Heritage: civilization and the Jews

Part 5 Search for deliverance: This program picks up the thread of Jewish history as the intellectual awakening of the Renaissance began to alter the attitudes and habits of all people. Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johanes Kepler, Galileo, and other scholars began to examine the world around them with new eyes. Within the confines of the Venetian ghetto, Jewish culture flourished. Jewish composers, artists and poets achieved fame that transcended the ghetto walls. Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had escaped the persecution of the Spanish Inquisition, flocked to Amsterdam, known as the "New Jerusalem" where refugees from religious intolerance were welcomed.

Part 6 Roads from the ghetto : The 19th century witnessed the rise of nationalism, romanticism, industrialism, and socialism across the European continent. Jews were offered political equality and citizenship and new career opportunities in the nations of Europe. Roads from the Ghetto also documents the infamous Dreyfus case in France, which served as a springboard for "anti-Semitism"; the birth of Zionism and other modern expressions of Judaism; and the waves of Jewish emigration from Europe toward the end of the 19th century.