environment. Music: Muse - InvincibleDavid Bowie - China GirlYehuda Poliker - HaTachana Haba'a TreblinkaHachalonot Hagvohim - Chayal Shel Shokolad

Why the Diaspora is good for the Jews Prof. Alan Wolfe, a political scientist at Boston College, explores why so few Jews in the West acknowledge their good fortune, and how their relationship to their home countries and to Israel evolves as the memory of the Holocaust wanes. Narratives of betrayal in Holocaust survivors' memoirs Prof. Dennis Klein, a historian at Kean University in New Jersey, discusses the main themes that feature in memoirs written by Holocaust survivors - chief among them, a narrative of betrayal.   Music: Ibey - RiverMarina Maximilain Blumin - MaurinMatisyahu - Jerusalem

Political science: Early Israeli-German scientific exchanges Prof. Ute Deichmann, a historian of science at Ben Gurion University, tells us to what extent exchanges between Israeli and German scientists in the early years of the state paved the way for the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries.   Why secular people are more religious than they think Prof. Benjamin Beit Hallahmi of the department of psychology at Haifa University tries to establish why, 250 years into the age of secularism, religion still plays a crucial role in the lives of people everywhere.   Music: Blonde Redhead - The One I LoveBob Marley - One LoveShuly Rand - Mochin De'Katnoot

Why the Internet didn't kill the TV star Jerome Bourdon, a professor of communications at Tel Aviv University, tell us about the evolution of the peoplemeter from a simple instrument accumulating data for commercial purposes to a matter of public interest, and why it remains such an important tool today. Arizona and the Negev: An aquifer runs through them Prof. Sharon Megdal, director of the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Arizona, US, discusses how limited water resources should be managed in arid areas like Israel and Arizona, and what she has learned from (and taught) her Israeli colleagues.   Music: Mark Ronson feat. Robbie Williams - The Only One I KnowAlma Zohar - Shamaim AfrikaimShai Tzabari - Lavi Oti

Why we stayed: Confessions of postwar Polish Jews Prof. Marian Turski, Chairman of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, talks about Jewish life in Poland after the end of WWII, and explains why he and a handful other Polish Jews chose to stay in their native country despite persistent attempts to uproot them. The social psychology of the conflict Ruthie Pliskin, a social psychologist at Tel Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, talks about the role of emotions in determining political action, and where left-wingers and right-wingers differ in this respect.   Music: The Rolling Stones - Start Me UpAmy Winehouse - You Know That I’m No GoodThe Idan Raichel Project - She’eriot Shel Hachaim

Bottomless pit: The Cairo Geniza and the untold history of Medieval Jewry Dr. Moshe Lavee, a Talmud scholar at the University of Haifa, tells us about the Cairo Genizah – this trove of hundreds of thousands of Jewish texts, religious as well as non-religious, that was found inside a synagogue in the Egyptian capital and documents ten centuries of Jewish life there, most of which has been marginalized by the course of history. Imperial Capital: The capture of Jerusalem in WWI Dr. Justin Fantauzzo, a historian at the University of Windsor in Canada, whose research focuses on the capture of Jerusalem by the British army during the First World War. It turns out that the mainstream public opinion in Europe did not catch the Jerusalem syndrome – or perhaps they did, but not for the usual reasons. Music: Wyclef Jean featuring Mary J. Blige - 911 ft. Mary J. Blige The Roots & John Legend - Compared to What Dudu Tassa - Ben Shel Aba Sheli Mashina - Hakochavim Dolkim Al Esh Ktana Various Artists - God Only Knows (B

On our program today, our guests are: Lia Tarachansky, director of the film On the Side of the Road that tackles the way the Nakba – the heritage of the Palestinian defeat in 1948 – is perceived in Israeli society today. Prof. Motti Regev, a cultural sociologist and head of the Department of Literature, Language and the Arts at the Open University, talks to us about his new book Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity and about the historical event of Pop-Rock music, in Israel and elsewhere. Abigail Green, tutor and fellow in history at Brasenose College, Oxford, talks to us about Sir Moses Montefiore – the great Italian-British-Jewish philanthropist and virtually the first-ever world Jewish leader.

  Why do Jews play a "ridiculously disproportionate" role in the sciences? Dr. Noah Efron, the founding chair of the Program in Science, Technology, Society at Bar-Ilan University, and a fellow TLV1 broadcaster, recently published in English by Hebrew Union College Press and John Hopkins University Press. He will give his original take on a generations long question: Why are Jews so smart?     Bombay: Exploring the Jewish Urban Heritage   Dr. Shaul Sapir is a geography professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of several books. His most recent book, 'Bombay: Exploring the Jewish Urban Heritage,' tells us the outcome of unprecedented and meticulous research into the relatively obscure history of the predominantly Iraqi Jewish community in the Indian city.

How Israel successfully abolished the trafficking of women Dr. Nurit Hashimshony-Yaffe, a political scientist at the Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College, tells us about her most recent study, which focuses on how Israel managed to clamp down on a prosperous women trafficking industry. A Muslim and Democratic state: Lessons from Indonesia Dr. Giora Eliraz, a Middle East scholar from Hebrew University and the IDC in Herzliya, specializes in Islam in southeast Asia – namely, Indonesia and Malaysia. He discusses the exchange between the Islamic center and periphery on democracy and religion. Music: Mark Ronson feat. Amy Winehouse - Valerie Shotey Haneuva - Kol Galgal Maor Cohen - Shir Shel Yom Hulin John Legend - You And I Shalom Hanoch - Rak Ben Adam

Rise and decline of civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People Dr. Salomon Wald, senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem and author of Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People, tells us what the Jewish civilization, though unique in human history, has to learn from other people's mistakes.   The evolving national identity of Israeli Arabs Dr. Itamar Radai, director of the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation at the Moshe Dayan Center, discusses the evolving national identity of Israeli Arabs, or 'the Palestinian citizens of Israel' – what they're called depends on whom you ask.   Music: Hemi Rudner & Dan Toren - Imperiot Noflot Le'at Mira Awad - Bukra Prince and 3rd Eye Girl- Ain'tTurninRound Alt-J - Every Other Freckle Ester Rada - Could It Be

Under women's wings: The architecture of the ezrat nashim Adva Naama Baram, an architect and photographer specializing in architectural photography, talks about her new exhibition, currently showing at the Architects' House Gallery in Jaffa, dedicated to ezrat nashim – the women's section in synagogues across the country.     How Shlomo Sand stopped being a Jew Prof. Shlomo Sand, who just retired from a teaching position at the Department of History at Tel Aviv University, is probably best known for his bestselling The Invention of the Jewish People, whose final chapter, 'How I stopped Being A Jew,' just appeared in English.   Music: Arctic Monkeys - Do I Want To Know Hahazer Ha'achoirt - Lishrok Ba'hoshech Yehudit Ravitz - Boei Me'ahava Paul McCartney - New   Noa & Mira Awad - There Must Be Another Way

Water laws in British-ruled Palestine: A case study Dr. David Schorr, a historian of environmental law at Tel Aviv University's School of Law, tells us about the evolution of water laws in Palestine during the mandate years, and how the treatment of this scarce resource helped shape this country's political and legal reality in years to come. Darwinism vs. Creationism: Not just for Christians Dr. Rachel Pear, teaching assistant at the School of Education at Bar-Ilan University and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Haifa, gives us a breakdown of the great variety Jewish Orthodox attitudes to Darwin's theory of evolution over the years. Music: Prince - Kiss Dudu Tassa - Ani Guitara Cardigans - Lovefool The Who - Water Meir Ariel - Ma Hadash Bamada

Tortured by the State: Race and gender in contemporary Israel Prof. Smadar Lavie, visiting professor at UCC's Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century and author of Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture, tells us about the modalities of race and gender in contemporary Israel.   The everyday experience: Keeping monotony at bay Dr. Eran Dorfman, senior lecturer in French and Literature at Tel Aviv University and author of Foundations of the Everyday: Shock, Deferral, Repetition, shares with us the mechanisms that prevent our daily lives from becoming unchanging and monotonous.   Music: Duran Duran - A View To Kill Habiluim - Ballada Le'em Had Horit (Viki Knafo Item) The Angelcy - The Call Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans   Uzi Ramirez - Blossom

This week's show is a special one, because we only have one guest. But it's a very special guest: Dr Fania Oz-Salzberger, a historian at Haifa University and a leading public intellectual in Israel. She talks about the book Jews and Words, which she co-authored with her father Amos Oz, the famous Israeli novelist. It explores the importance of words to Jews over the generations.   Music: F.R David - Words Don't Come Easy Ha Hatzer Ha'achorit - Lishrok Bahoshech Robert Plant - Rainbow

A eulogy to a different kind of Zionism Prof. Ofer Shiff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, author of the recently published The Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel, talks about the American-Jewish leader who lost the argument for diaspora-based kind of Zionism. Airing grievances: A comparison of social protest movements Naama Nagar, a sociologist from the University of Wisconsin Madison, was closely involved in two almost simultaneous social protest movements in 2011; in Wisconsin and in her native Israel. She draws parallels between the two. Music: Audioslave - Show Me How To Live Otis Redding - I Love You More Than Words Can Say Radiohead - 2+2=5 Geva Alon - Yam Shaket Shalom Hanoch - Bagilgool Haze

The price of collaboration Prof. Menachem Hofnung, a political scientist from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, unveils a ground-breaking study that he has just concluded about Israel's treatment of Arab informants over the years. A time of harmonious coexistence We speak to the makers of the documentary film Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah, which explores the cordial relations between Jews and Berbers in Morocco that were severed when politics got in the way. Music: Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love Idan Raichel's Project - Beyom Shabat Ehud Banai - David & Shaul Incubus - Love Hurts Hatikva 6 - Od Pa'am Pa'am