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March 26, 2017 | Judaism

By Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff

From Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet, revered Torah student, prolific writer, and cherished instructor, comes a fantastically written and engaging scholarly memoir. starting along with his early life on Washington road within the Bronx, he writes candidly of turning out to be up in a post-World struggle II international the place Lithuanian Torah students have been transplanted to the soil of twentieth-century the US, of the ideological clashes among Hasidim, Mitnagdim, and the trendy global, and of his own encounters with dozens of famous Jewish personalities together with his rebbe, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. From the realm of Yeshiva college, to aliyah to Israel, to turning into a key participant in educating Torah within the refusenik Russian group, Rabbi Rakeffet writes his well-researched memoirs with candor, large perception, and loads of humor. With the cancellation of the protection clause, he's capable of narrate the interesting inside of tale of the covert emissaries despatched at the back of the Iron Curtain.

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