Format:
688 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten, Pläne, Faksimiles
ISBN:
9780952563495
Content:
This book is the biography of Rav Dovid Spiro (1901-1970), the Rabbiner of the Fürth Jewish Community, a legend in his lifetime in post war Germany and beyond. Coming from an ancient Polish Rabbinical family spanning 500 years, Rav Dovid Spiro joined the Warsaw Rabbinate. The book contains a day-by-day account of the Warsaw Ghetto, followed by numerous concentration camps to liberation in Dachau, with detailed description of holocaust events. The book describes rebuilding the lives of survivors in DP camps and the contact with post-war Rabbinical authorities in Israel and USA. Transforming the erstwhile Jewish community of Fürth into a foremost religious center in Europe. It concludes with Rav Spiro’s final days and a collection of his letters and speeches. The book describes pre-war life in Poland, the war years and survival. Other chapters deal with the re-building of the lives of survivors in post-war Germany.
Note:
Rezensiert in: Jüdisches Leben in Bayern, 37. Jahrgang (2022), Heft 147, Seite 36 (Yizhak Ahren)
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Text mostly English, with an appendix in Yiddish (speeches and essays, partly translated into English or Hebrew) as well as in Hebrew (letters)
Language:
English
Keywords:
Spiro, David Kahane 1901-1970
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Fürth
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Jüdische Gemeinde
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Rabbi
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Geschichte 1945-1970
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Biografie
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Biografie
URL:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/exlibris/aleph/a23_1/apache_media/45FR1ER39MVXTCBY3RN8VAV6YE1VG2.pdf
