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Aleksander the Great Chassidic Dynasty
Episode 372
Based in the Lodz suburb of Aleksandrow, the Aleksander chassidic dynasty was one of the largest and most prominent in prewar Poland. Established as a branch of Vorka-Peshischa in the mid 19th centur…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Holy Crown in Brownsville: The Life & Times of Rav Moshe Rosen
Episode 371
Rav Moshe Rosen - the Nezer Hakodesh (c.1870-1957) was an early leader of American orthodoxy. Having served as a communal rabbi in Lithuania for three decades, he was the one who discovered the Chazo…
Published on 3 years ago
Early Secularization in Jewish Europe
Episode 370
The expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the 15th century was a period of great upheaval, as a Spanish-Portuguese diaspora formed in Western Europe and the Mediterranean bas…
Published on 3 years ago
Jerusalem Odyssey: Rav Yaakov Moshe Charlap
Episode 369
Rav Yaakov Moshe Charlap (1882-1951) was an important rabbinical leader in Yerushalayim during the first half of the 20th century. A product of the Old Yishuv, he was a student of Rav Yehoshua Leib D…
Published on 3 years ago
The US & The Holocaust: A Review
Episode 368
The story of the confrontation of the US and the Holocaust is done well in the recently produced Ken Burns documentary ‘The US & the Holocaust’. It purports to cover the entirety of the Holocaust fro…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Founder of a Dynasty: The Bais Halevi
Episode 367
Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik - the Bais Halevi (1820-1892) was the founder of the Soloveitchik/Brisk dynasty. Following his studies in Volozhin and a short stint as a rosh yeshiva in Minsk, he was appo…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Jews, Sports & Identity
Episode 366
Jews and sports is an exploration of Jewish identity and integration in the modern world. This was expressed as Jews became fans of sports teams, with the most famous baseball fan in history being an…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Organizing Orthodoxy: The Story of the Agudath Harabonim Part I
Episode 365
The Agudath Harabonim of the US & Canada was founded in 1902 with the goals of strengthening traditional Jewish observance in the country. Its membership was primarily composed of Eastern European im…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Our Grandfathers Came to this Land
Episode 364
The Great Immigration was the population movement of millions of Jews primarily from Eastern Europe to the United States and other countries over the course of a half century between 1875-1924. Altho…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Feivels Going West: Jews in the Wild West
Episode 363
The German Jewish immigration of the mid 19th century caused a demographic explosion of the American Jewish community from a mere 5,000 in 1830 to approximately 250,000 in 1880. Economic opportunity,…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago