Susannah Heschel: Judaism Unbound Podcast Episode 467 - Israel and Palestine on Campus


Susannah Heschel, the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg for a conversation about one of the most high-intensity issues there is -- Israel-Palestine on college campuses. This episode is the second in an ongoing mini-series of podcasts exploring conversations about Israel-Palestine in American-Jewish life. 

[1] Learn more about Susannah Heschel via this link.

[2] For the previous episode in this mini-series, see Episode 466: Israel-Palestine in American-Jewish Discourse.

[2] For Heschel’s appearance (with Tarek El-Ariss, a colleague at Dartmouth College) on ShavuotLIVE a couple years back, entitled “Arabs and Jews as Freudian Subjects,” check out this video.

[3] For a piece exploring the dialogue series organized by Dartmouth’s Jewish Studies and Middle East Studies programs, click here.

[4] To learn more about the situation Heschel referenced at the University of Washington, involving Liora Halperin, see this 2022 piece in JTA entitled “Donor yanks Israel Studies endowment at U of Washington over professor’s Israel criticism.”

[5] For “On Prayer,” a classic essay by Abraham Joshua Heschel (Susannah Heschel’s father) that she references in this podcast, click here.

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