Frozen Jews: Ep. 2

Adventures with Dead Jews by Tablet Magazine

Sep 10, 202151:00Religion & Spirituality

In this episode, Dara Horn explores the bizarre afterlife of a chance encounter that later caused an entire empire to lose its mind. In 1904, the American Jewish financier Jacob Schiff randomly met a Japanese banker at a...

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