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In the first part of this story we heard from Uliana Bazar who, with her husband, Matthew Propert, left their home in Ukraine five hours before th...
- Added: Oct 16, 2023
- Length: 24:18
Nearly a quarter of Israel’s population gathered to watch the 20th anniversary military parade in a newly unified Jerusalem. We’re taken back to th...
- Added: Jun 15, 2022
- Length: 11:21
Why is a Nazi resistance fighter famous in Brazil yet unheard of in Germany? How did an African American musician become a hero in East Germany? Di...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 1
From the top of Tell El-Ful, an abandoned hilltop in East Jerusalem, you can see all the way from Amman to Tel Aviv, from Jerusalem to Ramallah. An...
- Added: May 18, 2022
- Length: 01:08:41
When neighbors Steve Gray and Anat Harrel of Kibbutz Hanaton in the Upper Galilee lost their jobs as tour guides due to the pandemic, they decided ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2022
- Length: 36:04
Dr. Lidar Sapir-Hen of Tel Aviv University introduces us to a celebrity piglet. Discovered in a Jerusalem home from the 8th century BCE, it challen...
- Added: Feb 24, 2022
- Length: 08:46
By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...
Bought by HowSound and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 15, 2021
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 2
Since World War II, there have been countless American GIs stationed at military bases all over Germany. Sylvia Cunningham and Monika Müller-Kroll ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 28:52
- Purchases: 1
Historically, New Orleans is a cultural, spiritual and ethnic melting pot. In the streets, you immediately come across signs of French, Caribbean, ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO
- Added: Sep 04, 2019
- Length: 13:32
- Purchases: 2
Arianna Skibell takes us to Battir, a pastoral village about three kilometers southwest of Jerusalem. Over the centuries, the serene landscape has ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 27, 2019
- Length: 19:16
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, producer Katie Davis profiles German-American photographer Volkmar Wentzel who was born in Dresden, Germany in 1915 before moving ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 12:31
- Purchases: 1
Hop on board Berlin’s Ringbahn, a suburban train that carries over 400,000 passengers each day and circles some of the city’s most authentic and li...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 05, 2019
- Length: 23:41
- Purchases: 1
In the historic city of Magdeburg, Germany, there is a Johnny Cash themed country music festival called Nashville Days – complete with corndogs and...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 27, 2019
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 2
Between 1820 and World War I, nearly six million Germans immigrated to the US – in 2017, only about 5,000 made the trip. If Germans aren’t coming t...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 06, 2019
- Length: 19:17
- Purchases: 1
Coffee is more than just a beverage – it can be a jumpstart to a day at work or a relaxing afternoon with friends. This episode explores the meanin...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 15:56
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Feb 08, 2019
- Length: 19:49
Just as America is a nation of immigrants, Virginia is a commonwealth of immigrants. For the first time ever the state Department of Historic Res...
- Added: May 22, 2017
- Length: 08:45
When you're forced to leave your home, what traditions do you take with you? A journey with an Afghani kite fighting master.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 30:19
- Purchases: 2
Rabin is a symbol. An icon. But in Israel of 2015, twenty years after the Prime Minister's murder, it isn't so simple to understand what the reall...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 01:05:56
The Aleppo Codex is a thousand year-old manuscript that medieval scholars declared an accurate biblical text. It has been worshiped, pillaged, salv...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 17:18
In a remote corner of Tel Aviv's grimy, labyrinthine central bus station, Mendy Cahan has built a home for Israel's rejected Yiddish books, and it'...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 16:05
It’s the sixty-fifth time we’ve gotten together for a half-hour of top-notch entertainment!
Need we say more?
Okay, if you insist.
This episode we ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2013
- Length: 28:02
Dividing cells are what make up all life. The idea of cell division was first published in 1855, but for nearly a century scientists debated, “How?...
Bought by Listenwise and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 11, 2012
- Length: 07:33
- Purchases: 2
- Added: May 28, 2008
- Length: 28:39
