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Wise Man of Hungary: Rav Yehuda Aszod
Episode 326
Rav Yehuda Aszod (1796-1866) was one of the architects of the emerging Hungarian Orthodoxy of the 19th century. A student of the Maharam Banet, he we…
4 years, 6 months ago
A Dazzling Light: The Life & Impact of Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
Episode 325
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan (1934-1983) was a dazzling light on the Jewish history scene of the 20th century. With family origins in Thessaloniki, Greece, he …
4 years, 6 months ago
The Czars & The Jews Part I
Episode 324
Following the partitions of Poland in the last quarter of the 18th century, the largest Jewish community in the world found themselves under the rule…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Roar of the Lion: The Life of Rav Leib Malin Part I
Episode 323
Prewar student of Rav Yerucham Levovitz and the Brisker Rov, leader during the Mir Yeshiva’s wartime escape to Shanghai, and postwar builder of Bais …
4 years, 7 months ago
The Emergence of a Leader: The Life of the Chazon Ish Part III
Episode 322
In part 3 of the story of Rav Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (1878-1953), the Chazon Ish, his path is traced from his relative obscurity to his emergence a…
4 years, 7 months ago
Iron Yid: The Story of Zishe Breitbart
Episode 321
Zishe or Siegmund Breitbart (1893-1925) was a circus strongman, and a Jewish folk hero of his day. Having grown up in an observant home in Strykov in…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Haflaah: The Life & Legacy of Rav Pinchas Horowitz
Episode 320
Rav Pinchas Horowitz (1731-1805), known by his most enduring literary work ‘the Hafla’ah’, was unique in the respect that the varied aspects of his l…
4 years, 7 months ago
Come on and Ride the Train: Railroads & Jews
Episode 319
The development of the railroad and the laying of rail track across the Russian Empire in the late 19th century, had a tremendous impact on tradition…
4 years, 7 months ago
Chabad & Zionism Part I: The Rashab
Episode 318
Rav Sholom Dovber Schneerson (1860-1920), better known as the Rashab, as the fifth Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, was one of the leaders of Russian Jewry…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Legacy of the Vilna Gaon
Episode 317
The Vilna Gaon, or the Gra, or Hagaon Hachassid, were just several of the titles by which Rav Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797) was known during …
4 years, 8 months ago