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Touring Through History

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast
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JL;DR SUMMARY The hosts of the Commentary Magazine Podcast discuss their favorite historical sites around the world, offering a mix of Jewish and general historical perspectives. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Jewish History  Barcelona  Civil War  City Of David  Historical Sites  Lexington Common  Francis Tavern  Pompeii  Gettysburg  Battlefields 

Places mentioned

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
"I actually, we'll combine Jewish history with just sort of general history and talk about what you can find in Barcelona and especially the one that sticks out the most to me and I think to a lot of people is the ancient mikveh, the ritual bath, is underneath a cafe."
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
"The first is Fort Sumter, which you can visit by taking a ferry from Charleston in South Carolina."
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
"The second site I'd mentioned was also related to the U S of war. And that's Gettysburg of course, the turning point of the war and easily an easy trip from Washington, DC, or even New York City..."
Antietam, Maryland, United States
"I had a similar experience 40 years ago now, probably going to the battlefield of Antietam, which is, which is an hour from, yeah, I've never been to Antietam."
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"Went to a a birthday party for somebody in suburban Boston and we were staying at something called the nice uh in outside Boston called the Lexington Inn."
Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
"It turned we went for a walk in the morning and it turned out that we were near Lexington Common which is the which was the place where the American revolutionary war began 250 years ago where the first right where the first right..."
New Jersey, United States
"So when I was a local newspaper reporter earlier in my career the the first big scoop I ever had was they were trying to um renew a train line a passenger train line from you know south through north Jersey which they used to have if you go around New Jersey you see old tracks that just aren't used anymore."
Manassas, Virginia, United States
"Which was of course where the civil war began the first real battle the first real battle of the civil war and the um and I remember you know being a sort of a someone who believed in economic progress and thought that nimbyism was terrible and all of this that that these people were crazy there was a huge protest at the idea of building this site adjacent to manassas."
New York, United States
"And I'm talking about Francis Tavern very interesting place sort of nothing else like it f-r-a-u-n-c-e-s tavern and it's in the financial district."
Pompeii, Campania, Italy
"Which I visited last December uh is Pompeii if you are in Italy and you can figure out how to spend a day at Pompeii it is more than you expect it is more stunning and astonishing than you would think."
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