In our programme format “WI-Talk” we publish interviews and conversations on topics relevant to Jewish life in Germany.
These may have a topical connection – WI-Talks with specialist politicians about particular decisions in the Bundestag – or be less tied to the news, such as introductions to Jewish organisations in Germany.
The wider spectrum of our WI-Talk topics is: Jewish religion, democracy, security policy, the right to demonstrate, education policy, extremism, foreign and Middle East policy in the context of its effects in Germany, integration and the values of the Basic Law. In the end it is always about what contributes to preserving a free and democratic society.
In an age of disinformation in particular, we try to make WI-Talk a place of reliable information and thus to make our contribution to the free and democratic basic order from a Jewish-German perspective.
The WI-Talks are hosted by our presenters or take the form of a dialogue between our chair Elio Adler and a guest.
All episodes

WI-Talk: Tilman Tarach: From the Middle Ages to the TAZ. How anti-Jewish images have survived the centuries
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WI-Talk: Tuvia Tenenbom: Are Jewish voices being cancelled? On the price of dialogue
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WI-Talk: From Islamist to bridge-builder. A former extremist explains the West’s blind spots
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WI-Talk: Shared values – shared threats. What Jews and Kurds in Germany have in common
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WI-Talk: Political Islam in Germany. How Islamists Threaten Democracy and Jewish Life
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WI-Talk: The end of the mullah regime? On the current situation in Iran
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WI-Talk: Iran at Heart. A Journalist Between Personal Involvement and Political Analysis
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Blitz-WI-Talk: Severin Kistner: How do you deal with swastikas on your own election poster?
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WI-Talk: Between aspiration and reality. Achievements, limits and the political environment of the fight against antisemitism
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WI-Talk: Israel in the German media mirror. On distorted perceptions, misunderstandings and dangerous narratives
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WI-Talk: Jew-hatred in German schools. Book presentation: “Sechs Millionen, wer bietet mehr?”
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WI-Talk: Turkish right-wing extremism in Germany. Grey Wolves and the cross-front of Jew-hatred
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WI-Talk: The mullahs, Iran and the struggle for freedom. A conversation with Jamshid Sharmahd’s daughter
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WI-Talk: The radical left and Islamism. The anti-Western coalition in the centres of scholarship
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WI-Talk: Do not forget the hostages. A conversation with the father of Itay Chen
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WI-Talk: (Pre)terrorist organisation Masar Badil. Research in Germany’s anti-Israel scene
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WI-Talk: Sarah Maria Sander: Fighting fake news in the Middle East conflict
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WI-Talk: Profs against Antisemitism. What is the situation at the Freie Universität? What has changed, what needs to be done
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WI-Talk: Introducing the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg
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WI-Talk: Introducing: EDA – Magazine. Young, Jewish, sexy! The new magazine of the JSUD
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WI-Talk: Naming it is only half the battle. Using the IHRA definition in law and politics against antisemitism
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WI-Talk: Against state-funded hatred of Jews in the cultural sector
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WI-Talk: 4th anniversary of the right-wing extremist Halle attack
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WI-Talk: The Basic Law and what we can learn from the American way of life
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WI-Talk: On the way to Sonneberg? Right-wing extremist tendencies & resistance
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WI-Talk: Middle East conflict 2.0 – anti-Israel dynamics on social media
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WI-Talk: Yom ha’atzmaut – 75 years of Israel. The significance of Israel for German Jews
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WI-Talk: living diversity! Founding of the Jewish Liberal-Egalitarian Association (JLEV)
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WI-Talk: Al-Quds Day: antisemitic holiday on German streets – Part 1: Background
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WI-Talk: Fact or framing? Images of Israel in the German-language media
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WI-Talk: Kassel, art and crisis. A conversation on the final report on documenta 15
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WI-Talk: Recognition of the genocide against the Êzîdî by the Bundestag
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WI-Talk: Uncovered: the juvenile right-wing terrorists of the „Totenwaffen“
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WI-Talk: The inaugural interview with Volker Beck, President of the Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft
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WI-Talk with Hillel Neuer (UN Watch) on German UN voting behaviour with regard to Israel
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WI-Talk with Pablo Hagemeyer on “Disinformation: psychological causes and political effect”
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WI-Talk: Presentation of the Janusz Korczak Haus – Berlin / J-ArtEck
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WI-Talk: Presentation of the Jüdische Studierendenunion Deutschland – JSUD
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WI-Talk with Dr Barbara Slowik, Police President of the State of Berlin
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