A playlist from The Jewish Story
Poland
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The New Homeland
August 24, 2018 · 41 min · Episode page →
As the Jews of Ashkenaz moved eastward, they brought their customs and language with them. What they found waiting in Poland was a refuge that would allow them...
About this playlist
Poland, heartland of Jewish life for centuries: the new homeland, the massacres of 1648, the Hasidic courts, the interwar years and the Warsaw Ghetto.
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
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