A playlist from The Jewish Story
Germany
Episode 1 of 7
The German Socrates
September 2, 2018 · 62 min · Episode page →
Moses Mendelssohn was a critical philosopher of the German Enlightenment and the most controversial figure of the Jewish Enlightenment. Whether you think that he was a light to...
About this playlist
Germany: the Berlin Enlightenment and the science of Judaism, the Holocaust, the reckoning that followed, and Munich.
Where this sits in the story
4 of 9 eras
The Second Temple600 BCE–70 CESages and Geonim70–1000Sefarad and Ashkenaz1000–1492After the Expulsion1492–1700Modernity Arrives1700–1880Return and Catastrophe1880–1948The Young State1948–1967After 19671967–1987Into the Present1987–2023
More in places that shaped us
PlaceJerusalem
The city at the center of the story: the Maccabees and Herod, the destruction, the poets who longed for it, the battles…12 episodes →
SeriesThe Temple Mount
Every tale has a point around which it revolves, and for the Jewish Story that point is the Temple Mount. In four…4 episodes →
PlaceBabylon
Babylon: home of the exile, the Talmud and the Geonim, and for a thousand years a second center of Jewish life.7 episodes →
Series