The nineteenth century was a time of turmoil and enormous change in the Jewish world. The current Jewish world reflects those changes and the movements in the Jewish people that were created in that century. Rabbi Berel Wein explores with us the social, political, physical and religious upheavals that characterize the nineteenth century Jewish world. Anyone who wishes a clearer understanding of the controversies and movements within the Jewish world today will benefit enormously from the information and insights presented in this tape series. Secularism, Zionism, Immigration, etc. are all presented against the backdrop of the disintegrating old Jewish shtetl life in Europe. Understand today by knowing about yesterday.