In today’s episode of the TPPI Podcast, Gabriel Noah Brahm talks with scholar and writer Abe Silberstein. Their podcast follows a webinar about the role of critical theory in the response within higher education to the atrocities of October 7. During the webinar, which also featured Cary Nelson and Manuela Consonni, Silberstein had presented a working paper about Frantz Fanon. The podcast conversation with Silberstein and Brahm is available as a video or in audio-only form. A podcast conversation with Cary Nelson is also available here.
Abe Silberstein is a writer and critic based in New York. His essays have appeared in the New York Times, Ha’aretz, The Forward, Tel Aviv Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement (UK), Dissent, London Review of Books, War on the Rocks, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Israel Policy Exchange. He manages English-language communications for a non-governmental organization committed to building a shared society of Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Gabriel Noah Brahm (aka Gavriel Ben-Zion Abramovich) is Professor of English and World Literature at Northern Michigan University, Founding Director of Michigan’s Center for Academic and Intellectual Freedom (CAIF), and currently serves as the Hochberg Family Library Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) in Miami Beach, Florida. Dr. Brahm has been appointed as a visiting scholar at the University of Haifa’s Herzl Institute for the Study of Zionism, the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University, the Program in Philosophy and Religions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Yad Vashem (World Holocaust Remembrance Center). He is co-editor (with Cary Nelson) of The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel, and a frequent contributor to such leading journals of social theory and political commentary as Telos, Fathom, The American Mind, Society, and Perspectives on Political Science. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @Brahmski.
