Yehuda Geberer: What's the History of the American Yeshiva World? [American Yeshiva World 3/3]
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In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we speak with Yehuda Geberer—a researcher, educator, and tour guide—about the history of the yeshiva world.
In this episode we discuss:
Interview begins at 22:43.
Yehuda Geberer is a Jewish history researcher, educator, and licensed tour guide who leads heritage tours in Europe and Israel focused on the modern Jewish story. He guides at Yad Vashem, where he also interviews Holocaust survivors, lectures internationally, hosts the popular Jewish History Soundbites podcast, and writes the “For the Record” column for Mishpacha Magazine. A former Mir Yeshiva student with a business degree from Ono Academic College, he is currently studying Jewish history at Hebrew University and lives in Beit Shemesh with his family.
References:
Jew Vs Jew: The Struggle For The Soul Of American Jewry by Samuel G. Freedman
The Jewish Self by Jeremy Kagan
Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century: Creating a Tradition of Learning by Shaul Stampfer
Making of a Godol by Nathan Kamenetsky
Psalms 89
Jewish History Soundbites
The Golden Age of the Lithuanian Yeshivas by Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky
The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry by William B. Helmreich
Bava Batra 21a
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In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we speak with Yehuda Geberer—a researcher, educator, and tour guide—about the history of the yeshiva world.
In this episode we discuss:
- How did we get from the start of the Lithuanian yeshiva movement to the American yeshiva world of today?
- What were the premodern precursors to yeshivas?
- What effect did the Vietnam War have on the development of the American yeshiva world?
Interview begins at 22:43.
Yehuda Geberer is a Jewish history researcher, educator, and licensed tour guide who leads heritage tours in Europe and Israel focused on the modern Jewish story. He guides at Yad Vashem, where he also interviews Holocaust survivors, lectures internationally, hosts the popular Jewish History Soundbites podcast, and writes the “For the Record” column for Mishpacha Magazine. A former Mir Yeshiva student with a business degree from Ono Academic College, he is currently studying Jewish history at Hebrew University and lives in Beit Shemesh with his family.
References:
Jew Vs Jew: The Struggle For The Soul Of American Jewry by Samuel G. Freedman
The Jewish Self by Jeremy Kagan
Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century: Creating a Tradition of Learning by Shaul Stampfer
Making of a Godol by Nathan Kamenetsky
Psalms 89
Jewish History Soundbites
The Golden Age of the Lithuanian Yeshivas by Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky
The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry by William B. Helmreich
Bava Batra 21a
For more 18Forty:
NEWSLETTER: 18forty.org/join
CALL: (212) 582-1840
EMAIL: info@18forty.org
WEBSITE: 18forty.org
IG: @18forty
X: @18_forty
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2026-02-24
113 min
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