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Gershom Gorenberg

Gershom Gorenberg

Gershom Gorenberg is an Israeli historian and journalist. His latest book is ‘War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East.’

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Gershom Gorenberg is an iconoclastic Israeli journalist and historian. His latest book is ‘War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East.’ He is a contributing writer for The Atlantic, and has lectured world-wide at leading universities and for organizations seeking a nuanced view of politics, Mideast affairs and religion.


Programs

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Israel and the War in Gaza: What Went Wrong. What Must Go Right.
Leading Israeli historian historian and journalist Gershom Gorenberg gives the overview you need: What led to the Gaza-Israel war, why Israel was taken by surprise, how Israeli society showed remarkable strength, and why the war must lead to a new push for peace and a two-state outcome.
2
Fear and Hope: The Struggle for Israel's Democracy
Even before war in Gaza, Israel faced an unprecedented internal struggle, with the country's democracy at stake. Gershom Gorenberg explains what's behind the government's bid to change the political system - and why Israel's remarkable pro-democracy protest movement held the country together when war came.
3
The Secret War against the Nazis for the Middle East
At the midpoint of World War II, an Axis army under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was on the brink of conquering the Middle East. Drawing on his latest book, War of Shadows, historian Gershom Gorenberg will reveal the espionage affair that led to the British victory against Rommel—turning the tide of war, preventing mass murder of the Jews of the Middle East and making the birth of Israel possible.
4
The Forgotten Holocaust: The Nazis in the Middle East
Memory of the Nazi genocide places it firmly in Europe. Yet in 1942, Jews in Libya were trucked to a concentration camp, and Germany's most famous general, Erwin Rommel, was on the verge of bringing the SS to Cairo and Tel Aviv. Only a last-minute espionage triumph saved the Jews of the Middle East from mass murder.
5
About that Sacrifice: Actually Abraham Said No to God
In the Book of Genesis, Abraham pleads with God not to destroy Sodom - yet seems to remain silent when told to sacrifice his own son. Taking a close look at the text together will help us to understand two approaches to religion - one that evades modern uncertainty by demanding blind obedience to authority, and one that stresses the moral responsibility involved in interpreting sacred texts.
Genres
  • Holocaust
  • Israel
  • Middle East
  • Politics
  • Torah / Tanach / Text

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Books
War of Shadows
War of Shadows
Codebreakers, Spies, and th...
2021
Hachette Book Group
The Unmaking of Israel
The Unmaking of Israel
2011
Harper
The Accidental Empire
The Accidental Empire
Israel and the Birth of the...
2007
Times Books
The End of Days
The End of Days
Fundamentalism and the Stru...
2002
Oxford University Press
Articles
The Atlantic 12 September, 2024:
Netanyahu’s Other War: Israel's constitutional crisis continues
The New Republic 8 November, 2023:
Here’s the Horror Hamas Left in Its Wake at One Kibbutz
New York Times 3 August, 2023:
Israel's democracy movement is built on a contradiction. That's an achievement.
New Lines Magazine 23 August, 2022:
The Legend of the Nazi Spies in Cairo - and the Real Story
The Daily Beast 17 June, 2013:
I Don't Text on Shabbas
Videos
The Struggle for the Temple Mount
Keynote Address: Teach-In on Israel
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