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January 13, 2017

A Polish Rabbi’s Words to a Community Facing Nazism abroad and Anti-Semitism at Home

On the Edge of the Abyss.

In 1941, Kalman Chameides—formerly the rabbi of the Polish city of Katowice—left his son Leon in the care of a prominent Ukrainian churchman in the city of Lwów, never to see him again. Kalman died of typhus in the Lwów ghetto, but Leon survived, and has now translated and published a collection of his father’s essays, written between 1932 and 1936. Elisha Russ-Fishbane writes in his review:

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