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Black and Jewish chef, writer, educator and food historian Michael W. Twitty sits at the head of the table at an interfaith seder attended by members of the Black and Jewish communities in this undated photo. (Courtesy of Sara Wolitzky)
February 11, 2026, 4:24 am
New PBS series examines bittersweet ties that have historically bound US Blacks and Jews
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
By Rich Tenorio
Historian and host Henry Louis Gates Jr. attends a seder in “Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History.” (McGee Media via JTA)
February 3, 2026, 10:02 am
America’s complicated Black-Jewish story gets an update in new four-part PBS series
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
By Jackie Hajdenberg
German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt (Courtesy)
June 27, 2025, 5:40 pm
How Hannah Arendt faced down tyranny in the US, far from Eichmann’s Jerusalem trial
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
By Rich Tenorio
Lena Dunham attends the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts American Songbook Gala at Alice Tully Hall in New York on May 29, 2018. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
March 30, 2024, 8:07 am
Lena Dunham discovers familial connection to Holocaust on TV show
‘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
By jacob gurvis
Darla Contois, left, as Esther Rosenblum and Lisa Edelstein as Golda Rosenblum in 'Little Bird.' (Courtesy of Steve Ackerman vi JTA)
November 4, 2023, 1:13 am
In PBS series ‘Little Bird,’ a Jewish woman uncovers her traumatic Indigenous past
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
By Shira Li Bartov
David “Saba” Wisnia in a scene from 'How Saba Kept Singing.' (Retro Report via JTA)
April 15, 2023, 5:15 pm
Clinton-produced ‘How Saba Kept Singing’ tells story of cantor’s Auschwitz survival
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
By Gabe Friedman
David Strathairn (left) in a Georgetown University production of 'Remember This: Walking With Jan Karski.' (Rafael Suanes/Georgetown Univ.)
March 15, 2023, 4:47 am
David Strathairn plays historic Holocaust witness Jan Karski on TV’s ‘Remember This’
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
By Linda Buchwald
Vivien Epstein in a scene from 'Ridley Road,' a four-part series that makes it's US debut May 1 on PBS's 'Masterpiece.' (Video screenshot)
April 30, 2022, 2:24 am
Heading to US, Jewish tale ‘Ridley Road’ sees woman infiltrate UK neo-Nazi group
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’
By Mark Kennedy
Screen capture from video of NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg in an episode of PBS' 'Finding Your Roots.' (JTA)
January 26, 2021, 8:33 am
Finding her roots, reporter Nina Totenberg learns of family Holocaust escape
NPR correspondent hears how her grandmother bolted Europe via Portugal; TV personality Andy Cohen finds out that ancestors came from Pale of Settlement
By Gabe Friedman
Valerie Braham, widow of one of the victims of the Hyper Cacher grocery store shooting in Paris, appears in “Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations.” (PBS via JTA)
May 27, 2020, 4:23 am
Anti-Semitism examined as a social virus in new PBS documentary
‘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
By LAURA PAULL
Holocaust documentary 'The Last Survivors' is produced by the BBC and features British-raised survivors. (YouTube screenshot)
April 26, 2019, 2:49 am
Discovery Channel and PBS to air Holocaust documentaries for Yom Hashoah
‘Liberation Heroes’ profiles US soldiers who liberated concentration camps; ‘The Last Survivors’ features stories of British-raised survivors
By Curt Schleier
George R.R. Martin, left, shown with “Finding Your Roots” host Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was shocked by his DNA test. (Courtesy of McGee Media/Ark Media via JTA)
January 4, 2019, 11:04 pm
Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin discovers he’s a quarter Jewish
‘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
By Curt Schleier
Professors David M. Kennedy and Condoleeza Rice at Stanford University in 'American Creed.' (Courtesy PBS)
February 27, 2018, 4:31 am
PBS documentary reminds Americans of their ties that bind — not gag
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
By Renee Ghert-Zand
In this April 13, 2017 file photo, Charlie Rose attends The Hollywood Reporter's 35 Most Powerful People in Media party in New York (Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)
November 21, 2017, 8:25 pm
CBS fires Charlie Rose after sexual misconduct allegations
3 women accuse the veteran reporter of groping them, walking around naked in front of them
By AP
Actress Scarlett Johansson learns of her family history on the PBS show 'Finding Your Roots,' scheduled to air on October 31, 2017. (screen capture)
October 28, 2017, 1:44 pm
Scarlett Johansson learns of family Holocaust tragedy from genealogy show
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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