This Week in Jewish History
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4:30
TWJH Rashi (4:30)
Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitshak) was a great 11th century commentator on the Torah. This brief video outlines his major scholarly contribution within historical context.
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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5:39
The Septuagint (5:39)
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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8:19
Chanukah, and How to Spell It (8:19)
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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5:24
Irving Berlin (5:24)
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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6:59
The Chofetz Chaim (6:59)
In this segment on Jewish history, Dr. Henry Abramson provides a glimpse into the life and works of Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan. The “Chofetz Chaim”’s famous work on the laws of gossip and slander, as well as his authoritative modern commentary on the Code of Jewish law have a lasting impact on the Jewish world today.
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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7:51
The Book Burning of 1240 (7:51)
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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6:37
Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin (6:37)
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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5:28
What is Jerusalem Day? (5:28)
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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6:00
Rabbi Moshe Isserles (The Rema) (6:00)
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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9:28
Sarah Schenirer - Championing Womens Education (9:28)
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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5:01
Dr. Bernard Lander (5:01)
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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5:14
The Mendel Beilis Trial (5:14)
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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7:33
Purimfest 1946 (7:33)
Historian Dr. Henry Abramson shows us the uncanny connection between the hanging of Haman's ten sons on Purim and the hanging of those convicted in the Nuremberg Trials.
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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6:26
Disputations (6:26)
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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3:39
Poland (3:39)
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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5:13
Fourth Lateran Council (5:13)
The Fourth Lateran Council, which met in 1215 at the behest of Pope Innocent III, issued several pieces of Church legislation with dire implications for Jews. The doctrine of transubstantiation was confirmed, leading to a new element in antisemitic canards: accusations that Jews “desecrated the host.”.
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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5:40
Sadat (5:40)
In November of 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat flew to Israel to address the Knesset. His meeting with his former enemy Prime Minister Menachem Begin ultimately resulted in the sometimes strained but nevertheless enduring Israel-Egypt peace accord, but his unpopularity with hardline Egyptians, opposed to making peace with Israel, resulted in his assassination in 1981.
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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4:53
Jabotinsky (4:53)
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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Captain Alfred Dreyfus (5:09)
Date: October 9, 1859, birthday of Alfred Dreyfus Wrongly accused of espionage, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was sentenced to Devil's Island on the basis of remarkably tenuous evidence. Many critics, including the famous writer Emile Zola, argued that Dreyfus was unfairly charged simply because he was a Jew in the French army
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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3:32
Rembrandt (3:32)
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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10:23
Jewish Children Forced into the Tsar's Army (10:23)
Date: August 26, 1856 Reeling from the humiliating defeat of the Crimean War, the Russian Empire decides its policy of forcibly conscripting Jewish boys into military service is counterproductive, and finally abandons the cruel decades-old policy of taking underage children into thirty-one years of military training and service.
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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7:46
Jews, Lepers and the Black Death (7:46)
Date: August 21, 1321 (August 21, 1321) The summer of 1321 was plagued with rumors that Jews had entered into a conspiracy with lepers (some versions also included Muslims) to poison the wells of Europe, resulting in mass hysteria and mob violence
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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Nathan the Wise (4:35)
Date: August 11, 1778 (August 11, 1778) In August of 1778, the non-Jewish writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote to his brother of a new literary project designed to further tolerance of Jews in German society. The result was Nathan the Wise, a sensation that was initially banned by the Church and heavily criticized by antisemites of the day.
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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5:51
The Pale of Settlement (5:51)
Date: August 5, 1772 (6 Av, 5532) Officially banned in 1479, no Jews lived in the Russian Empire until Tsarina Catherine II conquered a major portion of Polish territory, instantly inheriting the largest single concentration of Jews in the world
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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Shabbetai Tsvi: False Messiah of the 17th Century (7:07)
Date: August 1, 1626 (9 Av, 5386) Devastated and demoralized after the Khmelnytskyi Rebellion in the 17th century, Jews around Europe were astounded to hear that a young Kabbalist named Shabbetai Tsvi had proclaimed himself the long-awaited Messiah.
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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4:06
The Jews' Oath vs. Lord Rothschild (4:06)
Date: July 23, 1858 (12 Av, 5618) In 1847, the citizens of London elected its first Jew, Lionel de Rothschild, to the House of Commons. Rothschild, however, refused to take the Christian oath required of all members, and resigned without taking his seat in Parliament
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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Janusz Korczak: Hero to Children in the Warsaw Ghetto (3:39)
Date: July 22, 1878 (21 Tammuz, 5638) Beloved for his children's stories, Henryk Goldszmidt wrote under the pen name Janusz Korczak. A lifelong advocate for children's rights, he ran an orphanage in Warsaw that was world-famous for his innovative pedagogic techniques
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (5:14)
Date: June 23, 1858 (11 Tammuz, 5618) In the summer of 1858, 6-year old Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, was forcibly taken from his home by Italian police acting at the behest of the Inquisition
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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The Pogroms of 1881-1884 (6:22)
Date: July 29, 1881 (3 Av, 5641) With the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, the Jews of the Russian Empire were assaulted by a massive wave of attacks called "pogroms" that devastated hundreds of villages
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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10:40
The Palestine Mandate (10:40)
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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6:03
Jews and the First Crusade (6:03)
Date: July 1099 (Tammuz 4859).
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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3:50
The Jewish Badge (3:50)
The design of the Jewish badge changed through the centuries but the purpose didn’t. Dr. Henry Abramson illustrates various symbols that Jews have been required to wear in order to identify Jews and keep them separate from Christians.
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)