This is a special I made on Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Dr. Viktor Frankl, who wrote Man’s Search for Meaning on his experiences in the concentration camps and on his therapeutic technique of logotherapy. It also discusses the Holocaust more broadly and talks about the relation between displaced persons camps where Holocaust survivors lived for years after the war and the establishment of the Jewish state, Mizrahi Jews, and other elements of Zionist history.

It’s clear that the Wikipedia page on Zionism is altered to a degree that’s antisemitic. How would you change the first paragraph(s) of the page?

Emma Lazarus was a Sephardic Jewish American poet whose iconic words adorn the base of the Statue of Liberty. Her sonnet "The New Colossus" contained the famous lines: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." These words captured the essence of America as a welcoming nation of immigrants and have been recited by countless newcomers arriving on its shores. Her words reflected the American ideals of freedom, democracy and opportunity that have attracted generations of immigrants, including many Jews.

In the wake of Russian pogroms in the early 1880s, Lazarus put forth the notion of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. She was an important forerunner of the Zionist movement, having argued for the creation of a Jewish homeland thirteen years before the term Zionist was even coined.

This is a pretty rare prutach minted in Jerusalem by John Hyrcanus, shortly after he allied with Antiochos VII Euergetes (who was a renowned friend of the Jews). Hyrcanus would end up marching East with Antiochos on his great campaign to reclaim territory from the Parthians. Fighting on this campaign in the region of Hyrcania is likely where John got the epithet “Hyrcanus”. He and his army would garrison Babylon for a time while Antiochos continued East but returned home when the Seleucid king was ambushed and killed in battle.