Episode 154 Mark Twain in the Holy Land

Visiting the land of Israel, the American author was not impressed. If only he could see it today.
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Visiting the land of Israel, the American author was not impressed. If only he could see it today.
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Meet Emmanuel Deutsch, the man who inspired one of the most important Zionist novels in history.
In 1870, Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State took a journey to the holy land. What did he find there?
A hasidic rabbi begs the American president and Union general to help the Jews of Jerusalem.
An 1882 Passover night in Jerusalem helps illuminate the nature of Jewish memory.
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