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Halachic challenges with the early Jewish immigration to America (1850 - 1924) (with Dr. Akiva St...

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SeforimChatter with Nachi Weinstein

A discussion on halachic challenges with the early Jewish immigration to America with Dr. Akiva Sternberg.

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it'll be some point over the next couple weeks but it's going to be about the beginning Jews of Spain under Muslim Spain Kista Christian Spain um and then the rights of 1391 and then there's going to be on the um Inquisition and there will be about the converso Morano new Christian we're going to call them the expulsion of 1492 to the for the force conversion expulsion of Portugal in 1497 and then after that and so on so there's going to be there's South America there's going to be a lot in there I'll talk more about this at length again when the series starts it's 20ep 20 episodes as of now may even get bigger but this 20 and there will be some other ones you know uh associated with it that generally that series as well the podcast won't become Spain chatter the the that series will be like with the sh St Feast Series in the past it will be on um Wednesdays uh I think it will be the Sundays will be a standard episode Wednesday will be the Spain series it there may be a little um but you know live in Spain they're separate things they will be you know kind of concurrently with the series something like that so do you have anyone has suggestions for things like that email me in general for for this series uh you can reach out and uh email me so stay tuned for that as well as again regular episodes suggestions things like that um feel free to email me and if anyone is you know for any new listeners and old listeners as well especially if if you listen on Apple if you can read the podcast and if you

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  1. 1:06it'll be some point over the next couple weeks but it's going to be about the
  2. 7:35in to the shum that my father gave and he based most of his sh on
  3. 14:03practicing even though they immigrated to the United States with all the problems involved so I
  4. 20:30alone uh uh in Eastern Europe unprotected and without any source of income and the estimates
  5. 26:26interesting chuva of uh Rabbi do lein from the Ukraine who happened to come to the
  6. 32:43home but don't come back on Sunday and he says okay he goes home and he
  7. 39:21the issues that they face and the rabbis here in in America uh were very attentive
  8. 45:19immigrated to America and he started out as an apprentice in a real estate agency and
  9. 51:50time theud Berlin uh ra shadron and others all adopted uh the ability to identify a
  10. 58:01smudges that appeared in gtin arriving from America uh resulted from the humidity on the ships

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