some 15,000 jews live in antwerp. many of them work within the local diamond trade.he area in the city center in particular is lined with jewish restaurants and orthodox schools. on first glance, they -- their clothes and way of life seem like a leap back in time. trying to keep their traditions alive is not easy. one reason why many choose to marry someone from the jewish community. but not just anybody -- they used state-of-the-art technologies to reduce the risk of earth defects in their offspring. -- reduce the risk of birth defects in their offspring. >> just a few more and after three months, this copy of the tour will be finished. the jews in antwerp will have a once-in-a-lifetime celebration. >> it's a commandment for everyone who teaches children. the people should be able to transmit the torah to the next generation. >> we have the commandment to be fruitful and multiply. >> a new torah scroll is needed for a new prayer room because the ultra-orthodox community is growing rapidly. >> there's a jewish joke -- what is love? for the french, it is sport. for th

of the west was beginning to shift from the mediterranean to the western seaboard and towns like antwerp and london which would finance the domination of the west. but that lay in the future. in the story of art, the powerhouse was still italy, and the time of durer in the north was, in the south, the time of michelangelo. in rome, the renaissance was about to reach its climax. captioning performed by the national captioning institute, inc. captions copyright 1989 educational broadcasting corporation annenberg media ♪ is by movado, makers of the movado museum watch, the watch dial design in the permanent collections of museums throughout the world. additional funding for this program made possible by the financial support of... ( music ) rrat in 199 the national gall ofrtn washington of the dea of the painter sir anthy van dyck wi an extraordinary exhibition of about 100 paiings and oil sketches, gather from collections arnd t world. born in 15, van dyck's remarkable career took him from his native flanders to italy, and then to england as court painter to charles i, before the artist's

a company such as to be errors and mining centers and training centers in antwerp and even elsewhere they were quite happy to take your time and without asking many difficult questions. so if you think about the cost of funding a civil war for example you go to places where there's in the middle east or whether it's asia or even africa you can buy by maybe forty seven four hundred bucks if you would if you're trading diamonds with a couple million that's that's that's one of the here forty seven by a lot of may and cause and what countries do you see conflict diamonds being produced the most and what makes these places more susceptible to complex funded by mineral extraction. well i think it's important to point out the onset about how. this change and how diamonds are related to that conflict ten years ago when the cape he was related to it was done as a response to civil wars not gold savimbi and also. the same phone liberia and sierra leone. these were rebel groups that were funding civil wars with the help of diamonds. now ten years later if you're looking at. violence in the dia

the commodities upon which modern-day brussels and antwerp are built.both before and after the belgians, it provided more basic things. water to wash, to clean your clothes in, to cook with, to drink. also fishing. since long before the expeditions of dr. livingston and henry morton stanley, the wagenia tribe has been fishing the river in unique fashion. highly coordinated and acrobatic, the wagenia dive into the treasurous rapids in what is still referred to as stanley falls. navigate down stream between baskets that need tending. perched on a precarious network of wooden poles, they hoist together. the catch these days -- not much. >> so it is the second biggest falls in the congo river. >> ogi is a fisherman and was a guide bringing tourists to his village. since the last two wars, kisangani tourism has been pretty much nonexistent. chief of the wagenia, pierre mu sala, is said to be a direct descendant of the king who greeted stanley in the 1870s. thank him for the privilege of seeing his community. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: it's

the commodities upon which modern-day brussels and antwerp are built.th before and after the belgians, it provided more basic things. water to wash, to clean your clothes in, to cook with, to drink. also fishing. since long before the expeditions of dr. livingston and henry morton stanley, the wagenia tribe has been fishing the river in unique fashion. highly coordinated and acrobatic, the wagenia dive into the treasurous rapids in what is still referred to as stanley falls. navigate down stream between baskets that need tending. perched on a precarious network of wooden poles, they hoist together. the catch these days -- not much. >> so it is the second biggest falls in the congo river. >> ogi is a fisherman and was a guide bringing tourists to his village. since the last two wars, kisangani tourism has been pretty much nonexistent. chief of the wagenia, pierre mu sala, is said to be a direct descendant of the king who greeted stanley in the 1870s. thank him for the privilege of seeing his community. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: it's a

this is from antwerp in the 18th century and it's a copperplate print and his hand colored.s as madonna and child. this is work in the lease them a hazel tree in the garden of the visitation. next, my colleague dr. jason bourgeois will talk about some of the earliest books in the marian library connections. >> here's what i do to show you from the rare book collection. the earliest book we have is the eliminated manuscript before the printing press, manuscripts were the most common type of printed book. primarily done by monks who would hand write each letter and then would usually eliminate some of the letters to provide decoration and bind them together. this is an example of an illuminated manuscript. we have no publication information, but likely was done before the invention of the printing press. it is printed with gold letters in the capitals are eliminated in various colors. we also have a number of books which are printed before 1500 in which i consider to be especially rare. the earliest printed book we have, this book by father leonardo is a collection of sermons,

at the end of 1627, van dyck returned to antwerp. the rtraits he painted during this period reflect the solid bourois character ofhe sters. of hisitters' complex personalitie in paired portraits, he explores the ti beeen huands and wives, and, once again, the relationship between parents and children. a wonderful naturalism marks van dyck's paintings during ts period. thfigures veryuch alive. this portrait of the butiful maria uisae tais is infed with an air of ease and informality. her marvelous, captivating gaze conveys the vibrancy and warmth of her being. this effect of immediacy is underscored by van dyck's fluid brushwork, the way he paints her fashionable costume-- the slit sleeve and the delicate ribbons large-scale religious works were in demand by churches in antwerp, where the counter-reformatio had a ronghold anars met spire deep invvement in this large altarpiece, vadyck chose to focus on st. augustins reaction to his mystical vision. thsaint els ck, experiencing a moment of religious ecstasy before a vision of the holy