Tamar Katriel's study of dialogic moments is an impressive and ambitious tour de force about communication and culture in Israel during the twentieth century. It is insightful, well written, and draws sustained attention to ways of speaking and speech occasions as formative of national, cultural, and social lives. The book will be of keen interest to many readers including students ... Read moreof anthropology, communication, Israeli and Jewish studies, and sociolinguistics, among others." - Donal Carbaugh, University of Massachusetts; "Tamar Katriel is a brilliant scholar, and Dialogic Moments is an important work. It is consistent with the superlative quality of her earlier books on contemporary Israeli culture. Here too, Katriel takes an urgent topic, theorizes it with exceptional precision, tackies it with the best that ethnographic research can offer, and writes with clarity and passion. The book is tightly focused and nicely stuctured into three parts, one for each mode of communication that she examines - soul talks, straight talk, and talk radio." - Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University, author of Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage Show Less