The Ark Podcast
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Rachael Kohn talks to some of the world's leading religious historians and authors about curious moments in religious history.
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2008-10-12 Rosa Robota Gate
Author: ABC Radio National
Sun, Oct 12, 2008
Rosa Robota, a polish Jewish inmate of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during WWII, organised the only attempt to blow up the Crematorium used to burn bodies at Auschwitz on 7 October 1944. Holocaust survivor, Sam Spitzer, has commemorated this forgotten heroine in the Rosa Robota Gate at Montefiore Home in Sydney.
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2008-10-05 Thangkas of Andy Weber
Author: ABC Radio National
Sun, Oct 05, 2008
The ritual painting and use of Thangkas is a Tibetan Buddhist speciality, which might have roots in the earliest legends about depicting the Buddha. Andy Weber, who trained as a Thangka painter in the 1970s, has his Thangkas hanging in museums and private collections, as well as in the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet.
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2008-09-28 The Tomb of Qatna
Author: ABC Radio National
Sun, Sep 28, 2008
The most important find in the ancient city state of Qatna in Syria is a tomb that has lain undisturbed for 3,348 years. Its discovery yielded more than could have been hoped for: tablets, jewels, and the artefacts of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization. Paul Donnelly recently returned from his first visit there and tells the story of a doomed city.
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2008-09-21 Pope Pius XII - Was He the Nazi Pope or Not?
Author: ABC Radio National
Sun, Sep 21, 2008
The papacy of Pope Pius XII during the Nazi takeover of Europe has long been criticised by historians for its ineffective response to Hitler and its silence during the persecution of European Jews. Historian Paul O´Shea reconsiders the record of Pius XII in light of the Church´s long history of anti-Judaism and Eugenio Pacelli´s life before he became the Pope.
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