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LÉON BLUM
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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Jun 4, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
Léon Blum (1872–1950), France’s prime minister three times, socialist activist, and courageous opponent of the pro-Nazi Vichy regime, profoundly altered French society.Join us with one of France’s most eminent political sociologists Pierre Birnbaum, author of Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist, as we explore the extraordinary life and legacy of the first Jewish prime minister of France.Other historical figures mentioned in the show you can explore in Jewish Lives biographies and on the podcast: Alfred DreyfusREAD Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the AffairLISTEN TO ALFRED DREYFUS Louis D. Brandeis READ Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet LISTEN TO LOUIS D. BRANDEIS
Released:
Jun 4, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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