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Creating an institutional space for the Critical Study of Zionism: A Conversation with Emmaia Gelman and Christine Hong
Today we speak with Emmaia Gelman and Christine Hong, two of the founders of the new Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. They tell us what motivated them and others to take up this project to create a space where the critical study of Zionism could take place in conversation with many other fields. We hear why the organizers wish to separate critical Zionist studies from conventional Jewish Studies as practiced in the academy, and locate it in the context of radical ethnic studies.
Emmaia Gelman is guest faculty in Social Sciences at Sarah Lawrence College and the founding Director…
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