Natan Meir | Jewish Cultural Resistance to the Holocaust

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Natan Meir, professor and chair of the Judaic Studies department at Portland State University, joins us to discuss the ways in which Jews nonviolently resisted the Nazis. Natan holds his Ph.D in Jewish history from Columbia University. His research has focused on the social and cultural history of East European Jewry, Modern European Jewish history and he teaches an in-depth course on the Shtetl, the Jewish market town of Eastern Europe. In our interview, we discuss the impact of nonviolent resistance and what forms that resistance took. We discuss the use of music as a means of retaining cultural identity, boosting morale and we look at the legacy of this cultural resistance. Music in this episode: Adrienne Cooper - Friling Adrienne Cooper - Mazel-On a Heym Adrienne Cooper - Mues, Mues Adrienne Cooper - Fun Der Arbet For more on the music of the Shoah visit: http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/ https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/music/