This book - the first in a series on varied topics - is a compilation of the teachings of Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz. Each includes a source for further reading. They have been selected as a result of an almost desperate search to begin to develop a kind of "Steinsaltzian" set of marching orders for current and future students.
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz was internationally regarded as one of the most brilliant and influential rabbis of our time. He was lauded by Time magazine as a "once-in-a-millennium scholar" and by Ted Koppel of Night Line as "one of the very few wise men that I've ever met."
Arthur Kurzweil -- himself a Jewish scholar, author, teacher, and publisher -- a disciple of Rabbi Steinsaltz's for more than 35 years, as well as the rabbi's designated chauff...
Arthur Kurzweil grew up hearing his father's tales of Dobromyl, the small town-a shtetl - in what is now Ukraine, which his father had left behind as a child when his family emigrated to New York in the 1920s. As a young man in the 1970s, Arthur obsessively sought to rediscover this lost world, researching in the New York Public Library and tracking down the shtetl's surviving emigrants. This research led him write his best-selling book, From ...
In the summer of 2018, I participated in an intensive yet enjoyable week with a dedicated English teacher in Dobromyl, Ukraine, and 18 of her students. For me, there is nothing more beautiful than the faces of young people who are eager to learn. In this case, the enthusiastic students were improving their English language skills. As one of the projects during our week together, we decided to create a Ukrainian cookbook ? in English. Each stud...
This text is a comprehensive guide to Jewish genealogical research. Both inspirational and informative, it provides step-by-step advice on gathering information from family members and family papers, Holocaust research, immigration and naturalization records, and cemetery research.
