Episode 5: When your family is taken hostage
This is a podcast about history, but also about this moment in history.Today's episode is a special one. Many of you asked about the hostages, about the activism of their families, about their shatter...
13 Maalis 20251h 27min
Episode 4 - Last Jew Standing: The story of Israeli Jews
Israeli Jews are the last surviving remnant of dozens of devastated Jewish communities across three continents. How did this history shape them? What do they understand about the world that few others...
6 Maalis 202558min
Episode 3: John Spencer on why Israel hasn't yet won the war in Gaza
In our first interview episode, Haviv Rettig Gur sits down (virtually) with Prof. John Spencer of West Point, one of the foremost experts in urban warfare who has made a special study of Israeli warfi...
26 Helmi 202554min
Comment: We will protect our own
Recorded Thursday, February 20thIsraelis watched horrified on Thursday, as Hamas gunmen conducted a ceremony handing over four coffins, two of them with the bodies of Kfir and Ariel Bibas, aged 1 and ...
20 Helmi 202520min
Episode 2: The lost history of American Jews
American Jews constitute the biggest, wealthiest, most influential and safest Jewish diaspora community in Jewish history, and also among the most Jewishly illiterate and profoundly anxious about thei...
18 Helmi 202543min
Episode 1: The Untold Story of Herzl's Journey to Zionism
It’s hard for a modern Jew to grasp the depth of marginalization and ostracism that even the most assimilated of Austrian Jews experienced in the 1890s. Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political ...
13 Helmi 202550min
Episode 0: History That Matters
"Ask Haviv Anything" is a podcast about history, a podcast you, dear listener, will help to shape and direct, focusing not just on what I want to talk about but on what you want to learn and discuss. ...
5 Helmi 202528min
