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Prof. Gershon David Hundert discusses Ber of Bolechów's memoirs and contributions to Jewish history.
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[Music] welcome to another episode of the sparm shedar podcast and I'm Naki Weinstein the guest on this episode is Professor garan David hund Al shalam one of the foremost experts on Eastern European Jews especially the Jews of Poland the in the 18th century who recently passed away a little over a week ago Professor hund authored a number of books including Jews in Poland Lithuania in the 18th century the Jews in a Polish private town the the Jews in a Polish private town the case of up in the 18th century and he was also the editorinchief of the massive Yeo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe which is two volumes and also available online for free as well as authoring numerous articles and editing various books Professor hund recently edited Dove be berenthal or bar of Bev Memoirs and Divina which is um a history of shapit and the frankist movement especially Bears role in the 1759 disputation in lav Lumberg with the frankist that he relays in debina uh your favorite podcast listening platform and enjoy the podcast hi everyone welcome to another edition of the Swarm chatter podcast on this episode of the podcast I'm going to be joined by Professor garon David hundt who is the lead nor seal professor of Jewish studies and professor of history at Mill University in Montreal and we will be discussing do be burol or bear bov I think he's from and his uh his his works his history kind of uh Chronicle or history work which is titled diina and also Z his remembrances kind of Auto
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- 0:01[Music] welcome to another episode of the sparm shedar podcast and I'm Naki Weinstein the guest…
- 8:16there were two versions of the Memoirs uh and uh he had published only one uh…
- 13:59order wrong he messed up the whole so all of that took a very long time…
- 20:11lived in what would be the German Empire at the time 10 times uh so this's…
- 25:53anymore but it was redone beautifully a couple of years ago TR raport it um so…
- 32:09it you know he didn't realize that now um so what's unique about him from know…
- 38:23him as saying that he knew Po and lots of other people uh did but certainly…
- 44:04earlier with think that you know Professor Papa Mao used him extensively in his book to…
- 50:13M uh I found the court records not in the Memoirs of him having getting into…
- 55:55can any can listen interested reading more about this where this is in or in the…
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