With Prof. Adam Teller discussing his new book on the Khmelnytsky massacres (Tach-V'Tat) and the refugee crisis that followed


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Jul 17 2020 59 mins   12
Live Show #19. With Prof. Adam Teller of Brown University discussing his new book "Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century" (Princeton University Press) about the Khmelnytsky massacres in the Polish - Lithunian Commonwealth in the 17th Century (also known as "Tach-V'Tat ת"ח ות"ט for the years 1648 - 1649) and the subsequent refugee crisis caused by this. To purchase the book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691161747/rescue-the-surviving-souls. And to read the famous chronicle Yavein Metsulah יון מצולה (Which Prof. Teller is working on a brand new English edition) see here: https://hebrewbooks.org/44179