IN Jewish History

Dr. Susan Hyatt, the Chair of Anthropology at IUPUI, discusses how marginalized groups of African Americans and Sephardic Jews bonded in Indianapolis. The two communities were dispersed after the South Side of Indianapolis was torn down to make way for a highway system. To save the History of this unique integrated community, Dr. Hyatt discusses how she learned about its History. And how she worke...

On the occasion of her lifetime membership to the Indiana Jewish Historical Society, Judy Weitzman discusses growing up in the greater Lafayette area discussing her family's early contributions to Purdue University and her time becoming a board member of Purdue Hillel when the organization was in a time of transition. Funding Support for the IN-Jewish History Podcast came from the Leonard &amp...

Peter Plotke speaks of his father, Frank Plotke, a Rabbi who fled from Nazi Germany, and discusses how his family was rescued from the Holocaust. After a few different American Pulpets, Peter Plotke's family finally settled in Hammond. Later, Peter went to Indiana University, where he was one of the founding members of the AEPI Jewish Fraternity at IU.  Funding Support for the IN-Jewish Histor...

In our first episode, we go on a historical journey with Dr. Hasia Diner Paul, And Sylvia Steinberg, Professor of American Jewish History at NYU. Who joins us to speak about the Jewish Peddlers who changed how Americans shopped. Then, going a little deeper, we learn about how a Jewish Peddler from Bavaria named Adam Gimbel started a retail empire from his first shop In Vincennes, Indiana. Finally,...