| To Be a Jewish State |
A book launch event marking the publication of Yaacov Yadgar's new book, To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism. The author in conversation with Amnon Ray-Krakotzkin |
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, David Borabeck, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Atalia Omer - Pathways toward a Jewish Israeli Restorative Ethics |
Atalia Omer discusses restorative justice practices and the possibilities (and limits) of Jewish critiques of Zionism. |
Atalia Omer, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 3: Israel: a dialogue between Yehouda Shenhav (Tel Aviv) and Yaacov Yadgar (Oxford) |
Yehouda Shenhav and Yaacov Yadgar discuss the uses and misuses of a discourse on “Judaism” in Israel. Session 3 in a series of three. |
Yehouda Shenhav, Yuval Evri, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Yaacov Yadgar - The Nation-State bill and the meaning of Israel’s Jewish identity |
Yaacov Yadgar discusses the recently passed Basic-Law: Israel the Nation State of the Jewish People, and discusses how it plays into Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis |
Yaacov Yadgar |
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| The Question of Judeo-Arabic: Nation, Partition, and the Linguistic Imaginary |
Ella Shohat (New York University) gives a lecture for the middle east centre, chaired by Yaacov Yadgar (Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies, St Anne's). Comments by Yuval Evri (SOAS). |
Ella Shohat, Yaacov Yadgar, Yuval Evri |
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| Rami Ginat - Egyptian Communist Voices of Peace (1947-1958) |
Rami Ginat discusses the Egyptian Communist Party's stance on Israel in its formative first decade of statehood. |
Rami Ginat, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Faisal Devji: Jewish Pecedents and Muslim Nationalism |
Faisal Devji discusses the surprising relations between Pakistani nationalism and Zionism. |
Faisal Devji, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Yuval Evri: Andalusian Legacies: the role of al-Andalus/Sepharad in the political and cultural history of Israel/Palestine |
Yuval Evri discusses the uses of the the image of Al-Andalus in political and cultural discourses in the turn of the 20th Century. |
Yuval Evri, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Galia Sabar: African Migration to Israel - Chronicle of a Failure Foretold |
The history and politics of African migration to Israel |
Galia Sabar, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Almog Behar - Between Hebrew and Arabic |
The politics, culture, and reality of Hebrew and Arabic in Israel and beyond. |
Almog Behar, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Haim Yacobi - Israel, Africa: Identity, Culture and Politics |
Haim Yacobi (UCL) gives a talk on Israel in Africa, Africa (and Africans) in Israel. |
Haim Yacobi, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Avi Shlaim - A Jordanian Perspective on Israel |
Prof. Avi Shlaim reviews the history of the Jordanian-Israeli relations, and considers how Israel is viewed and understood from the Jordanian side |
Avi Shlaim, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Birth of the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi Controversy on the ‘Arab Question’ (1910-12) |
On 'the mother' of all ensuing Mizrahi–Ashkenazi ethnic controversies. |
Moshe Behar, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Jews, Israel and Debate: Understanding Israel in the Diaspora |
Why and how should we study Diaspora Jews' relation to Israel? |
Ilan z Baron, Yaacov Yadgar |
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