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Naming Catastrophe: Holocaust, Shoah or Churban (Destruction)
Episode 443
The Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler carried out the extermination of nearly six million Jews, primarily between the years 1939-1945. How is the horrible tragedy referred to? Over the years various nam…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Sephardic Purity
Episode 442
With the expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula in the last decade of the 15th century, the Spanish Jewish diaspora spread across the world. Jews from Spain were called Sephardim, and many of them sett…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Rav Shalom Sharabi & the Beit-El Kabbalist Yeshiva
Episode 441
In the center of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem stands the Beit-El Yeshiva. Established nearly three centuries ago, with the lofty goal of exclusively engaging in the study of Jewish…
Published on 8 months ago
After the Eichmann Trial
Episode 440
The Jewish People, Israeli society and the world at large confronted the Holocaust in the years following the Eichmann trial. Survivors began submitting testimony and writing their memoirs, historian…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Witnesses at the Eichmann Trial
Episode 439
The prosecutor at the Eichmann trial, Gideon Hausner, opened the trial with a speech to history. Evoking the memory of the Holocaust victims, and referring to them as the true accusers of Adolf Eichm…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Eichmann Trial
Episode 438
The trial for former SS officer Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Final Solution, which took place in Jerusalem between April – August 1961, wasn’t merely a trial for one individual and hi…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Execution of Adolf Eichmann
Episode 437
With the recent passing of Shalom Nagar, the former prison guard who was the executioner of Adolf Eichmann in 1962, we examine the story of the events leading up to and including his execution. While…
Published on 9 months ago
Jewish History Tourbites Presents - Hidden Among the Tombstones: A Walk through the Warsaw Jewish Cemetery
Episode 436
As the largest Jewish community in prewar Europe, Warsaw, Poland is a prime destination on many European Jewish history tours. One of the unique elements of a visit to Jewish Warsaw is a walk through…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
Meet the Metz: The Jews of Metz
Episode 435
Metz, France was host to one of the most prominent Jewish communities in the world at one point in history. An ancient Jewish community, it experienced a flourishing during medieval times before the …
Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago
The Life & Times of Rav Yaakov Ettlinger the Aruch Lener
Episode 434
Germany Jewry of the 19th century was going through a period of transition. Emancipation was a struggle which was incrementally achieved, and rampant secularization and integration into German societ…
Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago