A discussion on the historical and religious significance of the Red Jews and Ma'aseh Akdamus.
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[Music] welcome to the fth episode of the ongoing series the 10 lost tribes in Jewish Consciousness here on sparm cheddar and I'm Naki Weinstein in this episode we discussed the history of the red Jews or theud in German and Yiddish literature as the Ten tribes came to be referred to as well as the famous Mas akamus which is a legend centered around the akamus P that we say on shivu where ra shots of worms allegedly travels to fifth episode of the series hi everyone welcome to another edition of this Farm chatter podcast and another episode in the ongoing series here on Swarm chatter 10 LW tribes and Jewish Consciousness on this episode of the podcast this episode of the series I'm going going to be joined by Professor Rebecca Voss who is the associate professor of Jewish history at the Guta University Frankfurt and we'll be discussing the red Jews which we discussed on our other episode which may or may not come out before this one but about her book previous book disputed Messiah and this book this is a recent book that she printed also so it fits into the series and it's a brand new book titled sons of surv Sons of Saviors the red Jews and yish culture published by pen University press so thank you you Professor Voss for joining me once again thank you for having me I'm very excited to speak about the right choose always a fun topic yeah I I usually start off how do you become interested in something and then but I think here just as a I can wait on that for a minute what are the red Jews or the I think listeners
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