The series concludes with a look backward and forward. Still seeking answers, we consult Jewish sages like Maimonides and Aunt Sarah. We scratch out a pleasant, simple tune. We recall the genesis of this series, and we begin to understand who we are as Pintele Jews.

For episode notes and resources, and a comments thread where you can express your opinion about this episode, please visit noahdiamond.com/pintele.

The Pintele Haggadah is now available at noahdiamond.com/pintele! I hope you’ll consider buying a copy and incorporating it into your Passover tradition, or using it to start one.

Music heard in this episode includes “On Sabbath Eve” recorded by Efim Schachmeister and his Künstler Orchestra; “Hello I Must Be Going” by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, performed by Groucho Marx in the film Animal Crackers; “Mazel Tov” and “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen” recorded by Emil Stern; “Hava Nagila” performed by Rika Zarai; and “I’m Spending Hanukkah in Santa Monica” by Tom Lehrer. You also heard “Broadway in Blue” by Eamonn Watt, “Klezmer Moon” by Cynthia Anastasia La Fata, “Broadway Stroll” by Jeremy Hugh Sherman, “Brookline Chair Lift” by Steve Rice, and versions of “Hava Nagila” by Steve Rice and Musical Production, licensed from the Pond5 media collection.

Special thanks to the Mamales (Maya Jacobson, Raquel Nobile, and Jodi Snyder) for permission to include their spectacular 2022 recording of "Abi Gezunt" in this episode. Follow them on Instagram @themamales.

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We open with a joke in Jerusalem, then face the subject of Israel and Palestine. Next, to lighten things up, we ask what it means to be a Jewish American when fascists occupy the U.S. government. And finally, we close with a song in Bloomfield and a dance in East Berlin.

For episode notes and resources, and a comments thread where you can express your opinion about this episode, please visit noahdiamond.com/pintele.

The Pintele Haggadah is now available at noahdiamond.com/pintele! I hope you’ll consider buying a copy and incorporating it into your Passover tradition, or using it to start one.

Music heard in this episode includes “Yiddishe Charleston” by Nathan Glatz and His Orchestra and “Charleston” by the Golden Gate Orchestra. You also heard versions of “Rock of Ages” or “Ma’oz Tzur” by Josef Keller and Alon Marcus; as well as “Jewish Sorrow” by Danielyan Ashot Makichevich; “Lament for Jerusalem” by David Hollandsworth; “Forward Thinking” by Tim Brown; “Dark Ages” by Bjorn Lynne; “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” recorded by Mike Fielding; "Hava Nagila Sly Violin" by Musical Production, “Sholom Aleichem Rhapsodies” and “The Edge of Hearing” by David Ezra Okonsar; and “City at Night” by Matthew James Heathcote; licensed from the Pond5 media collection.

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Transported to South Florida, I contend with racist bullies and kosher wine. A portal to an enchanted world opens, and I cavort through various promised lands with Mel Brooks and other 2,000-year-old men. We conclude with a drama entitled “Death in the Catskills.”

For episode notes and resources, and a comments thread where you can express your opinion about this episode, please visit noahdiamond.com/pintele.

The Pintele Haggadah is now available at noahdiamond.com/pintele. I hope you’ll consider buying a copy and incorporating it into your Passover tradition, or using it to start one.

Music heard in this episode includes “Hello, Schmendrik!” by Morris Goldstein, “Hava Nagila” and “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen” from Tikvah Records, “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen” by Emil Stern, “Florida, The Moon and You” by Carl Fenton’s Orchestra, and George Gershwin's “Rhapsody in Blue” performed by Jason Weinberger and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony. Also: "Hava Nagila Sly Violin" by Musical Production, “Broadway Bigwig” by Art and Robin Munson, “Me and My Mullet” by Felipe Adorno Vassao, “Brookline Chair Lift” by Steve Rice, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” recorded by Mike Fielding, “Back to the Forties” by Andrea Damiano, and other selections licensed from the Pond5 Media Collection.

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