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The Times They are a Changin': The Illustrious Roots of Rabbi Joseph B Soloveitchik
Episode 121
Though Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik (1879-1941) and his wife Pesha Feinstein (1880-1967) achieved renown as parents of Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, they led quite interesting lives on their own merit as…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
Drama In The Levant: The Story Of The Damascus Blood Libel
Episode 120
A landmark event in Jewish History of the 19th Century was the infamous Damascus Blood Libel of 1840. What seemed to be part of the distant past of the medieval era, was revived in a modern day consp…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
While Six Million Perished: FDR, Stephen Wise & American Jewry
Episode 119
For the American Jewish community, President Roosevelt seemed almost Messianic. The New Deal was worshiped as the wave of the future, American Jews were overwhelmingly liberal - even Socialist - Demo…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
The History of Telz Part II: From a Yeshiva...To a Movement
Episode 118
The interwar period saw a Golden Age for the Telz Yeshiva in Lithuania. Under the strong leadership of Rabbi Yosef Leib Bloch (1860-1930), the Yeshiva grew and spawned an entire empire of educational…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
Aristocrats of Mussar: Tales from Kelm Part I
Episode 117
One of the most unique educational methodologies of character perfection in recent history, was the Talmud Torah of Kelm. With it's emphasis on orderliness, clarity and an intense pursuit towards per…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
The Case For A Mamzer: Rav Shlomo Goren and the Langer Controversy
Episode 116
In the high strung divide between the religious and secular in the State of Israel, few stories express the point of conflict more than the "brother & sister" saga of the Langer children. Seemingly t…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
Zionists, Messianists or Immigrants? The Talmidei Hagra & The Controversy of the Kol Hator
Episode 115
In 1947 a book was published in Jerusalem bearing the title "Kol Hator". It ascribed Messianic overtones to the immigration of a group of students of the Vilna Goan nearly two centuries earlier, with…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
A Kindled Flame: The Life of Rav Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg Part I
Episode 114
Please Support the work of Jewish History Soundbites by rating us and writing a review for us on Apple Podcasts. Thank You!!! One of the most multi faceted Jewish personalities of the last century wa…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
World War I & The Jews Part IV: From Devastation to Rehabilitation
Episode 113
The Bolshevik Revolution and it's aftermath wreaked havoc on the Jewish communities - both exiled and established - across the great expanse of the former Russian Empire. The Russian Civil War destro…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
Rudolf's Rescue Scheme: Kastner & The Attempts To Save Hungarian Jewry
Episode 112
Asara B'Teves is known in Israel also as "Yom Hakadish Haklali", and is a day which the victims of the Holocaust are commemorated with the recital of Kaddish. When focusing on the attempted rescue ef…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago