Our guest in this new episode is Israel historian Prof. Orit Rozin, from the Faculty of Humanities, Dept. of Jewish History. Her areas of research are vast: Social, cultural, and legal history of Israel; Relations between citizens and state; Jewish immigration;

Law and national identity; Women’s History; Civil and social rights; History of emotions; Food history; The Arab-Israeli Conflict; Terror and civil society. In her unique approach she is bringing into consideration the emotional aspects of history, looking at immigrant groups, for example, from a unique perspective.

Prof. Rozin is the author of three books: Her first book, The Hard Duty of Love, Individual and Collective in Israel in the Fifties (2008), won the Jonathan Shapira Prize from the Association for Israel Studies in 20...