About this episode
Begin and Ben Gurion had some epics battles, but one of the biggest ones happened in 1952, as these two Israeli giants battled about whether to take German reparations after the Holocaust. In this episode, Noam looks all the way back at this crazy story, and leaves us asking, who was right? ~~~~ Unpacking Israeli History is generously sponsored by Alan Fisher and Barbara Sommer, and Jon and Rachie Teller. ~~~~ Learn more about Unpacked: https://jewishunpacked.com/about/ Visit Unpacked on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/unpacked See the full season of Unpacking Israeli History here: https://jewishunpacked.com/podcast-series/unpacking-israeli-history/ ~~~~ Sources https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/ta-nehisi-coates-reparations.html https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/67de380e-8b71-412c-8d06-70af9b31da25 https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/displaced-persons/daily2.htm https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-breaks-50-year-record-for-most-rainfall-613693 tastecooking.com/truth-israeli-couscous/ https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/144226014.pdf https://www.npr.org/2019/03/07/700356426/thousands-of-israelis-now-call-berlin-home-and-make-their-cultural-mark https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/labor-and-internment-camps-in-north-africa https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110255386.100/html http://auschwitz.org/en/history/punishments-and-executions/ https://blog.nli.org.il/en/reparations-agreement/ https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/28248/1001729.pdf?sequence=1 https://www.aicgs.org/2019/11/the-september-1952-reparations-agreement-between-west-germany-and-israel-the-beginning-of-a-remarkable-friendship/ https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/german-holocaust-reparations Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel's Soul , by Danny Gordis Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel , Anita Shapira ~~~~ Unpacked is a division of OpenDor Media