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Unholy: Two Jews on the News

The Escape Artist - with Jonathan Freedland!

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Unholy Media

News, Society & Culture

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week's guest is someone Unholy listeners are quite familiar with - our very own co-host (and bestselling author) Jonathan Freedland! In this episode, Yonit gives him the tried and tested interviewee treatment as they discuss his new book, The Escape Artist, which details the all but unknown story of Rudolf Vrba. Vrba is one of only four Jews to escape Auschwitz, and is credited with publishing a detailed report on the atrocities being perpetrated behind barbed wire, a report which led to halting the deportations of Hungarian Jews, ultimately saving tens of thousands of lives. In other matters - is an Unholy episode ever complete without Israeli political drama? We continue to follow the slow-motion train wreck that is the Bennett coalition - who might not hold on to the reigns long enough to greet President Joe Biden when he arrives in Israel in less than a month. Plus, these two prime ministers have seen their fair share of courtrooms, but now they meet in the same one, head to head, and it's the best show in town.  -- Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unholypodcast/and X: https://x.com/2jewsonthenewsJoin our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150578065793142 Subscribe to our blog: https://unholypodcast.substack.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Yonite Levi of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.

0:15.2

And I'm Jonathan Friedland, of The Guardian in London.

0:18.8

And we are unholy from Keshe Podcasts to Jews on the News.

0:21.6

Today on our program, special guest Jonathan Friedland will be...

0:25.6

How did we get him?

0:26.6

Oh, that was tough.

0:27.6

It was tough.

0:28.6

A little bit of coercion was involved, but he finally agreed.

0:32.6

You got quite the contacts book to get that guy to agree to come on this show.

0:36.6

That's amazing.

0:38.0

Don't get me started.

0:39.0

He's intransigent.

0:40.3

But he will be able to answer the age-old question.

0:44.0

Is it better to be a guest on Unholy or a co-host?

0:47.3

Not one I've wrestled with before, but now I'm going to get to see that from both sides.

0:53.2

So that is coming up. our conversation about the escape artist.

0:56.7

I'm very excited about this.

0:57.7

This will be coming up later in our program.

1:01.5

I should be telling you that many, many years ago when Yerlipid was still a late-night talk show host,

1:08.0

he had this prominent question. He would always ask his guests. It became more of a

1:14.8

cliche over the years. He would always say, what is, in Hebrew, it's maisre libe in your eyes. How would you

1:21.6

define being Israeli? And you would have all kinds of answers to this. I suppose that, you know,

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