The Great Debate Around German Reparations

Unpacking Israeli History

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Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Begin and Ben Gurion had some epics battles, but one of the biggest ones happened in 1952, as these two Israeli giants battled about whether to take German reparations after the Holocaust. In this episode, Noam looks all the way back at this crazy story, and leaves us asking, who was right? ~~~~ Unpacking Israeli History is generously sponsored by Alan Fisher and Barbara Sommer, and Jon and Rachie Teller. ~~~~ Learn more about Unpacked: https://jewishunpacked.com/about/ Visit Unpacked on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/unpacked See the full season of Unpacking Israeli History here: https://jewishunpacked.com/podcast-series/unpacking-israeli-history/ ~~~~ Sources https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/ta-nehisi-coates-reparations.html https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/67de380e-8b71-412c-8d06-70af9b31da25 https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/displaced-persons/daily2.htm https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-breaks-50-year-record-for-most-rainfall-613693 tastecooking.com/truth-israeli-couscous/ https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/144226014.pdf https://www.npr.org/2019/03/07/700356426/thousands-of-israelis-now-call-berlin-home-and-make-their-cultural-mark https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/labor-and-internment-camps-in-north-africa https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110255386.100/html http://auschwitz.org/en/history/punishments-and-executions/ https://blog.nli.org.il/en/reparations-agreement/ https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/28248/1001729.pdf?sequence=1 https://www.aicgs.org/2019/11/the-september-1952-reparations-agreement-between-west-germany-and-israel-the-beginning-of-a-remarkable-friendship/ https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/german-holocaust-reparations Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel's Soul, by Danny Gordis Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel, Anita Shapira ~~~~ Unpacked is a division of OpenDor Media

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Noam Weisman, and you're listening to unpacking Israeli history, the
0:04.4	podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most intense, historically fascinating
0:09.4	and often misunderstood events and stories linked to Israeli history.
0:13.2	Unpacking Israeli history is generously sponsored by Alan Fisher and Barbara Summer and
0:17.6	John and Rachel Teller.
0:19.2	Before we start, I want to tell you about one of our other podcasts from Unpacked. You got to listen to it. It's called
0:23.8	nice Jewish girls and each week my colleague Julia Jassie she was on CNN you got
0:28.6	check her out. Interviews a different powerhouse Jewish woman. We're talking politicians, writers, activists.
0:34.8	You name her, Julia is talking to her.
0:37.2	She's learning her story and getting to know who is this woman and why does she
0:41.0	matter to me, to us and to the world?
0:43.5	The conversations are awesome,
0:45.8	and I walk away excited and inspired about our future.
0:49.0	Most for the age when my daughter's Leana and Nisah
0:51.6	and yes, my son, A Y Yal will be able to listen.
0:54.6	Subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Okay, Yala, let's do this. We the people of Israel are prepared and anxious.
1:07.0	We, the people of Israel are Israel.
1:11.0	We, the people of Israel, are prepared and anxious to meet the representatives of our neighbors without any preconditions.
1:20.0	There are people in Israel and elsewhere.
1:24.0	Say it's impossible to make peace between the Arabs and Israel or the Jewish people.
1:29.0	I think they are home.
1:30.0	In 2014, the writer Tanahasikots wrote a piece published in the business section of the
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