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Back to Search[RERELEASE] The 1837 Tzfas Earthquake (replay)
Episode 477
Reposted with a new introduction, this episode will serve as a temporary break from the ongoing series on the Kastner train.
On January 1, 1837, a de…
6 months, 1 week ago
Come on and Ride the Train: The Kastner Story Part VII
Episode 476
Following the war’s end in 1945, the controversy surrounding Kastner’s wartime activities began to emerge. Some pointed to the fact that he rescued a…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Come on and Ride the Train: The Kastner Story Part VI
Episode 475
The Satmar Rav, Rav Yoel Teitelbaum, was rescued on the Kastner train. How did this great leader of Hungarian Orthodoxy and chassidic community, who …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Come on and Ride the Train: The Kastner Story Part V
Episode 474
Who ultimately got rescued on the Kastner train? How was the list assembled? What were the SS criteria for those Jews to be included on the list? How…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Come on and Ride the Train: The Kastner Story Part IV
Episode 473
What were the actual negotiations between Kastner and other Jewish rescue leaders and Eichmann and the SS? How were the negotiations initiated and ho…
7 months ago
Come on and Ride the Train: The Kastner Story Part III
Episode 472
On April 7, 1944 two Slovakian Jews named Rudolf Vrba & Alfred Wetzler made a daring escape from Auschwitz and made their way back to Slovakia. They …
7 months, 1 week ago
Come on and Ride the Train: The Kastner Story Part II
Episode 471
What did Hungarian Jewry look like on the eve of World War II? What was its size, religious composition and communal organization? What happened to H…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Come on and Ride the Train: The Kastner Story Part I
Episode 470
NEW SERIES ON JEWISH HISTORY SOUNDBITES
On June 30, 1944, a train departed Budapest, Hungary, carrying 1,684 Jews as its passengers. This occurred du…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Self-hating Jews in Jewish History
Episode 469
Unfortunately the phenomenon of isolated instances of Jews consumed with self hatred, while projecting antisemitic stereotypes on their brethren is n…
9 months ago
Marriage Age in Jewish History
Episode 468
During the 18th & first half of the 19th centuries, many members of the financial and rabbinical elite in Jewish Eastern Europe engaged in the practi…
9 months, 1 week ago