Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Brief discussion of the survival of the Mir Yeshiva during the Second World War. Research in preparation for the Kosher River Cruise to Japan, June 2026. For more information please visit kosherrivercruise.com.
Article referenced in this video: Rotem Kowner, "The Mir Yeshiva's Holocaust Experience: Ultra-Orthodox Perspectives on Japanese Wartime Attitudes towards Jewish Refugees," Holocaust and Genocide Studies 36:3 (Winter 2022), pp. 295-314.
Also mentioned, forthcoming on August 5: Samuel Schwarz, Discovering the Crypto-Jews of Portugal, with an Introduction and Notes by Henry Abramson, New York: Sam Sapozhnik, 2025.
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Brief discussion of the survival of the Mir Yeshiva during the Second World War. Research in preparation for the Kosher River Cruise to Japan, June 2026. For more information please visit kosherrivercruise.com.
Article referenced in this video: Rotem Kowner, "The Mir Yeshiva's Holocaust Experience: Ultra-Orthodox Perspectives on Japanese Wartime Attitudes towards Jewish Refugees," Holocaust and Genocide Studies 36:3 (Winter 2022), pp. 295-314.
Also mentioned, forthcoming on August 5: Samuel Schwarz, Discovering the Crypto-Jews of Portugal, with an Introduction and Notes by Henry Abramson, New York: Sam Sapozhnik, 2025.
Interested in studying more deeply? Join our learning community of students, researchers and colleagues by becoming a Channel Member: youtube.com/channel/UCeNr6gwqin_7e_atjVnJcCQ/join
My day job: I'm the Dean of Lander College for Men, Touro University. It's an amazing place. If you want to support my students, that would be fantastic: click here and be sure to leave a special note for me so I can thank you properly! https://lcm.touro.edu/giving/
Online Courses:
Biblical Jewish History: From Abraham to Bar Kochba
Course information and registration here: henryabramson.com/course/biblical-jewish-history
A Thousand Years of Ashkenaz!
Course information and registration here: henryabramson.com/course/a-thousand-years-of-ashkenaz
The Holocaust
Course information and registration here: henryabramson.com/course/the-holocaust
