Episode 156 William Seward and Jerusalem

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. 

In the late 1800s, Naftali Herz Imber wrote the poem that would inspire Israel's national anthem. 

The founder of the Zionist movement emerges from the anti-Semitic culture of Vienna.