Jewish History Soundbites Podcast
1) Come on and Ride the Train: The Kastner Story Part VI
The Satmar Rav, Rav Yoel Teitelbaum, was rescued on the Kastner train. How did this great leader of Hungarian Orthodoxy and chassidic community, who was well known for his vocal opposition to Zionism,...Show More
2) Come on and Ride the Train: The Kastner Story Part V
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 diverse was the representation of the various fact...Show More
3) Come on and Ride the Train: The Kastner Story Part IV
What were the actual negotiations between Kastner and other Jewish rescue leaders and Eichmann and the SS? How were the negotiations initiated and how did they develop? When did they take place? Who w...Show More
4) Come on and Ride the Train: The Kastner Story Part III
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 submitted a detailed and accurate report of the hor...Show More
5) Come on and Ride the Train: The Kastner Story Part II
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 Hungarian Jewry prior to the Nazi invasion in March ...Show More
6) Come on and Ride the Train: The Kastner Story Part I
NEW SERIES ON JEWISH HISTORY SOUNDBITES On June 30, 1944, a train departed Budapest, Hungary, carrying 1,684 Jews as its passengers. This occurred during the peak of the Nazi deportations of Hungarian...Show More
7) Self-hating Jews in Jewish History
Unfortunately the phenomenon of isolated instances of Jews consumed with self hatred, while projecting antisemitic stereotypes on their brethren is nothing new. It has existed in one form or another t...Show More
8) Marriage Age in Jewish History
During the 18th & first half of the 19th centuries, many members of the financial and rabbinical elite in Jewish Eastern Europe engaged in the practice of marrying off their children at a very young a...Show More
9) RERELEASE: Tales of Sukkos & Simchas Torah (update)
In honor of the upcoming Sukkos & Simchas Torah holidays, here's an updated version of an old episode of Jewish History Soundbites, containing entertaining historical tales & tidbits from Jewish histo...Show More
10) Tribute to Rav Dovid Kamenetsky
Torah scholar, author of many acclaimed seforim on the Torah of the Vilna Gaon and others, historian and author of the definitive work on Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, are just a few of the many accompli...Show More