Judaism: Kristallnacht and the birth of Israel
Following "The Night of Broken Glass," the world reacted with horror...and did nothing. So began the Holocaust. Who could have foreseen, at that low ebb of Judaism, that just ten years later a Jewish state, Israel, would finally be born? It was a vi...
World War II: the road to war
This program chronicles the global events that ultimately led to U.S. action in World War II. Discussion points include Hitler and the Nazi Party, fascism in Italy, and Communism under Stalin; British appeasement and American isolationism; blitzkrie...
A history of Jewish American achievement: Jewish Americans and World War II
The darkest period of Jewish American life - the Holocaust and World War II - is examined in this fifth program of Jewish American achievement spanning 1939-1945. The selection of Bess Myerson as the first Jewish Miss America revealed a growing acce...