The Making of ‘"Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited’
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
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🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:17.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to Potomac Watch, the Daily Opinion Podcast of the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Paul Geego editor of those opinion pages. |
| 0:32.0 | And today we have a special show on a historic look at |
| 0:35.1 | anti-Semitism in America and the Crown Heights Riot in New York. Though the |
| 0:40.5 | Riot occurred in 1991 it has continuing relevance given the events of the last year on American college campuses and elsewhere in the United States |
| 0:49.6 | The ride is the subject of a new documentary published by a partnership between |
| 0:53.6 | Wall Street Journal Opinion and Palladium Pictures which is the company of |
| 0:58.0 | documentary producers Michael and Gina Pack. This is the first of what we expect to be a series of short |
| 1:04.8 | documentaries by this partnership as we look to tell stories and relate our |
| 1:09.7 | journalism to audiences in new ways and across multiple platforms. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm joined today by Michael Pac, as well as by Elliot Kaufman, |
| 1:19.4 | my colleague on the editorial page, |
| 1:21.2 | we took another look at the Riot on its anniversary and is featured in the documentary, which is entitled |
| 1:27.5 | Get the Jew, The Crown Heights Riot revisited, the phrase get the Jew coming directly from the documentary as a quote |
| 1:36.2 | heard during the Riot. |
| 1:38.6 | Michael and Elliot welcome good to have you both here. |
| 1:42.0 | Thanks for joining me. So Michael, why Crown Heights now? |
| 1:45.8 | Well, Paul, I think you set it up pretty well in your introduction. I mean, there's a new wave of |
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