September 13, 2022 • 52 mins
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…
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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)
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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.
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