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In the City of Death: The 1903 Kishinev Pogrom

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A historical account of the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom and its impact on the Jewish world.

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you de Gabra with Jewish history sound bites and this is a replay of an old tishabove episode from several years ago about the 1903 Kishv pagrum and I will be on the road for the next several weeks with different trips going to many different countries and maybe we'll tell you all about that when I get back some wonderful wonderful groups and we're exploring Jewish history across the length and breath of desperate to hear Jewish history sound bites so we need to have it. So for the next five or six weeks um I will be playing replays. This week a special tishabove episode from several years ago about the kitchen of pgramrum and over the next few weeks lighter material that's appropriate for summertime fun. Um once we are on tishabove though I will also want to say that like last year I again this year I had the privilege to participate in a really really wonderful beautiful project with really wonderful beautiful project with the Bonet Olam organization very very special organization headed by Rabbi Schlommo Bachner um which helps people around the world struggling with all kinds of fertility issues and a very very special organization and a very big special sadic of a person to have been able to do this project with and we made a film a history documentary very special film that will be played on Tishabove. So keep your eyes out for

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