Portrait of the father of a nation

Published: Feb. 6, 2015, 2:04 p.m.

Portrait of the father of a nation

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Prof. Anita Shapira, one of Israel's most eminent historians of Zionism, discusses her newly published biography of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding prime minister, with host Gilad Halpern.

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Hebrew literature and the origins of Israeli malaise

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Yigal Schwarz, professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, discusses his latest book,\xa0The Zionist Paradox: Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity, which analyzes Israel's unique conceptualization of place through five canonical literary works.