Season 1, Episode 4 I Was a Youth

Written by Anna Margolin
An American Yiddish female poet adopts the voice of anti-Semitism from Greco-Roman times.
Click here to read and download the text of “I Was a Youth.”
Written by Anna Margolin
An American Yiddish female poet adopts the voice of anti-Semitism from Greco-Roman times.
Click here to read and download the text of “I Was a Youth.”
This tale of a simple Jew prompts us to reconsider the nature of trust, deceit, and faith.
This story explores the torments of a boy emerging into puberty in the pre-modern Orthodox Jewish world.
This coming-of-age story features a boy emerging into a world that is sometimes unfair, cruel, and fatal to Jews.
An explicitly Zionist sermon complicates the question of how best to make the case for Zionism.
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