Season 1, Episode 6 The Calf

Written by Mendele Mocher Sforim

This story of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) explores the torments of a boy emerging into puberty in the pre-modern Orthodox Jewish world. It touches on themes of the natural world of biology, science, and “animal rights.”

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