1. The Covenant    » Download this song
Jewish history begins with the covenant between God and Abraham. God promises Abraham to multiply his descendants and provide the Promised Land if Abraham will worship only God and circumcise all males.

2. The Wandering Jew    » Download this song
Abraham travels to Canaan.

3. Egypt    » Download this song
The Jews are enslaved in Egypt.

4. Moses    » Download this song
God orders Moses to lead his people out of bondage. Moses is reluctant but is ultimately galvanized into action.

5. Exodus    » Download this song
Moses leads the Jews from Egypt pursued by the Egyptians.

6. The Wilderness    » Download this song
The Jews spend forty years wandering in “The Wilderness.”

7. The Promised Land    » Download this song
The Jews arrive at the Promised Land.

8. David and Solomon    » Download this song
David unifies the Jewish tribes, and his son, Solomon, builds the first of two temples where all Jews must worship.

9. From Temple to Torah    » Download this song
The temples are both destroyed; a great blow to the Jews. But the centralized place of worship is replaced by the Talmud as a guide to their faith.

10. The Diaspora    » Download this song
Throughout the next long period of their history, Jews are forced to scatter across Europe as they are repeatedly welcomed into nations to establish commerce but then expelled due to continuing prejudice.

11. The Shtetl    » Download this song
The typical European home of Jewish settlers was the small village called a shtetl.

12. Cossacks!    » Download this song
Pogroms with marauding Cossacks were a frequent source of terror for Jews in Eastern Europe.

13. Never Forget    » Download this song
The Holocaust was the darkest period in human history.
1. Descent into Darkness
2. Shattered Lives - Kristallnacht
3. Roundup for the Death Train
4. Elegy for Generations Lost

14. 1948: The Promised Land    » Download this song
The nation of Israel was founded in 1948, providing Jews, at last, with a safe home free of the injustices which plagued them throughout their previous history.

15. 1966: The Struggle Continues    » Download this song
The Six Day War was a bold assertion by the Jewish nation of their determination to survive.

16. Next Year in Jerusalem    » Download this song
Jews throughout the world vow to visit the Promised Land.