The Pioneers

Amalia Bar-Oz never met her great-grandmother. But she knows that great-grandma Hesya was a fighter. That when the pogroms ripped her life apart, she found a new hope in her ancestral homeland…

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Resources:

On Life in the Shtetl and Pogroms in the Russian Empire:

• Article 1, Article 2, Article 3
• Podcast on Kishinev, Video on Kishinev
• Video on Shtetl Life

On Early/Proto-Zionist Movements:

• Article 1, Article 2, Article 3
• Video

On Kibbutzim:

• Video: What Life is Like on an Israeli Kibbutz
• Article 1, 2, 3, 4
• Homepage of the first kibbutz (in Hebrew)

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This show was made possible by support from the Koum Family Foundation, the Crain-Maling Foundation, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, and the Skolnick Family Charitable Trust.