Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza

The Rise of Eastern European Jewry (1x23)

Air date: Dec 19, 2005

Jews begin migrating to Poland in the 14th and 15th centuries. With few economic restrictions, they assume diversified economic roles for the Polish nobility and king, and Ashkenazic rabbinical scholarship reaches unsurpassed heights in the receptive political and social climate of Eastern Europe.