Rabbi Berel Wein - The Jews of Krakow

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Berel Wein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] i'm sorry that the heat is not the really at its optimum tonight but that's the way it was in krakow last week uh i spoke to you about the last week uh i spoke to you about the situation of the jews in vilna uh in the 18th century the enormous disputes that consumed the community and the disputes that continued then into the 19th and 20th and even into the 21st century's disputes that have not gone away from us disputes regarding the rabbinate and disputes regarding crusaders and the disputes regarding crusaders and the disputes regarding haskallah and the problems of anti-semitism and anti-jewish feeling now krakow is a little different uh and in order for us to really appreciate uh what happened in the 18th century we have to begin earlier uh what happened with the jews the general history of the jews in krakow krakow was the capital of poland in medieval times there was no warsaw in medieval times there was no warsaw and krakow was a university town it was a town of intellectual prowess you're talking about the time of jan huss and you're talking about the time of copernicus people that stood against the church people that uh opened up new vistas in uh the ideas of how to view the universe and how to view mankind and therefore and how to view mankind and therefore jews enjoyed a great deal of hospitality in the first few hundred years in poland certainly in the first few hundred years in krakow krakow was a city on the hoist gel river uh it was a major trading city it was uh galicia it had the bonds with ukraine uh traded north and south and east and

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