Shmuel Rosner and Hizky Shoham discuss Hizky’s newest book and the differences and similarities of how Israel celebrates Passover and its independence day.
Hizky Shoham is a cultural historian of Israel and Zionism. He is a research fellow in the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and a lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
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