A playlist from The Jewish Story
Jerusalem
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The Channuka Revolt
July 14, 2018 · 52 min · Episode page →
In this episode, Rav Mike describes the rise of Hellenistic Judaism as the background for the Channukah story. Judah and his brothers rose in revolt because they understood...
About this playlist
The city at the center of the story: the Maccabees and Herod, the destruction, the poets who longed for it, the battles for it in 1948 and 1967, and Jerusalem Day.
Where this sits in the story
8 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
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