Sir Moses Montefiore: a world Jewish leader before such even existed

Published: Nov. 6, 2014, 10:51 a.m.

On our program today, our guests are:\n\n

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  • Lia Tarachansky, director of the film\xa0On the Side of the Road\xa0that tackles the way the Nakba \u2013 the heritage of the Palestinian defeat in 1948 \u2013 is perceived in Israeli society today.
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  • Prof. Motti Regev, a cultural sociologist and head of the Department of Literature, Language and the Arts\xa0at the Open University, talks to us about his new book\xa0Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity\xa0and about the historical event of Pop-Rock music, in Israel and elsewhere.
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  • Abigail Green, tutor and fellow in history at Brasenose College, Oxford, talks to us about Sir Moses Montefiore \u2013 the great Italian-British-Jewish philanthropist and virtually the first-ever world Jewish leader.
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