In this episode, we join Olga Chernyak, who discusses her Jewish journey of growing up in Moscow in the USSR, immigrating to Ohio, and later moving to Indiana, and her family’s struggles and successes on the way to reclaiming the Jewish traditions and maintaining Jewish memory from generation to generation.

Learn how Dee Schwartz and her family were rescued from the Holocaust by Cantor Myro Glass, living in Indianapolis.

In this episode of In Jewish History, Michael sits down with Ross Melnick to discuss Sid Grauman—the Hoosier Jewish showman who helped shape Hollywood’s golden age.

Melnick is a professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was named an Academy Film Scholar and an NEH Fellow for his acclaimed book, Hollywood's Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World, which explores how movie theaters became powerful tools of American cultural influence worldwide.

In this episode of “In Jewish History,” Michael interviews the first Jewish Mayor of Indianapolis, Stephen Goldsmith.

In this episode of “In Jewish History,” Michael decodes the Sydney Pollack story.

In this episode of “In Jewish History,” Kenneth Turchi speaks about his book "Looking Forward, Giving Back: The history of Jewish Merchants in Downtown Indianapolis."

In this episode of “In Jewish History,” Vincennes historian Richard Day talks about the history of the Gimbel Buildings and other early Jewish settlements in Vincennes, Indiana.

In this episode of “In Jewish History,” Dr. Alex Kor of Candles Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute, Indiana, discusses his book “A Blessing, Not A Burden.”