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Books: Leaning the lessons of Lithuania

The new book by popular historian Rabbi Berel Wein and South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein on the moral history of a destroyed Jewish community.

Historian Rabbi Berel Wein
Photo by: SAM SOKOL
Ever-popular haredi historian Rabbi Berel Wein is known for combining a clear-eyed look at Jewish history with inspirational Jewish messages. His latest book, a slim volume entitled The Legacy: Teachings for Life from the Great Lithuanian Rabbis and co-authored with South African Chief Rabbi and Jerusalem Post columnist Warren Goldstein, is an effort aimed at bringing back what Wein believes to be the “moderation” of the vanished world of Lithuanian Jewry to the contemporary religious scene.

Goldstein and Wein sat down to discuss their new volume immediately prior to giving a joint talk to a packed house at Jerusalem’s Great Synagogue.

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