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Listen to noted Tour Guide, Lecturer and Yad Vashem Researcher of Jewish History Yehuda Geberer bring the world of pre-war Eastern Europe alive. Join in to meet the great personages, institutions and episodes of a riveting past.
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Saturday Mar 29, 2025
Saturday Mar 29, 2025
External forces of the modern era such as political & economic changes, emancipation, the collapse of the kahal autonomy, technological advancement, wars, urbanization & immigration, led to the mass secularization of the Jewish People in the modern era. Conversely Orthodoxy was defined and strengthened through confronting its struggles during this time. Many non-orthodox internal Jewish movements arose over the course of the 18th-20th centuries, each one attempting to redefine Jewish identity in the modern era. While most Jews secularized and assimilated, various internal Jewish movements from Reform & Haskala to Jewish nationalism, attempted to create an alternative sense of Jewish identity for modern times.
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6 months ago
Your four part series on secularization is awesome. In the first part, you posed the question about the religiosity of the Jews in the middle ages under system. You answer that they were quite unlearned under the circumstances of the times. However, I was hoping you would address the level of their commitment, which is a different aspect. You have Jews, who are very unlearned yet they were very committed to yiddidhkeit and were moser nefesh for it. Think of the. Comments of the chosid yaavetz at the time. I await your learned reply. Thanks again. Dovid wiener. Monsey.