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Whoever said history was boring clearly never heard these stories…Welcome to Jewish History Nerds! Join hosts Yael and Schwab each week as they take a dive into some deep cuts of Jewish history. From the Jewish Da Vinci Code to mass suicide pacts, explore true stories that feel larger than life.Be in touch: [email protected]

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Episodes (129)

The Jewish History Hiding in Japan and Korea

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Sep 10, 202654:06completed

How America Changed the Jewish People: Reflections With Dr Henry Abramson

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Sep 3, 202628:26completed

Why Did Sammy Davis Jr. Become Jewish?

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Aug 27, 202652:56pending

Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer: The Jewish Story Behind Hollywood’s First Talkie

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Aug 20, 202657:17pending

The Girl Rabbi of the Golden West: Ray Frank Revisted

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Aug 13, 202648:02pending

How a Plate of Shrimp Changed American Judaism

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Aug 6, 202654:39pending

Anarchism, Feminism...and Judaism? Emma Goldman Revisited

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Jul 30, 202640:29pending

The Statue of Liberty Was Never Meant to Welcome Immigrants: Emma Lazarus

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Jul 23, 202635:15pending

How One Jewish Poet Changed the Meaning of America: Emma Lazarus

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Jul 16, 202641:50pending

The Jews of 1789: Citizens

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Jul 9, 202644:00pending

The Jews of 1776: The American Revolution

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Jul 7, 202639:46pending

Why The First Jews in Colonial America Nearly Vanished

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Jul 2, 202649:35pending

Jewish Pirates and the Caribbean

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Jun 25, 202644:41pending

The First Jews in the Americas: Fleeing the Inquisition to Brazil

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Jun 18, 202649:40pending

Yitzhak Rabin: Not the Peacenik You Think He Was | with Noam Weissman

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Jun 16, 20261:03:00pending

The Real Reason Anne Frank Became a Global Symbol

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Jun 11, 20261:05:14pending

King David: A Divided Heart

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Jun 9, 202653:17pending

New Episodes, Coming Next Week

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Jun 4, 20262:54pending

Voices of the Warsaw Ghetto: A Yom HaShoah Re-Release

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Apr 14, 202637:51failed

The Haggadah: The Book of the People of the Book

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Mar 31, 202640:40failed

Albert Einstein: Was He a Zionist? (Part 2)

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Mar 26, 202650:02failed

Albert Einstein: Rebel. Reject. Genius. (Part 1)

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Mar 19, 202647:27failed

The Girl Rabbi of the Golden West: Ray Frank

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Mar 12, 202643:51failed

Gambling Addict, Renaissance Rabbi? Leone da Modena

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Mar 5, 202644:56pending

The Other Hasidim: Medieval Jews Who Rejected Joy

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Feb 26, 202645:16pending

The Rosenbergs: Atomic Spies or Scapegoats?

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Feb 19, 202649:05pending

She Did What No Jewish Woman Had Done. Then Told Women to Stay Home

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Feb 12, 202641:40pending

Leon Trotsky: The Reluctant Jew Behind the Russian Revolution

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Feb 5, 202647:10pending

Secret Jews: Samuel Schwarz’s Discovery of Portugal’s Crypto-Jews

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Jan 29, 202644:58pending

He Could Have Escaped the Nazis. He Stayed With the Orphans: Janusz Korczak

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Jan 22, 202646:02pending

Jewish History Nerds is BACK!

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Jan 15, 20264:26pending

Revisiting Hebrew Hammer: The True Story of Hannukah

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Dec 18, 202533:34pending

Listener Survey is Here

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Jun 12, 20252:18pending

The JNF Blue Box: How Loose Change Helped Build Israel

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Jun 5, 202553:30pending

The Judensau: The Anti-Jewish Image Still Carved on German Churches

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May 29, 202542:26pending

When Jews Thrived in India: The Cochin Copper Plates

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May 22, 202548:53pending

How Rome Used Coins to Humiliate the Jews

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May 15, 202532:14pending

Rome Stole the Menorah. Where is it Now?

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May 8, 202541:38pending

How One Kid Accidentally Changed Biblical History: Jerusalem's Hidden Scrolls

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May 1, 202536:03pending

The Synagogue Romans Accidentally Preserved for 1,700 Years: Dura Europos

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Apr 24, 202539:47pending

Buried Secrets: Jewish Magic, Demons, and the Babylonian Incantation Bowls

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Apr 17, 202544:56pending

The First Mention of Israel: A Passover Special on the Merneptah Stele

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Apr 10, 202533:23pending

The Star of David: A Symbol That Means Everything—and Nothing

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Apr 4, 202536:58pending

Season 4, Coming Next Week

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Mar 27, 20254:02pending

The Secret Jewish Kingdom of...Yemen?

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Mar 14, 202436:40pending

Bertha Pappenheim: Life Beyond a Diagnosis

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Mar 7, 202437:03pending

Rav Saadia Gaon: In Our Gaonic Era

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Feb 29, 202427:47pending

The Diary of Glikl: Discovering the Exceptional within the Everyday

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Feb 22, 202429:42pending

Revisionist Zionism: Jabotinsky's Journey From Vladimir to Ze'ev

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Feb 15, 202439:21pending

Mystical Hasidism: Hillel Ba'al Shem's Enchanted Journey

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Feb 8, 202435:24pending