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Last spring quarter, I decided to challenge myself and enroll in Dr. She immediately recognized the lyrics and then chimed in with a tune I did not know the poem possessed. From then on, I often studied for class with my grandmother, who always had a sentimental story attached to the text at hand. As Judeo-Persian is a rather rare field of study, I was interested to know just what motivated Dr.

Pirnazar to pursue a doctorate degree in this subject. Pirnazar explains that she did not initially intend to study Judeo-Persian. Pirnazar soon came to believe otherwise.

I felt that it was my duty to bring some parts of this buried culture [Judeo-Persian] back to life, like an archeologist. I would cherish these flowers [poems], remove the dust from them and then publicize them for others to read and hear. Pirnazar has credited her three doctorate program advisors — Professor Hossein Ziai, Professor William Schniedewind and Professor Amnon Netzer — as individuals integral to her ability to grasp the language and to stay motivated amongst obstacles she came across in interpreting and translating texts.

Pirnazar has also credited her students, themselves, as playing major roles in her decision to continue working on Judeo-Persian texts. There is definitely a lot of bonding among students, parents and grandparents. One father of a student started to cry when he heard a poem because it was the same song that was sung at his wedding. That [the ability for classwork to connect the generations] is what gives professors [like me] the energy to keep on [working].

Her studies in Judeo-Persian have certainly allowed Dr. But for those who were personally affected, those horrors have never left.

Born in the Displaced Persons camp of Bergen-Belsen, the son of two survivors of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, law professor Menachem Rosensaft has devoted his life to the keeping the legacy of Holocaust survivors and their descendants alive. Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, reflects on his past as the of the son of two holocaust survivors. Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors In this important and poignant collection of thoughts and memories from descendants of Holocaust survivors, 88 men and women from around the world share personal, often heartrending reflections.

Readers may shed tears of sorrow, but will be inspired by the strength and courage of this worthy volume. Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, 88 of them tell how they inherited the memory and how they hope to pass it on.

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Empowering Today's Jews for a Life That Matters Feinstein wants Jews to have the chutzpah to ask tough questions of themselves, their God, their lives and their Judaism, and to not be satisfied with less than suitable answers. The virtues of this book are many. He is the author of numerous books, including The Spirituality of Welcoming: Fly-Fishing — The Sacred Art: Casting a Fly as a Spiritual Practice.

Today's American Jews have become more acclimated than generations past. Rates of secularism and intermarriage have risen, yet certain rituals, such as the Passover seder, remain ingrained in the life of a Jew. Matlins—Jewish Lights founder, editor-in-chief and publisher Recently, I realized that all my books on Jewish meditation and yoga were from the same source: Jewish Lights Publishing, which seems to be at the vanguard of renewing spirituality in Judaism.

I spoke with Stuart M. Matlins, its founder, editor-in-chief and publisher. He opened in , and they have since published over books and sold over 3. Read the Spirit Blazing Sechel! Charting the Course of the American Jewish Future. Residing in the heart of every American, that commonality made us feel as though we were part of a grand social venture that was unique and unparalleled in the history of the world. God of Becoming and Relationship: Here, Rabbi Artson finds an apt analogy to his task as a teacher of religion.

Memory and Memorializing in Judaism— Yizkor I suppose that Kol Nidrei is still the best-attended service of the Jewish calendar, but surely the memorial service known as Yizkor is a close second. Temple B'Nai Shalom's rabbi hopes readers will reel in lessons from his fly-fishing book If you ask Rabbi Eric Eisenkramer, we are a society that has forgotten to stop and smell the roses.

Charting the Course of the American Jewish Future Jewish Lights Publishing, , traces the shift from the twentieth-century Jewish obsession with Jewish continuity for its own sake, to a more universalist outlook. Rather than tending towards tribalism, the Millennials are guided by what Rabbi Sid calls a covenantal identity, meaning a spiritual legacy drawing from the values and ethics embedded in Jewish teachings to better the world at large.

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