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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: The Pen and the Sword in the Warsaw Ghetto
Description: A virtual event presentation by Dr. David I. Bernstein
ABOUT THE EVENT:
Mordechai Anilewicz was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the spring of 1943. Yet alongside him in the ghetto was another Jewish leader, Emmanuel Ringleblum, who chose the pen over the sword. Two heroes, two different kinds of heroism, for their own time and place — and beyond.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr, David I. Bernstein is the Dean of the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. Previously he was the Director of Midreshet Lindenbaum. He has a BA and MA in History and a Ph.D...