Zionism
A conversation about how small magazines develop and publish big Jewish ideas.
The son of the human-rights icon joins us to discuss his father’s legacy, including his views on Zionism, Judaism, and Holocaust memory.
In 1897, the great Zionist writer Aḥad Ha’am argued that Jewish culture, not politics, was the best avenue to bring about a new Jewish state. This week’s podcast revisits his important ideas.
The historian brothers join us to talk about their Jewish upbringing, and the different paths they took away from the Conservative Judaism of their parents.
Deeply rooted, but with cosmopolitan horizons.
Strong enough to break through post-Zionist cynicism.
In praise of an unfashionable literary master.
The Jewish state has fulfilled many of his aspirations for the messianic era.
A great historian who saw through the conventional wisdom.
A tale of two Josephs.
Are there more important things than being a Jew?
Hermann Struck’s World War I.
Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof.
A tale of two Mordecais and a failed attempt to create a Jewish statelet in western New York.