Ashkenazi
Jerome Goldman
Ashkenazi traces 1,100 years of Ashkenazi Jewish history — from the ninth-century Rhine Valley communities of Mainz, Worms, and Speyer to the founding of Israel in 1948. Across 12 episodes: the Crusades, the golden age of Yiddish Poland, the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi, the birth of Hasidism, Moses Mendelssohn, Theodor Herzl and Zionism, the Balfour Declaration, the Holocaust, and 1948.A deep dive into Jewish history, Yiddish culture, antisemitism, and the origins of modern Israel.