Heart And Soul: Journey To Ashkenaz
One hundred years ago, most of the world’s Ashkenazic Jews lived in what is today western Ukraine. The Holocaust and then Stalinism wiped that world out.
Presenter Michael Goldfarb’s family traces its roots to this land. In this edition of Heart And Soul he goes on a journey to the heart of Ashkenaz to find traces of their life.
He goes on pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Nachman in Uman with 40,000 ultra-religious Jews from around the world. He also explains the two ways of being a Jew - religious and secular - that grew in this blood-soaked land.
In Odessa, on the Black Sea, where the secular side of his family came from, he finds a city whose Jewish community is being rebuilt on religious lines. In Lviv and the surrounding countryside he visits the village where his grandmother was a girl. And where no single Jew lives today.
A Certain Height Production for 主播大秀 World Service.
- Presented by Michael Goldfarb
- Produced by Julia Hayball
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