Gil Troy on "Never Alone"
The Tikvah Podcast
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4.6 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Prisoner of Zion, human-rights activist, member of Knesset, chairman of the Jewish Agency. Lecturer, author, inspiration to millions. In his 72 years on earth, Natan Sharansky has lived several lifetimes. And in his latest book, Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People, he partners with the historian Gil Troy to reflect on the lessons he has learned throughout a life that’s taken him from the Gulag to the halls of Israel’s parliament.
In this podcast, Gil Troy joins Jonathan Silver for a conversation about his partnership with Sharansky, the Israel-Diaspora relationship, the Sovietization of American culture, and much more.
Musical selections in this podcast are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble.
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| 0:00.0 | Natanzhryansky is a hero of the modern world. |
| 0:12.0 | Persecuted and imprisoned by the KGB for his Jewish and Zionist beliefs, he fueled a worldwide pressure campaign to free the Jews of the Soviet Union. Upon making Aliyah, |
| 0:22.2 | Sharansky eventually went into politics and served for nearly a decade in the Knesset. |
| 0:28.0 | And then, as the capstone of his public career, he's tried to strengthen the bonds of identity |
| 0:33.2 | between Israel and the Jewish diaspora, prisoner of Zion, human rights activist, member of the |
| 0:40.0 | Knesset, chairman of the Jewish agency, writer, Inspiration to Millions. The Tikva Fund awarded him |
| 0:47.3 | its inaugural Herzl Prize in 2018. Welcome to the Tikva podcast. I'm your host, Jonathan Silver. In his 72 years, Natanzhryansky |
| 0:57.7 | has lived lifetimes. His latest book presents what he's learned, told through the stories that make |
| 1:03.1 | up his remarkable career. Never Alone, Prison, Politics, and My People, was co-authored with |
| 1:09.6 | my guest today, the historian and Zionist writer |
| 1:12.7 | Gil Troy, himself author or editor of over a dozen books, including The Zionist Ideas, a recent |
| 1:19.4 | volume that collects primary sources from the history of Zionism. In recording and broadcasting |
| 1:24.9 | this discussion with Gil, may I say, as an aside aside that the Tikva podcast is now joining some very distinguished company indeed. |
| 1:32.7 | For we are now one of only a very small number of institutions that has published all three Troy brothers, having previously spoken with Daniel Troy about his commentary essay, The Burial Society, and with longtime friend |
| 1:46.2 | of the Tikva Fund, Tevi Troy, about the politics of Tubeshvat. If you enjoy this conversation, |
| 1:52.1 | you can subscribe to the Tikva podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. I hope you'll |
| 1:57.9 | leave us a five-star review to help us grow this community of ideas. |
| 2:02.2 | I welcome your feedback on this or any of our other podcast episodes at podcast at ticfund.org. |
| 2:08.9 | And of course, if you want to learn more about our work at Tikva, you can visit our website, |
| 2:13.7 | tikfafund.org, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. |
| 2:17.6 | And now, to discuss the newly published book he co-authored with Natan Sharanki, |
| 2:22.7 | here is my conversation with Gil Troy. |
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