The Story of the Jews — S01E05 — Return

00:00:00 FEMALE ANNOUNCER: Coming up, Simon Schama

00:04:50 and then life goes on.

00:07:47 "and a disgrace to go on living, to belong to the human race

00:10:11 in the years immediately after the Second World War...

00:12:30 and I realized that it had only just begun."

00:14:48 He never disguised his conviction

00:16:59 of the declaration, he said exuberantly,

00:19:02 Even so, by the war's end, there was reason to believe

00:20:54 This is a document

00:23:15 "There will always be two nations in this country,

00:25:25 by the international community.

00:27:39 The center of gravity of the new Jewish state was

00:30:08 Hundreds of thousands of Jews, living in Muslim countries

00:32:15 My uncle was a criminal?

00:34:25 They were the elite of the new social-democratic Israel;

00:36:39 6 dramatic days later,

00:38:43 was that maybe it is right to go back

00:40:57 A Jew can live in Berlin, a Jew can live in Cairo,

00:42:38 but a blueprint for peace in this land

00:44:22 on separation and difference.

00:46:10 but at the same time, the essence of their life,

00:48:19 of a Jewish state surviving.

00:51:33 had become "the teachers of men in the greatest of things."

00:54:12 and by...