Faith and Fate / The Story of the Jewish People in the Twentieth Century
Distortions and Illusions - The Roaring Twenties 1920-1929
Episode 3

A STORY OF DISTORTIONS OF JEWISH VALUES AND ILLUSIONS OF A PARADISE THAT MAN THOUGHT HE COULD BUILD

“Distortions and Illusions” – 1920-1929 / The Roaring 20s is the story of rabbis and scholars, about yeshivas and women’s education, about strengthening the old and adapting to the new. It is a story about power, mass media, propaganda, gangsters and hoodlums… of Jewish communists on the left and radical Jews on the right. This was the decade that changed the world forever.

A decade of hope, aspirations, optimism & progress - until the bubble burst