Kastner Trial: The Weight of a Choice

Unpacking Israeli History

Unpacked

Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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UIH survey here: https://jewishunpacked.com/uihsurvey ~~~~ It’s January of 1954 and the Attorney General v. Gruenwald case, AKA the Kastner trial, has begun. This was seemingly an open and shut libel case between an elderly Hungarian Jew and Israeli government official, Israel Rudolph Kastner. Yet somehow the trial caused a government fallout, brought David Ben-Gurion out of retirement and led to Israel’s first political assassination. In this episode, Noam explores what exactly Kastner was guilty of and how to grapple with the impossible choices he faced at the hands of the Nazis. ~~~~ This season of Unpacking Israeli History is generously sponsored by Barbara Sommer & Alan Fisher, and Marci & Andrew Spitzer, and this episode is generously sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York, and the Tampa Jewish Federation. ~~~~ Learn more about Unpacked: https://jewishunpacked.com/about/ Visit Unpacked on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/unpacked Unpacking Israeli History about Black Saturday: https://jewishunpacked.com/black-saturday-how-far-would-you-go-for-a-homeland/ ~~~~ Bibliography: https://jewishunpacked.com/the-kastner-trial-why-a-jew-who-saved-many-was-put-on-trial-for-working-with-the-nazis/

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Noam Weisman, and you're listening to unpacking Israeli history, the
0:05.0	podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most intense, historically
0:09.5	fascinating and often misunderstood events and stories linked to Israeli history.
0:16.6	This season of unpacking Israeli history is generously sponsored by Barbara Summer and
0:21.0	Alan Fisher, Anne Marcy and Andrew Alan Fisher, and
0:24.3	this episode is generously sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York and
0:29.3	the Tampa Jewish Federation.
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0:44.0	I'm a machine.
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0:49.0	a lot of
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0:52.0	you will be here is well We the people of Israel are Israel.
0:55.0	We, the people of Israel, are prepared and anxious to meet the representatives of our
1:02.4	neighbors without any preconditions.
1:05.2	There are people in Israel and elsewhere
1:09.1	say it's impossible to make peace within the Arabs in Israel or the Jewish people.
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1:18.8	I'm not strictly a historian, but since I play one on this podcast and I did major in history, thank you very much,
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