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Recent Episodes
Omer Bartov on Israel, Zionism, and the Reckoning with History
Can a country confront its past without putting its founding ideals into question? Historian Omer Bartov reflects on how Israel’s understanding of the Holocaust has changed, how the events of October 7 and the war in Gaza transformed his own thinking, and why he believes the country must confront difficult truths about its past.
Theorizing Israel/Palestine
A Palestinian political and legal philosopher explores political theory, citizenship, competing Israeli and Palestinian historical narratives, and the challenges of translating between Palestinian demands and Jewish Israeli fears.
Special Podcast Series
About the Hosts
Gilad Halpern
Gilad is a journalist, broadcaster and media historian. He is also a founding co-editor of the Tel Aviv Review of Books magazine, an English-language online quarterly, and an Idit Fellow at the University of Haifa, researching the history of the Jewish press in Mandatory Palestine. Previously he was Managing Editor for Ynetnews and Assignments Editor for Haaretz English Edition. His work appeared on the BBC, Al Jazeera, Al Monitor, Time Out magazine, the Jewish Quarterly and the Jewish Chronicle.
Carlo Ginzburg: In Memoriam
Carlo Ginzburg, arguably the greatest living historian until his death this past June, changed how we understand the past. His 1976 classic, "The Cheese and the Worms," about a sixteenth-century Italian miller, launched microhistory itself. But who was the man behind the method?