Professor Jay Winter - Escaping the Holocaust: The Mir Yeshiva

Professor Jay Winter - Escaping the Holocaust: The Mir Yeshiva from Vilna to Shanghai and beyond

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In this week's episode, we will be talking about World War II, when the Nazis wiped out the world of Jewish scholarship centred in ‘Yeshivot’ in Europe. But one academy survived intact. Professor Jay Winter from Yale University tells the story of how o...

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