In a world that is increasingly polarized, we invite you to break out of the echo chamber to hear what’s really going on. Each Tuesday, Rivky Stern, senior podcast producer for Unpacked, will unpack the most interesting, controversial news stories from Israel and the Jewish world.
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In a world that is increasingly polarized, we invite you to break out of the echo chamber to hear what’s really going on. Each Tuesday, Rivky Stern, senior podcast producer for Unpacked, will unpack the most interesting, controversial news stories from Israel and the Jewish world.
For September, we're doing something different. Presenting, Unpacking Israeli History. Begin and Ben Gurion had some epics battles, but one of the biggest ones happened in 1952, as these two Israeli giants battled about whether to take German reparations after the Holocaust. In this episode, Noam looks all the way back at this crazy story, and leaves us asking, who was right?
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Unpacking Israeli History is generously sponsored by Alan Fisher and Barbara Sommer, and Jon and Rachie Teller.
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Sources
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/ta-nehisi-coates-reparations.html
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/67de380e-8b71-412c-8d06-70af9b31da25
https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/displaced-persons/daily2.htm
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-breaks-50-year-record-for-most-rainfall-613693
tastecooking.com/truth-israeli-couscous/
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/144226014.pdf
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/07/700356426/thousands-of-israelis-now-call-berlin-home-and-make-their-cultural-mark
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/labor-and-internment-camps-in-north-africa
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110255386.100/html
http://auschwitz.org/en/history/punishments-and-executions/
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/reparations-agreement/
https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/28248/1001729.pdf?sequence=1
https://www.aicgs.org/2019/11/the-september-1952-reparations-agreement-between-west-germany-and-israel-the-beginning-of-a-remarkable-friendship/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/german-holocaust-reparations
Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel's Soul, by Danny Gordis
Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel, Anita Shapira
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This Week Unpacked
In a world that is increasingly polarized, we invite you to break out of the echo chamber to hear what’s really going on. Each Tuesday, Rivky Stern, senior podcast producer for Unpacked, will unpack the most interesting, controversial news stories from Israel and the Jewish world.
