A playlist from The Jewish Story
From the Pale to the Soviet Union
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Movement and Controversy
September 2, 2018 · 48 min · Episode page →
Within two decades after the Baal Shem Tov's death, a movement sprung up from his revolutionary thoughts. This new current of Jewish life did not emerge without controversy;...
About this playlist
Russia and the Pale of Settlement, where most of world Jewry lived: the movements it produced, the pioneers it sent, and the struggle of Soviet Jewry.
Where this sits in the story
5 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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