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Playlist: Jewish History Editors' Picks

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Extraordinary reporting, jubilant music, and riveting storytelling perfect for your station's programming around the Jewish holidays, and all year long.

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Brooklyn According to Kalish

From Jon Kalish | 00:58:53

Veteran public radio reporter Jon Kalish's 16-year journey into the Orthodox Jewish community of Brooklyn.

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 1. The First Jews

From The Radio Foundation, Inc. | Part of the ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience series | 00:58:57

America provided refuge from ancient European prejudice, persecution and poverty. "The First Jews" tells the little-known early history of Jews in Colonial America, from New Amsterdam to Charleston, SC.

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Stories Make the World

From Claire Schoen | Part of the ILLUMINATIONS: Jewish Culture in the Light of the World series | 00:58:56

"Stories Make the World" is an hour-long audio documentary celebrating the rich tradition of Jewish storytelling within the context of storytelling from cultures around the world.

Jews & Blues: Inside Out

From Inside Out Documentaries | 01:02:30

The story of how Jewish and African-American music came to be mingled is the story of how the soundtrack of the American Century came to be written.

Half-Hour (24:00-30:00)

Andy Statman's Journey

From Jon Kalish | 00:27:47

"Andy Statman's Journey" takes listeners on a musicial and spiritual odyssey with the New York virtuoso who has been wowing bluegrass, klezmer and jazz audiences for 40 years.

RN Documentary: Family Mystery, Family Myth

From Radio Netherlands Worldwide | Part of the RN Documentaries series | 00:29:30

In Family Mystery, Family Myth, Jonathan Groubert travels from Holland to the US, England and Poland in search of the truth behind his family's emigration from Poland at the turn of the 20th century.

Rabbi Abulafia's Boxed Set

From Jon Kalish | 00:26:42

For more than two years in the 1950s, avant-garde ethno-musicologist Harry Smith recorded a Lower East Side Rabbi's cantorial music, folk songs and Yiddish story-telling. The Rabbi's eccentric grandson, 82-year-old Lionel Ziprin, is hoping to re-release a condensed version of this material.

RN Documentary: The Jewish Genealogist

From Radio Netherlands Worldwide | Part of the RN Documentaries series | 00:29:29

Jonathan Groubert speaks with Dutchwoman Petje Schroeder a Jewish genealogist in the Polish city of Lodz.

Little Odessa in Brooklyn

From Helen Borten | Part of the A Sense of Place series | 00:29:29

Little Odessa in Brooklyn is about the Russian Jews who survived pogroms and purges and brought humor, music and vitality to Brighton Beach, from its heyday in the 20s, 30s and 40s to the present day.

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Queens of Bollywood

From Eric Molinsky | 00:07:44

Rose. Sulochana. Nadira. From the earliest years of Bollywood, these and other Jewish actresses garnered starring roles.

Roots of the Frozen Chosen

From Rebecca Sheir | 00:05:29

Speed-kibitzing with the second Jewish baby ever born in Fairbanks, Alaska.

The Black Jews of Chicago

From Eric Molinsky | 00:07:32

At least forty thousand African Americans are practicing Jews who believe that the religion is part of their heritage. Eric Molinsky visited Beth Shalom B'Nai Zaken in Chicago to find out from Rabbi Capers Funnye and his congregants how they practice their faith, and what led them to it.

Crypto-Jews

From Dmae Roberts | 00:05:17

Crypto-Jews or Hidden Jews are Jews forced to adopt other religions and political philosophies while maintaining Jewish practices.

The Itinerant Rabbi

From Philip Graitcer | 00:05:39

An Itinerant Rabbi ministers to congregations in small Southern towns.

Drop-Ins (2:00-4:59)

Jews and the generation gap

From Next Generation Radio | Part of the NPR's Next Generation Radio series | 00:04:45

Jewish identity across generations.

The Prince of Kosher Gospel

From Alex Goldmark | 00:04:13

First person vignette with music.

Segments (9:00-23:59)

Holy Land Tour

From Jake Warga | 00:13:27

A personal tour through the Holy Land, looking at how the conflict started and what it's like today between Jerusalem and Bethlehem...between birth and re-birth.

Also a slideshow:
http://hearingvoices.com/news/2009/12/holy-land-tour/
or
http://vimeo.com/8037836

I'm a Jew

From Tali Singer | 00:06:34

Devorah Spilman tells the story of how she became an observant Jew.