History for the curious

#194: The Historian

Normally, on this podcast, we travel across centuries, cross continents, follow journeys, uncover forgotten lives, examine difficult sources, and ask what history can teach us about who we are today.But today, we turn to a subject both closer to home and, in some ways, more mysterious.Today, our subject is Rabbi Aubrey Hersh, on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.And for once, the historian becomes the history.