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Travel with Rick Steves

361 Remembering the Titanic; Jewish Prague; Global Peacebuilding

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

Rick Steves, Public Radio, 721132, Europe, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Npr, Travel

4.32.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Learn how Ireland is displaying its connections with the infamous Titanic — in Belfast, where it was built, and in County Cork, its final port of call. We'll also explore the historic synagogues and neighborhoods of Prague, once home to Europe's largest Jewish population. And we'll meet a woman who's been helping former enemies make peace in a number of the world's hot spots.

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It's a community that was nearly wiped out not so long ago, but Prague still has a resilient Jewish population living among the historic sites of that great city.

0:10.0

They survived the century, survived Hitler, survived communists as well, and they still going

0:16.3

and they still have services.

0:18.0

Today on Travel with Rick Steve's guides from the Czech Republic introduce us to the Jewish sites of Prague.

0:24.0

We'll also meet a woman who specializes in helping neighbors learn to live together

0:28.0

after surviving some of the world's most notorious conflicts.

0:32.0

They are part of one community. they live next to each other, but their relationships

0:36.9

were totally shattered by a very brutal war.

0:40.7

And a guide from Belfast tells us how her community has started to remember the legacy of the Titanic.

0:46.0

It was launched from that city's shipyards just a little over a hundred years ago.

0:50.0

If you're going to blame somebody for Titanic, I blame the Captain.

0:52.5

He didn't take control of the situation.

0:54.6

Set sail with us for the hour ahead.

0:56.5

It's Travel with Rick Steves.

0:58.6

Hi, I'm Rick Steves.

1:01.3

Coming up on today's Travel with Rickeeves, we're exploring the many sites

1:04.8

that tell the Jewish history of Old Town Prague. And a psychologist who founded a center

1:10.0

for peace building shares what she faces in helping the residents of war-torn

1:14.4

communities all around the world rebuild after years of conflict and loss.

1:19.7

Despite all they've been through in recent years, the people of Belfast in Northern Ireland

1:24.0

would rather forget about April 15, 1912.

1:28.2

That's the date the Titanic sink in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage to New York, just less than two weeks from the day

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