Ben-Zion Gold

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Ben-Zion Gold is an American rabbi who was the Rabbi of the Hillel at Harvard University from 1958 until he became Rabbi Emeritus in 1990.[1] Gold was born in 1923 in Radom, Poland, and is the only member of his family to have survived The Holocaust. Immigrated to United States, 1947. He is a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary.[2][3]

Rabbi Gold’s memoir of his childhood in pre-war Poland was widely admired.[4]

Books

  • Tradition and Contemporary Reality (sermons and speeches), Puritan Press (Cambridge, MA), 1990
  • The Life of Jews in Poland before the Holocaust: A Memoir by Ben-Zion Gold, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 2007
  • Cisza przed burzą. Życie polskich Żydów przed Holokaustem (polish edition), wyd. Austeria, Kraków - Budapeszt, 2011

References

  1. ↑ Harvard Hillel
  2. ↑ Singer, scholar, rabbi is a man of many parts, By Ken Gewertz, Harvard Gazette , Sept. 28, 2000
  3. ↑ 60's CHAPLAINS REFLECT ON STUDENTS TODAY, By ARI L. GOLDMAN , New York Times, Published: April 12, 1987
  4. ↑ A Sad, Searching Soul , Reading Ben-Zion Gold’s achingly sad, uncommonly beautiful memoir of life in prewar Poland , By Allan Nadler, Forward, Apr 10, 2008


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