Poland and Lithuania are home to the Chassidic movement, misnagdim and the controversy between the two, so much of our halachic commentary, and a rich and diverse Jewish cultural life. Walking their streets, we can relive our history and find our place in it. Get a taste of the stories and knowledge Drs. Shnayer Leiman and Henry Abramson have to share and what you’ll experience if you join Touro’s luxury summer tour of Poland & Lithuania with this special episode of Touro Talks. Learn more about the touro at https://www.touro.edu/journeys
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I have already read Neighbors a long time ago. The history that Gross tells is frightening and very sad. It is hard to conceive what neighbors did to jewish ones particularly neighbors living side by side in rural small villages where one would expect that a sort of bonding would be a natural behavior, as compared to neighbors today in modern cities where we hardly know our neighbors. This is so frustrating as to reconsider what is in fact the concept of our "human condition".
Very Interesting!
Interesting perspectives….
very interesting and informative. no black and white anti-Semitism when it came to the poles. See Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal's "Poles and Jews: A Call for Myth Reconstruction" (Academia Press 2024)
Literally not what happened. Yeshivish *** rewriting history. 😂
The reason you don't see the "polish names" is they weren't necessarily from poland proper and they eradicated entire families with no one to share the names. 😮
Leta! This is a great opportunity to see these remarkable places. And if you can go to Poland for different reasons, then seeing Lithuania is a great opportunity. It remains somewhat off the main routes today. And so many Jewish ideas and events and personalities are connected to these places.
You don't have to contribute to their economy.