Episode Details

In 1948, Palestine saw Jewish refugees too

Dr. Nurit Cohen Levinovsky, a historian and author of Jewish Refugees During the War of Independence, tells the story of the tens of thousands of Israeli Jews who became refugees during the War of Independence.

How the Bible became holy

Michael Satlow, a religious and Judaic studies professor at Brown University (US) and author of How the Bible Became Holy, sheds some light on the selection and canonization processes over the centuries that brought the Bible to the special status it holds today.

Music:

Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know
Muse - Invincible
David Bowie - China Girl