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(To book the Provence trip with Rabbi Tatz & Rabbi Hersh - email giana.elav@gmail.com) Jewish leadership found itself in a crisis post-1881, affecting not only their options but their identity. In response, Rabbis turned to the international community for help, especially from  non-Jewish politicians. This period was exacerbated by the publication of the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the notorious Kishinev pogrom of 1903, which was followed by the abortive 1905 Revolution. As a conclusion, the podcast also defines the historical context of Jewish suffering and the cycle of Jewish history.   Chapters 00:00 Understanding Jewish Suffering Through History 02:54 The Impact of the May Laws and Pogroms 05:53 The Shift in Jewish Identity and Response 09:05 The Role of Rabbinic Leadership During Crisis 12:08 International Responses to Jewish Persecution 15:00 The Kovner Circle and Smuggling Information 18:04 The Aftermath of Pogroms and Changing Policies 20:46 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Its Legacy 27:53 The Systematic Transition to Violence 30:47 The Rise of Revolutionaries and the 1905 Uprising 36:32 Understanding Jewish Suffering Through History 39:27 Insights on Divine Purpose and Jewish Existence 51:10 The Cycle of Jewish History and Its Lessons

Dr. Grant Harward and Dr. Luke Truxal join me to continue this talk about the Jassy-Kishinev raids. Other episodes that are mentioned or connected to this one include: 1943 episode 11: Uniting Against the Reich with Dr. Luke Truxal 1943 Episode 44: Operation Tidal Wave with Dr. Luke Truxal 1943 Episode 79: Schweinfurt, Regensburg, and Operation Starkey: Inflated Numbers, Wrong Conclusions, and False Confidence with Dr. Luke Truxal 1943 Episode 80: The Luftwaffe's Aerial Defense Over Germany with Dr. Rich Muller 1943 Episode 82: Black Week -- October 1943: A Low Point and a Turning Point for the Strategic Bombing Campaign in Europe with Dr. John Curatola 1943 Episode 83: Fighters Over Europe: Attritional Warfare and the Americanization of the Air War in 1943 with Dr. Graham Cross 1943 Episode 88: The Kuban Bridgehead and Romania in WWII with Dr. Grant Harward 1944 Episode 6: "Big Week" -- February 1944: The US Army Air Force as a Tool of War with Dr. John Curatola Links Uniting Against the Reich: The American Air War in Europe by Dr. Luke Truxal (⁠Amazon⁠) Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust by Dr. Grant Harward (⁠Amazon⁠) Romania 1944: The Turning of Arms Against Nazi Germany by Dr. Grant Harward, Illustrated by Johnny Shumate (⁠Amazon⁠) Mother of Tanks website (⁠http://www.motheroftanks.com/podcast/⁠)   Bonus Content (⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/motheroftanks⁠)

In this first of two parts, Dr. Grant Harward and Dr. Luke Truxal join me to talk about the April / May 1944 raids on Romania, in particular the First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive. Other episodes that are mentioned or connected to this one include: 1943 episode 11: Uniting Against the Reich with Dr. Luke Truxal 1943 Episode 44: Operation Tidal Wave with Dr. Luke Truxal 1943 Episode 79: Schweinfurt, Regensburg, and Operation Starkey: Inflated Numbers, Wrong Conclusions, and False Confidence with Dr. Luke Truxal 1943 Episode 80: The Luftwaffe's Aerial Defense Over Germany with Dr. Rich Muller 1943 Episode 82: Black Week -- October 1943: A Low Point and a Turning Point for the Strategic Bombing Campaign in Europe with Dr. John Curatola 1943 Episode 83: Fighters Over Europe: Attritional Warfare and the Americanization of the Air War in 1943 with Dr. Graham Cross 1943 Episode 88: The Kuban Bridgehead and Romania in WWII with Dr. Grant Harward 1944 Episode 6: "Big Week" -- February 1944: The US Army Air Force as a Tool of War with Dr. John Curatola Links Uniting Against the Reich: The American Air War in Europe by Dr. Luke Truxal (Amazon) Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust by Dr. Grant Harward (Amazon) Romania 1944: The Turning of Arms Against Nazi Germany by Dr. Grant Harward, Illustrated by Johnny Shumate (Amazon) Mother of Tanks website (http://www.motheroftanks.com/podcast/)   Bonus Content (https://www.patreon.com/c/motheroftanks)

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How many of you have seen the play or the movie Golda's Balcony?  If you have, you know about that powerful moment, early in her career for Israel, she is Golda Meyerson at the time, it is January, 1948, it is three years after the Shoah, it is five months before Israel's independence would be declared and the war for independence would start, and Golda is with American Jews, at the General Assembly of Jewish Federations, held in Chicago on January 21.  Her mission was to inspire American Jews to support the incipient Jewish state and the Jewish army in the war for its very existence.  She was supposed to raise $25 million.  She ended up raising $50 million.  Make no mistake.  This is our Golda moment.  Golda's secret sauce contained three ingredients.  They apply to us with equal force. First, American Jews in 1948 learned of horrors and atrocities, murder and death, that befell innocent Jews of Europe.  Slaughter.  It made American Jews angry, sick to their stomach, nauseous, worried, grief-stricken, and determined to fight back. Check.  American Jews in 2023 woke up last Shabbat morning, and every day and every sleepless night, through our insomnia, through the pits in our stomachs, we read stories that claim us, stories of horrors and atrocities, murder and death, that befell innocent Jews in the towns and villages near Gaza.  By the way, none of these areas were settlements.  None of these areas could in any remote way be called occupied lands.  None of these areas carry moral complexity.  These were indisputably and properly Jewish communities whose Jews, celebrating Simchat Torah, celebrating a peaceful music festival were slaughtered precisely because they are Jews living in Israel. There was a second secret sauce to Golda's success:  American Jews in 1948 knew that if Jews were to make good on their promise of Never Again, we would have to create, sustain, and defend the State of Israel. Europe was a killing field for Jews. Part of the infinite tragedy of the Simchat Torah massacre was that Israel also became a killing field for Jews; and that peaceful Kibbutzim and villages were soaked through with Jewish blood.  The Kishinev pogrom came to Israel.  It was not supposed to be that way. Hatred of the Jewish people continues in these shores.  Elias and Lorena are in New York, with Mikey at Columbia for a freshmen parents' weekend.  But in our Talmud conversation yesterday, Elias shared that on Thursday night Mikey called him and Lorena and was very rattled.  New York, and Columbia, have a significant Jewish population. You would think in the week that Hamas had committed these atrocities, Columbia would be a safe space where Jewish students could protest.  Two hundred Jewish students showed up.  But there was a counter protest of 700 Palestinian students and sympathizers.  Campus police were so concerned about the safety of Jewish students at Columbia that they were whisked away to the Kraft Hillel Building, where the 200 students could continue their protest, in private, behind locked doors. What? How could it be? How could it be that 700 people at Columbia University, or the Harvard students that signed that odious statement, would walk with Hamas?  The American Jews to whom Golda spoke knew what we now must also know: that evil is real, hatred is real, and if never again was to be real, it would take a partnership between Israeli Jews and American Jews.  Israeli Jews, then and now, are on the front lines.  What do we do to help? Which leads to the third ingredient of Golda's secret sauce: we are not helpless and we are not hopeless.  We have agency and we have power.  That's what those American Jews on January 21, 1948 understood when Golda raised 50 million dollars. David Ben Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister, called Golda Meir the “Jewish woman who got the money which made the state possible.” Golda's generation in America helped create the state.  Our generation in America now can help sustain the state. 

I can't. I just can't. At Kibbutz Kfar Aza, they have found the bodies of some 40 babies, some of whom had been beheaded. This past week has been the most difficult week in the history of the Jewish people since the end of the Shoah/Holocaust in 1945. There is a word for what happened, and it is not an “attack.” It is a pogrom, and it makes the most infamous pogroms in Jewish history – those at Kishinev, 1903 -- pale in comparison. They did not go after military targets. Hardly. They have taken hostages — children; elderly people, including a Holocaust survivor who uses a wheelchair; and several soldiers. More than 260 bodies have been recovered at a music festival in southern Israel. Jews were rounded up and shot in the streets; we have not seen this since the Holocaust. Hamas dragged hostages through the streets of Gaza. They publicly mutilated corpses. Israeli girls raped. Children in Gaza tormented Israeli hostage children. Hamas pulled hostages from cars, screaming “Allah hu akhbar!” Hamas has called on their people to use all weapons. Including axes. They screamed, in apocalyptic tones: “Today the most glorious and honorable history begins.” The charter of Hamas is an opera of conspiratorial antisemitism, which suggests that the Jews are in league with calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and her inhabitants: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” In its 1988 charter, it alleged that the Jews were in league with "Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, and the Lions." There is a word for what we -- all Jews, and not just Israelis -- are experiencing. It is called trauma. We dedicate this podcast to the people of Israel, as we talk about trauma, resiliency, and hope.

ANN Groong Week in Review - June 4, 2023Topics:Armenian Azerbaijani Negotiations Continue You say Chisinau, I say Kishinev Deputy PMs Meet in Moscow Israeli President Visits AzerbaijanPashinyan Attends Erdogan's InaugurationArmenia-Russia RelationsGuest:Sergei Melkonian - FB/sergei.melkonianHosts:Hovik Manucharyan TW/@HovikYerevanAsbed Bedrossian TW/@qubriqEpisode 260 | Recorded June 5, 2023Subscribe and follow us everywhere you are: linktr.ee/groong

In the summer of 1980, Theodosius Glukharev received a series of harrowing deliveries to his home in Kishinev, Soviet Moldova. The contents ultimately unravelled the murders of three women – Nina Puganova, Irina Trasyn & Anastasia Mikhailova... --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Holly Boyd Creative direction – Milly Raso Production and music – Mike Migas Music – Andrew D.B. Joslyn Sign up for Casefile Premium: Apple Premium Spotify Premium Patreon This episode's sponsors: In the Shadows – Listen to a podcast from Casefile Presents (available everywhere) For all credits and sources, please visit casefilepodcast.com/case-247-nina-puganova-irina-trasyn-anastasia-mikhailova

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Amalia Bar-Oz never met her great-grandmother. But she knows that great-grandma Hesya was a fighter. That when the pogroms ripped her life apart, she found a new hope in her ancestral homeland… ~~~~  Resources: On Life in the Shtetl and Pogroms in the Russian Empire: Article 1, Article 2, Article 3 Podcast on Kishinev, Video on Kishinev Video on Shtetl Life On Early/Proto-Zionist Movements: Article 1, Article 2, Article 3 Video On Kibbutzim: Video: What Life is Like on an Israeli Kibbutz Article 1, 2, 3, 4 Homepage of the first kibbutz (in Hebrew) ~~~~  This show was made possible by support from the Koum Family Foundation, the Crain-Maling Foundation, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, and the Skolnick Family Charitable Trust.

Amalia Bar-Oz never met her great-grandmother. But she knows that great-grandma Hesya was a fighter. That when the pogroms ripped her life apart, she found a new hope in her ancestral homeland… ~~~~  Resources: On Life in the Shtetl and Pogroms in the Russian Empire: Article 1, Article 2, Article 3 Podcast on Kishinev, Video on Kishinev Video on Shtetl Life On Early/Proto-Zionist Movements: Article 1, Article 2, Article 3 Video On Kibbutzim: Video: What Life is Like on an Israeli Kibbutz Article 1, 2, 3, 4 Homepage of the first kibbutz (in Hebrew) ~~~~  This show was made possible by support from the Koum Family Foundation, the Crain-Maling Foundation, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, and the Skolnick Family Charitable Trust.

Por Yehuda Krell Ira Jan era el seudónimo de la pintora y escritora Esther Yoselévich, quien nació el 2 de febrero de 1869 en Kishinev, entonces Imperio Ruso, (hoy Moldavia). Fue fundadora de la Escuela Hebrea de Rehavia, y miembro de la academia de artes y diseño Bezalel. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/radiojai/message

Prior to the Holocaust, the 1903 pogrom in Kishinev (now Moldova) was the most infamous occurrence of Jewish suffering in the Diaspora. In this episode, Noam explores the many myths that surround the massacre and how it inspired Theodor Herzl to propose the controversial Uganda Plan.  ~~~~ This season of Unpacking Israeli History is generously sponsored by Barbara Sommer & Alan Fisher, and Marci & Andrew Spitzer, and this episode is generously sponsored by ​​the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York, and the Tampa Jewish Federation. ~~~~ Learn more about Unpacked: https://jewishunpacked.com/about/ Visit Unpacked on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/unpacked  Unpacking Israeli History about the Uganda Plan: https://jewishunpacked.com/herzl-and-the-non-promised-land/ ~~~~ Edward Judge, Anatomy of a Pogrom http://faculty.history.umd.edu/BCooperman/NewCity/Slaughter.html Micah Goodman, The Wondering Jew: Israel and the Search for Jewish Identity https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.2307/23877915 https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1093/mj/kjh017 https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/naacp/founding-and-early-years.html Ervin Birnbaum, In the Shadow of the Struggle https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.2307/40574565 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EAQVYv-rqw

The Kishinev Pogrom of 1903 was among the seminal events of modern Jewish history. The violence was memorialized in ways that shaped Jewish identity, from the early Zionist national narrative to Jewish American social activism. Prof. Steven Zipperstein examines the history, memory and myth of the violence in Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History. This episode was made possible by the Israel office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, which promotes peace, freedom, and justice through political education. This episode was also made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

El 17 de octubre de 1880, nació Ze'ev Vladimir Jabotinsky, en Odessa, Ucrania. Ze'ev fue un destacado líder sionista, escritor, orador, periodista y soldado. A sus 23 años fue profundamente conmovido por los sangrientos ataques en contra de los judíos de Odessa y Kishinev. Este suceso fue conocido como el Pogromo de Kishinev, e influenció la ideología de Ze'ev, enfocada en la auto-defensa y el militarismo judío como algo fundamental para la misión sionista. Jabotinsky fue crucial para la creación de la Legión Judía del Ejército Británico durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, y ayudó a organizar las fuerzas de defensa judía que protegían a los miembros del Yishuv. Además de su participación en el establecimiento del Keren Hayesod, Jabotinsky también creó el Movimiento Juvenil Betar, el cual fue importante en la enseñanza del idioma hebreo, la cultura, la autodefensa, y el establecimiento del núcleo del partido moderno Likud. Se dedicó a traer a inmigrantes judíos a Israel, a veces de manera clandestina, a pesar de las crecientes restricciones por parte del gobierno británico. Jabotinsky dejó un legado intelectual de miles de trabajos y documentos: correspondencia, discursos, artículos publicados, panfletos y libros. Jabotinsky falleció en Nueva York en 1940 y no alcanzó a ver el cumplimiento de su sueño: ver la creación del estado judío. Más info en: www.hoyenlahistoriadeisrael.com

Special Tisha Ba'av Episode   The 1903 Kishinev Pogrom was a tragic massacre, with reverberations within the wider Jewish world remaining until this very day. Goaded on by anti-Semitic newspapers with cries of 'Death to the Jews', a blood libel was fabricated and a mob was unleashed on Easter Sunday, April 19, 1903. Leaving 49 killed, hundreds maimed and injured in its wake, Jewish property was destroyed and looted as well. Claims of complicity of the police and government were voiced in many quarters. But it was primarily the after effects of this pogrom which had a long term transformative effect on Jewish society in Russia and worldwide. The great immigration to the United States was already long underway, but it significantly intensified in the years following Kishinev and the subsequent 1905 revolution. American Jewry was galvanized to assist the victims, and this cemented the relationship US Jewry was to have with their brethren back in Eastern Europe. Within Russia, many of the Jewish youth became radicalized as a result of the massacre, joining clandestine revolutionary organizations with the goal of overthrowing the Czar. The most profound impact was felt within the nascent Zionist movement. Chaim Nachman Bialik was dispatched by the historian Shimon Dubnow to gather testimonies from survivors. Following his five week stay in Kishinev, Bialik penned 'Be'ir Hahareiga' - In the City of Death, a poem about the pogrom. Powerfully written, it also included strongly worded accusations in regards to the perceived passivity of the victims. The poem and its message was to have an immense impact, as it was published and translated and became immensely popular. Vladimir Jabotinsky's conclusion was to organize Jewish self defense, and Theodore Herzl's conclusion was the Uganda proposal at the Sixth Zionist Congress.  The shadow of the Kishinev tragedy was to hover over the many subsequent, and ever greater tragedies of the bloody 20th century.   For sponsorship opportunities about your favorite topics of Jewish history contact Yehuda at:  yehuda@yehudageberer.com   Subscribe To Our Podcast on:    PodBean: https://jsoundbites.podbean.com/   Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at @Jsoundbites You can email Yehuda at yehuda@yehudageberer.com

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El 19 de abril de 1903 estallaron en la ciudad de Kishinev, capital de Besarabia, entonces parte del Imperio ruso, hoy Moldavia, una sucesión de acciones criminales y vandálicas antijudías. Los disturbios se produjeron en el contexto de una incitación antisemita por parte de la prensa rusa con el apoyo del gobierno, que dejó un saldo de 49 judíos muertos, 92 resultaron gravemente heridos, 500 heridos leves, y más de 700 casas y negocios fueron saqueados y destruidos. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/radiojai/message

Teller From Jerusalem – Series 1 Episode 9 – The Birth of Israel For many Jewish leaders, the Kishinev Pogrom was transformative. To Herzl, Kishinev was further evidence that Jews desperately needed a home – wherever they could create it. Thus, when he spoke about Kishinev, he did not refer to it as an event or a place, but rather as a condition.  Find Video Episodes at http://www.youtube.com/hanochteller Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com  © 2021 Media Education Trust llc  

In this Prime Talk Podcast Video Sponsored by GETIDA – Guy Heretz - Co-Founder & CEO - RPGECOM - A leading management agency for Amazon sellers, shares his personal journey into eCommerce. Guy was born and raised in Kishinev, Moldova, and migrated to Israel at a very young age. After spending a few years in Israel Guy moved to Bulgaria where he graduated high school. When he turned 18 he decided to go back to IDF and join the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and serve the country for 5 years. During this time he trained many soldiers in his role as a commander. After graduating from university, his passion and dedication to service led him to join an Israeli political party that landed him a position working in the Israeli parliament (Knesset). After a few years in the nitty-gritty world of politics, Guy has discovered the charm and potential selling on Amazon. His first product launch on Amazon was successful but ended up as a failure. He quickly learned from his mistakes, went all-in, and relaunched a second time to find even greater success. After teaming up with a new business partner, they successfully launched RPGECOM, an eCommerce agency along with an eCommerce school for new sellers. RPGECOM today is a leading agency that is expanding globally, an educational platform for new sellers, and an investment firm for investors and entrepreneurs who wish to engage in the great potential growth of eCommerce. Find out more about RPGECOM: https://rpgecom.com/en/ Find out more about GETIDA: https://getida.com/ Please subscribe to our channel and share your thoughts and comments below. Stay safe and healthy in the meantime! #AmazonPrivateLabel #AmazonPPC #AmazonAgency

The Kishinev Pogrom of 1903 was among the seminal events of modern Jewish history. The violence was memorialized in ways that shaped Jewish identity, from the early Zionist national narrative to Jewish American social activism. Prof. Steven Zipperstein examines the history, memory and myth of the violence in Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History. This episode is made possible by the Israel office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, which promotes peace, freedom, and justice through political education. This season is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

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In this episode of the year 1903, Merisa tells the unfortunate story of the Iroquois Theatre Fire, which took place in Chicago, Illinois. Jordan tells us about the Kishinev Pogrom, a Jewish massacre inflicted by local Russian Catholics in the Russia Empire, which is now modern day Moldova.  This podcast series is about anything from well-known international events to obscure moments in history. We’re not historians, just two long time friends learning about occurrences that interest us from the 20th century, and then sharing them with each other. Every episode will cover a different topic from each of us, which happened in that year, starting with the year 1900.  Listen to this new show titled “This Year In History”, and if you’re not careful, you just might learn something.  Available on all podcast platforms.  For pictures and bonus information on this episode, subscribe to the This Year In History YouTube channel, and follow us on Instagram and/or "Like" our page on Facebook, where you can continue the conversation with us.  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9wphzLedO4LZayNQTCMEKg/featured  www.instagram.com/thisyearinhistorypodcast  www.facebook.com/thisyearinhistory  

In April 1903, 49 Jews were killed, 600 raped or wounded, and more than 1,000 Jewish-owned houses and stores were ransacked and destroyed during three days of violence in Kishinev. Steven Zipperstein, Stanford University, discusses how the attacks seized the imagination of an international public, quickly becoming the prototype of what would become known as a "pogrom." Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 35056]

In April 1903, 49 Jews were killed, 600 raped or wounded, and more than 1,000 Jewish-owned houses and stores were ransacked and destroyed during three days of violence in Kishinev. Steven Zipperstein, Stanford University, discusses how the attacks seized the imagination of an international public, quickly becoming the prototype of what would become known as a "pogrom." Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 35056]

In April 1903, 49 Jews were killed, 600 raped or wounded, and more than 1,000 Jewish-owned houses and stores were ransacked and destroyed during three days of violence in Kishinev. Steven Zipperstein, Stanford University, discusses how the attacks seized the imagination of an international public, quickly becoming the prototype of what would become known as a "pogrom." Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 35056]

In April 1903, 49 Jews were killed, 600 raped or wounded, and more than 1,000 Jewish-owned houses and stores were ransacked and destroyed during three days of violence in Kishinev. Steven Zipperstein, Stanford University, discusses how the attacks seized the imagination of an international public, quickly becoming the prototype of what would become known as a "pogrom." Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 35056]

The horrifying events of the Kishinev Pogrom, which left 49 Jews killed and 600 raped or wounded, would spur to action defenders of justice with organisations such as the NAACP. Steven Zipperstein joins this latest episode to unearth the nuanced history.

A Song for Eternity Shabbat is מקור הברכה , the source of all sanctity. It is the most sacred period of time, and, when we observe it properly, it endows us with kedushah and fills our homes with a special element of kedushah that endures forever. A vivid example of this powerful impact of Shabbat is a story told by Rav Paysach Krohn of a Rabbi named Rabbi Yonah Lazar. In 1992, Rabbi Lazar left the Lakewood Yeshiva, where he had been learning, to lead a yeshiva in Kishinev, the capital of Moldova, a region in the former Soviet Union. A department of Agudas Yisrael worked to reestablish various yeshivot which existed before the Holocaust, and the yeshiva in Kishinev was one such institution. Rabbi Lazar went with another young Rabbi to rebuild the yeshiva and work to rejuvenate Jewish life in the city of Kishinev. Thank G-d, their efforts were successful, and numerous young men and women from the city went on to study in higher level institutions abroad. The highlight for the yeshiva's students was the Friday night service, which was very moving and inspirational. The two young Rabbis taught the boys a number of Shabbat songs to make the experience exciting, including a Yiddish song composed by Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. The words of the song, translated into English, are, “If I had the strength, I would go in the streets and say out loud: Shabbat! Holy Shabbat!” The song is sung in a slow, haunting tune, and is customarily sung on “Shabbat marches” as part of the effort to spread awareness of the importance and value of Shabbat observance. The boys in Kishinev were electrified by this song. The Rabbis had the words translated into Russian to make it easier for the students to sing, and it became a weekly highlight, uplifting and inspiring the students. A number of years later, in December, 1993, Rabbi Lazar and his wife returned to the U.S. and moved to Los Angeles, where Rabbi Lazar worked as a 7 th grade teacher. Every Rosh Hodesh, he would tell his students stories of his experiences in Kishinev. One of the students' grandfather, Rabbi Aron Twerski, heard about Rabbi Lazar's experiences, and contacted him to inform him about his upcoming trip to Kishinev. Rabbi Twerski had ancestors buried in the city, and he wanted to visit their gravesites. He contacted Rabbi Lazar to offer to bring anything he wished to send to the yeshiva. Sometime later, Rabbi Lazar opened a book he had of memoirs from pre-war Kishinev, wondering if any mention is made of Rabbi Twerski's ancestors. He came across a passage which depicted the unique warm, serene atmosphere on Friday night in Kishinev. The author of the memoir wrote that many of the laymen in the city would make a point of praying on Friday night in the yeshiva in order to hear the students' spirited, soulful singing. He noted in particular the stirring experience of hearing Zecharya the watchmaker leading a rendition of Rav Levi Yitzchak's song. It was at this moment, the author wrote, that everybody truly felt the sanctity of Shabbat. Anyone who has not witnessed this sight, he went so far to say, has not tasted the beautiful flavor of Shabbat. Rabbi Lazar was stunned. The song which he had taught to his students in Kishinev, and which stirred their souls and inspired them with the kedushah of Shabbat, is the same song which marked the highlight of the Shabbat experience in that exact spot, in the yeshiva of Kishinev, some 60 years earlier. The kedushah generated by the singing of Rav Levi Yitzchak's song in pre-war Kishinev never left that site. It remained there for decades, and eventually had a profound impact, igniting the souls of young men who had not received a religious upbringing. This is the eternal, everlasting impact of the sanctity of Shabbat. This is true of kedushah generally. Rav Matisyahu Salomon told a remarkable story he heard of the Hazon Ish, who was once walking with a young Rabbi in Bnei -Brak when he suddenly stopped and smiled. The young Rabbi asked him why he was smiling, and the Hazon Ish explained that at that very spot, two students of the Ponevizh yeshiva were talking about Torah matters the previous Erev Shabbat, and he sensed the kedushah in that very spot. This impact of kedushah is real, and is something we can all bring to our homes. Many people have the custom when moving into a new home to have a חינוך הבית , a gathering where certain chapters of Mishnah, Zohar and other religious texts are read. The basis for this custom is the comment of the Zohar that if, during a house's construction, the builders spoke inappropriately or had inappropriate thoughts, this generates a certain element of tum'ah (impurity) in the house. This is why the Torah warns that after Beneh Yisrael entered the Land of Israel, some houses might be stricken with tzara'at (a kind of “leprosy” that manifests itself on the walls of homes) which would require them to be dismantled. Since these houses were built by idolaters, they were contaminated with tum'ah and needed to be destroyed. Therefore, in order to counteract any possible impure effect of the people who built the new home, it became customary to recite certain Torah texts upon moving into a new home. Every Shabbat, we have the precious opportunity to inject our homes with a powerful and eternal element of kedushah . By observing Shabbat the way it is supposed to be observed, by sharing words of Torah and singing zemirot , we can bring holiness to the home, where it will remain and have a profound impact for many generations to come.

Steven Zipperstein discusses the Kishinev pogrom and its afterlife in modern Jewish history and memory: the tremendous influence of Kishinev on how Jews have seen the world, the dangers of misinformation and propaganda, and how one event can shape a generation. Ultimately, the pogrom highlights how and why history matters: how the Kishinev pogrom has become so influential in modern Jewish history, and also the tension between the public memory of the pogrom and the actual historical events themselves. Today, we're in an age when actual facts and details do matter, but the Kishinev pogrom shows the power of myth and memory too.

By Steven J Zipperstein with Angus Smith Jewish Faith & Jewish Facts Rabbi Steven Garten Aired: December 16th, 2018 on CHRI Radio 99.1FM in Ottawa, Canada. For questions, email Rabbi Garten at rabbishg@templeisraelottawa.com For more CHRI shows, visit chri.ca

By Steven J Zipperstein with Angus Smith Jewish Faith & Jewish Facts Rabbi Steven Garten Aired: December 16th, 2018 on CHRI Radio 99.1FM in Ottawa, Canada. For questions, email Rabbi Garten at rabbishg@templeisraelottawa.com For more CHRI shows, visit chri.ca

In what has become perhaps the most infamous example of modern anti-Jewish violence prior to the Holocaust, the Kishinev pogrom should have been a small story lost to us along with scores of other similar tragedies. Instead, Kishinev became an event of international intrigue, and lives on as the paradigmatic pogrom – a symbol of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The facts of the event are simple: over the course of three days in a Russian town, 49 Jews were killed and 600 raped or injured by their neighbors, a thousand Jewish-owned houses and stores destroyed. What concerns Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History (Liveright/W. W. Norton, 2018) is less what happened and more the legacy, reception, and interpretation of those facts, both at the time and today. Pogrom is a study of the ways in which the events of Kishinev in 1903 astonishingly acted as a catalyst for leftist politics, new forms of anti-semitism, and the creation of an international involvement with the lives of Russian Jews. In an introduction that sets the context of Russian-Jewish life at the opening of the 20th century, and five essay like chapters that follow, Professor Zipperstein uses different types of sources, marshaled from archives across the world in concert with well known accounts, to weave together a study of the ways in which the pogrom has been received and imagined from a myriad of different perspectives. A poetic memorialization by the man that would become the “national poet” of Israel, Haim Nachman Bialik, based on his eyewitness account, a journalistic investigation by Michael Davitt in Within the Pale: The True Story of the Anti-Semitic Persecutions in Russia culled from newspaper reports published around the world, as well as previously unknown connections to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and to American radical politics. We read of an provincial event that captured the imagination of an international community, Jew and non-Jew alike, and provided them with a peephole into the lives of Russian Jewry. In many ways, this reception was paradoxical: by some, Jews were perceived as victims of popular violence, while others saw them as masterminds of a media-driven conspiracy. In an age where much of our relationship with world events is shaped by often times contradictory media perspectives, Pogrom speaks to the ways in which this operates and its unwitting consequences. Here, Kishinev does not represent a pristine memory of a single story but rather exposes many of the historical trends of the 20th century and helps us further understand the relationships between media and power, between violence and empathy, and the ways in which we come to understand the unfolding narratives around us. Steven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. Moses Lapin is a graduate student in the departments of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, if both Descartes and my mother are correct then I am not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In what has become perhaps the most infamous example of modern anti-Jewish violence prior to the Holocaust, the Kishinev pogrom should have been a small story lost to us along with scores of other similar tragedies. Instead, Kishinev became an event of international intrigue, and lives on as the paradigmatic pogrom – a symbol of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The facts of the event are simple: over the course of three days in a Russian town, 49 Jews were killed and 600 raped or injured by their neighbors, a thousand Jewish-owned houses and stores destroyed. What concerns Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History (Liveright/W. W. Norton, 2018) is less what happened and more the legacy, reception, and interpretation of those facts, both at the time and today. Pogrom is a study of the ways in which the events of Kishinev in 1903 astonishingly acted as a catalyst for leftist politics, new forms of anti-semitism, and the creation of an international involvement with the lives of Russian Jews. In an introduction that sets the context of Russian-Jewish life at the opening of the 20th century, and five essay like chapters that follow, Professor Zipperstein uses different types of sources, marshaled from archives across the world in concert with well known accounts, to weave together a study of the ways in which the pogrom has been received and imagined from a myriad of different perspectives. A poetic memorialization by the man that would become the “national poet” of Israel, Haim Nachman Bialik, based on his eyewitness account, a journalistic investigation by Michael Davitt in Within the Pale: The True Story of the Anti-Semitic Persecutions in Russia culled from newspaper reports published around the world, as well as previously unknown connections to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and to American radical politics. We read of an provincial event that captured the imagination of an international community, Jew and non-Jew alike, and provided them with a peephole into the lives of Russian Jewry. In many ways, this reception was paradoxical: by some, Jews were perceived as victims of popular violence, while others saw them as masterminds of a media-driven conspiracy. In an age where much of our relationship with world events is shaped by often times contradictory media perspectives, Pogrom speaks to the ways in which this operates and its unwitting consequences. Here, Kishinev does not represent a pristine memory of a single story but rather exposes many of the historical trends of the 20th century and helps us further understand the relationships between media and power, between violence and empathy, and the ways in which we come to understand the unfolding narratives around us. Steven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. Moses Lapin is a graduate student in the departments of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, if both Descartes and my mother are correct then I am not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In what has become perhaps the most infamous example of modern anti-Jewish violence prior to the Holocaust, the Kishinev pogrom should have been a small story lost to us along with scores of other similar tragedies. Instead, Kishinev became an event of international intrigue, and lives on as the paradigmatic... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In what has become perhaps the most infamous example of modern anti-Jewish violence prior to the Holocaust, the Kishinev pogrom should have been a small story lost to us along with scores of other similar tragedies. Instead, Kishinev became an event of international intrigue, and lives on as the paradigmatic pogrom – a symbol of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The facts of the event are simple: over the course of three days in a Russian town, 49 Jews were killed and 600 raped or injured by their neighbors, a thousand Jewish-owned houses and stores destroyed. What concerns Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History (Liveright/W. W. Norton, 2018) is less what happened and more the legacy, reception, and interpretation of those facts, both at the time and today. Pogrom is a study of the ways in which the events of Kishinev in 1903 astonishingly acted as a catalyst for leftist politics, new forms of anti-semitism, and the creation of an international involvement with the lives of Russian Jews. In an introduction that sets the context of Russian-Jewish life at the opening of the 20th century, and five essay like chapters that follow, Professor Zipperstein uses different types of sources, marshaled from archives across the world in concert with well known accounts, to weave together a study of the ways in which the pogrom has been received and imagined from a myriad of different perspectives. A poetic memorialization by the man that would become the “national poet” of Israel, Haim Nachman Bialik, based on his eyewitness account, a journalistic investigation by Michael Davitt in Within the Pale: The True Story of the Anti-Semitic Persecutions in Russia culled from newspaper reports published around the world, as well as previously unknown connections to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and to American radical politics. We read of an provincial event that captured the imagination of an international community, Jew and non-Jew alike, and provided them with a peephole into the lives of Russian Jewry. In many ways, this reception was paradoxical: by some, Jews were perceived as victims of popular violence, while others saw them as masterminds of a media-driven conspiracy. In an age where much of our relationship with world events is shaped by often times contradictory media perspectives, Pogrom speaks to the ways in which this operates and its unwitting consequences. Here, Kishinev does not represent a pristine memory of a single story but rather exposes many of the historical trends of the 20th century and helps us further understand the relationships between media and power, between violence and empathy, and the ways in which we come to understand the unfolding narratives around us. Steven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. Moses Lapin is a graduate student in the departments of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, if both Descartes and my mother are correct then I am not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In what has become perhaps the most infamous example of modern anti-Jewish violence prior to the Holocaust, the Kishinev pogrom should have been a small story lost to us along with scores of other similar tragedies. Instead, Kishinev became an event of international intrigue, and lives on as the paradigmatic pogrom – a symbol of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The facts of the event are simple: over the course of three days in a Russian town, 49 Jews were killed and 600 raped or injured by their neighbors, a thousand Jewish-owned houses and stores destroyed. What concerns Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History (Liveright/W. W. Norton, 2018) is less what happened and more the legacy, reception, and interpretation of those facts, both at the time and today. Pogrom is a study of the ways in which the events of Kishinev in 1903 astonishingly acted as a catalyst for leftist politics, new forms of anti-semitism, and the creation of an international involvement with the lives of Russian Jews. In an introduction that sets the context of Russian-Jewish life at the opening of the 20th century, and five essay like chapters that follow, Professor Zipperstein uses different types of sources, marshaled from archives across the world in concert with well known accounts, to weave together a study of the ways in which the pogrom has been received and imagined from a myriad of different perspectives. A poetic memorialization by the man that would become the “national poet” of Israel, Haim Nachman Bialik, based on his eyewitness account, a journalistic investigation by Michael Davitt in Within the Pale: The True Story of the Anti-Semitic Persecutions in Russia culled from newspaper reports published around the world, as well as previously unknown connections to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and to American radical politics. We read of an provincial event that captured the imagination of an international community, Jew and non-Jew alike, and provided them with a peephole into the lives of Russian Jewry. In many ways, this reception was paradoxical: by some, Jews were perceived as victims of popular violence, while others saw them as masterminds of a media-driven conspiracy. In an age where much of our relationship with world events is shaped by often times contradictory media perspectives, Pogrom speaks to the ways in which this operates and its unwitting consequences. Here, Kishinev does not represent a pristine memory of a single story but rather exposes many of the historical trends of the 20th century and helps us further understand the relationships between media and power, between violence and empathy, and the ways in which we come to understand the unfolding narratives around us. Steven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. Moses Lapin is a graduate student in the departments of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, if both Descartes and my mother are correct then I am not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In what has become perhaps the most infamous example of modern anti-Jewish violence prior to the Holocaust, the Kishinev pogrom should have been a small story lost to us along with scores of other similar tragedies. Instead, Kishinev became an event of international intrigue, and lives on as the paradigmatic pogrom – a symbol of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The facts of the event are simple: over the course of three days in a Russian town, 49 Jews were killed and 600 raped or injured by their neighbors, a thousand Jewish-owned houses and stores destroyed. What concerns Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History (Liveright/W. W. Norton, 2018) is less what happened and more the legacy, reception, and interpretation of those facts, both at the time and today. Pogrom is a study of the ways in which the events of Kishinev in 1903 astonishingly acted as a catalyst for leftist politics, new forms of anti-semitism, and the creation of an international involvement with the lives of Russian Jews. In an introduction that sets the context of Russian-Jewish life at the opening of the 20th century, and five essay like chapters that follow, Professor Zipperstein uses different types of sources, marshaled from archives across the world in concert with well known accounts, to weave together a study of the ways in which the pogrom has been received and imagined from a myriad of different perspectives. A poetic memorialization by the man that would become the “national poet” of Israel, Haim Nachman Bialik, based on his eyewitness account, a journalistic investigation by Michael Davitt in Within the Pale: The True Story of the Anti-Semitic Persecutions in Russia culled from newspaper reports published around the world, as well as previously unknown connections to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and to American radical politics. We read of an provincial event that captured the imagination of an international community, Jew and non-Jew alike, and provided them with a peephole into the lives of Russian Jewry. In many ways, this reception was paradoxical: by some, Jews were perceived as victims of popular violence, while others saw them as masterminds of a media-driven conspiracy. In an age where much of our relationship with world events is shaped by often times contradictory media perspectives, Pogrom speaks to the ways in which this operates and its unwitting consequences. Here, Kishinev does not represent a pristine memory of a single story but rather exposes many of the historical trends of the 20th century and helps us further understand the relationships between media and power, between violence and empathy, and the ways in which we come to understand the unfolding narratives around us. Steven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. Moses Lapin is a graduate student in the departments of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, if both Descartes and my mother are correct then I am not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Les Do Books Salem West Talks Jewish Lesbian Fiction Listen as Tara talks to author, reviewer and Bywater Books publisher Salem West. Salem comes prepared with her reader hat on and shares about three books by Jewish lesbian authors that are not to be missed.  Check out the books discussed here:  Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon - get it on Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.ca The Escape Artist by Judith Katz - get it on Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.ca I Came Out for This by Lisa Gitlin - get it on Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.ca   Learn more about Salem West Facebook Twitter   Read Salem’s reviews at The Rainbow Reader    Check out Bywater Books  See our review and top 10 lists featuring Salem’s book Hoosier Daddy    More info Come talk to us about these books and any other lesfic you’ve been reading lately at our Facebook group, The Lesbian Review Book Club.    You can see all of our reviews, top 10 lists and author profiles on TheLesbianReview.com and don’t forget to send your emails, questions and more to Tara@TheLesbianReview.com   Beyond the Pale Set in Russia and New York during the early twentieth century, Beyond the Pale follows the lives of two women born in a Russian-Jewish settlement who immigrate to New York’s Lower East Side. Gutke Gurvich is a midwife who travels to America with her partner, a woman passing as a man. Their story crosses with that of Chava Meyer, a girl who was attended by Gutke at her birth and was later orphaned during the Kishinev pogrom of 1903. Chava immigrates with the family of her cousin Rose, and the two girls begin working at fourteen as they live through the oppression and tragedies of their time. They grow to become lovers, which leads them to search for a community they can truly call their own.   Touching on the hallmarks of the Progressive Era—the Women’s Trade Union League, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911, anarchist and socialist movements, women’s suffrage, anti-Semitism—Dykewomon’s Beyond the Pale is a richly detailed and moving story, offering a glimpse into a world that is often overlooked. get it on Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.ca The Escape Artist Sofia, a nice Jewish girl from Poland, is lured away from home by Tutsik Goldenberg, a wealthy traveling businessman who claims to be a lonely Argentine diamond merchant in search of a wife. Upon arriving in Buenos Aires, Tutsik dumps Sofia at his sister’s brothel. Hankus, also a nice Jewish girl from Poland, is passing as a man. Having escaped the pogroms of Poland that killed her family, she lives her life as a handsome and mysterious magician and escape artist. When Tutsik spots the talented juggler and acrobat Hankus he envisions success as his manager, seeing Hankus as the means to get out from under his sister’s thumb. Sofia and Hankus fall in love and their attempts to walk the tightrope of love, freedom, and independence are quickly put to the test. Sex, deception, magic, and love are the main ingredients of this tour de force novel by Lambda Literary Award winner Judith Katz. In The Escape Artist, Katz reveals that all human interactions consist of love and hate, deception and candor, altruism and self-interest. This is as true in our lives today as it was in an immigrant community at the turn of the last century. get it on Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.ca   I Came Out for This There’s only one place Joanna Kane can tell it like it is. Her journal: I hate Terri Rubin, the woman I’m in love with. She called and told me she’s dating a woman named Sonya. I hate this Sonya and I hate Terri and I hate myself because I was never like this in my life. Do you know what it’s like to come out when you’re in your forties, having menopausal symptoms, for God’s sake, and then fall madly in love with someone? All of a sudden you’re in adolescencefor the first time. You don’t even recognize yourself. My whole adult life I was this cool, collected writer, strutting around in jeans and leather jacket, advising friends and siblings about their relationships, being a devoted daughter and a responsible professional person and a good citizen, and then one day I woke up and realized I was gay, and then this sassy woman walked into my life and I fell in love at first sight, after spending my life thinking that never really happened and only watching West Side Story because of the gangs. And now I’ve become the kind of person I used to make fun of, who becomes hysterical because her beloved tells her she’s dating some woman named Sonya who has an apothecary store in Bethesda, Maryland. I’m sick of being in this endless rut, I’m sick of Cleveland, and I’m thinking of moving to Washington, DC to be with Terri Rubin who I hate.   get it on Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.ca

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