A podcast about the history of New York City.
Attention Surplus
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Podcast Overview
A podcast about the history of New York City.
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9/26/2021
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March 5, 2022
Jewish New York, Part III: Sweatshops, Settlement Houses, Secularism, and Socialism
The mass migration from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the slums of New York uprooted centuries-old patterns of Jewish life, so it's only natural that Jewish culture also underwent a massive shift. As young Jews left the tight-knit communities of the shtetls behind for the great big world of the cities, Orthodox Judaism faded away and secular Yiddish culture blossomed. As Jews confronted the harsh realities of industrial capitalism in New York, socialism replaced religion as the great hope to end the suffering of the Jewish people. In this episode, I'll explore the vibrant cultural, political, and intellectual life of the Lower East Side as it became the center of America's socialist movement. I'll take you into the shoes of the garment workers, often teenage girls who didn't speak a word of English, as they put this theory into practice and stood up for their dignity as working women.
January 18, 2022
Jewish New York, Part II: The Refugee Crisis
For centuries, the majority of the world's Jews had lived in small towns called shtetls in the countryside of Eastern Europe. These were isolated, tight-knit communities where the Torah reigned supreme. By the late 19th century, dissatisfaction had been growing among younger Jews about the poverty, the antisemitism, the lack of opporunity, and the narrow-mindedness of the shtetls. Then, in 1881, a series of violent pogroms broke out in Ukraine, forcing thousands of Jews to flee first to major cities nearby and then to America. This exodus only picked up steam in the coming decades as the long-simmering desire to leave the shtetls boiled over. In total, more than three million Jews fled Eastern Europe between 1881 and 1914, and the bulk of them ended up in New York City. Here, they were crammed into tiny tenements where they worked long hours sewing garments to stay alive. In this episode, I'll attempt to humanize this story by giving a detailed account of what the journey to America, and the new lives the immigrants established there, were like.
December 4, 2021
Jewish New York, Part I: Birth of an Aristocracy
This is part one of a series about the incredibly multifacted history of Jewish immigration to NYC, each episode focusing on a different facet. In this episode, I talk about the oldest and most successful part of America's Jewish population: German Jews who immigrated in the mid-19th century. Join me as I follow these immigrants from the ghettos of Germany to the tenements of Little Germany to the luxurious apartments of the Upper West Side.
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