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New PBS series examines bittersweet ties that have historically bound US Blacks and Jews

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:24:37 +0000

For Black History Month, docuseries 'Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History' parses what has unified and divided the communities, amid today's renewed tensions

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America’s complicated Black-Jewish story gets an update in new four-part PBS series

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:02:06 +0000

Docuseries featuring Henry Louis Gates, Michael Twitty, and more explores overlapping, parallel moments in the histories of Black and Jewish Americans over the past five centuries

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How Hannah Arendt faced down tyranny in the US, far from Eichmann’s Jerusalem trial

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:40:00 +0000

New documentary airing June 27 in the US on PBS explores how the Jewish writer and activist brought lessons from WWII Germany to McCarthy-era America -- and draws a modern-day parallel

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Lena Dunham discovers familial connection to Holocaust on TV show

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 05:07:48 +0000

'Girls' creator learns her great-great-great uncle survived the Holocaust, but his daughter was likely killed in Nazi massacre at Kamianets-Podilskyi; Michael Douglas also features

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In PBS series ‘Little Bird,’ a Jewish woman uncovers her traumatic Indigenous past

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 23:13:44 +0000

Airing weekly in the US through Nov. 16, the show draws on the experiences of co-creator Jennifer Podemski, a victim of the 'Sixties Scoop' torn from her mother's arms

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Clinton-produced ‘How Saba Kept Singing’ tells story of cantor’s Auschwitz survival

Sat, 15 Apr 2023 14:15:00 +0000

PBS documentary, to air on Yom Hashoah, recounts how David Wisnia stayed alive for three years at notorious death camp by entertaining Nazi guards with operatic voice

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David Strathairn plays historic Holocaust witness Jan Karski on TV’s ‘Remember This’

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 02:47:35 +0000

In a one-man-show that aired Monday, the famous character actor tells the story of a Catholic hero who snuck into the Warsaw Ghetto to report the Nazi atrocities there to the world

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Heading to US, Jewish tale ‘Ridley Road’ sees woman infiltrate UK neo-Nazi group

Fri, 29 Apr 2022 23:24:33 +0000

Writer Sarah Solemani: 'We like to think of history as good guys and bad guys. We were the good guys, Hitler was a bad guy, he died and that was the end of it. And it’s not true'

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Finding her roots, reporter Nina Totenberg learns of family Holocaust escape

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 06:33:38 +0000

NPR correspondent hears how her grandmother bolted Europe via Portugal; TV personality Andy Cohen finds out that ancestors came from Pale of Settlement

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Anti-Semitism examined as a social virus in new PBS documentary

Wed, 27 May 2020 01:23:12 +0000

'Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations' looks at how hatred of Jews is treated, and spreads, like a virulent disease, and at how humanity can hope to combat it

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Discovery Channel and PBS to air Holocaust documentaries for Yom Hashoah

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 23:49:46 +0000

'Liberation Heroes' profiles US soldiers who liberated concentration camps; 'The Last Survivors' features stories of British-raised survivors

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Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin discovers he’s a quarter Jewish

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 21:04:57 +0000

'You’ve uprooted my worldview,' says author on PBS’ celebrity genealogy show 'Finding Your Roots' as he discovers he is 22.4 percent Ashkenazi Jew

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PBS documentary reminds Americans of their ties that bind — not gag

Tue, 27 Feb 2018 02:31:40 +0000

In 'American Creed,' San Francisco filmmaker Sam Ball examines different ways people keep the country's founding ideals alive in a time of extreme political polarization

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CBS fires Charlie Rose after sexual misconduct allegations

Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:25:24 +0000

3 women accuse the veteran reporter of groping them, walking around naked in front of them

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Scarlett Johansson learns of family Holocaust tragedy from genealogy show

Sat, 28 Oct 2017 10:44:33 +0000

In forthcoming episode of 'Finding Your Roots,' US Jewish actress tearfully finds out her great uncle and his family perished in the Warsaw Ghetto

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