September 25, 2020
The Eleven-Year-Old-Boy Who Wrote the Most Famous Song of the Vilna Ghetto
Shtiler, shtiler.
From September 22 to 24, 1943, the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators “liquidated” the Vilna ghetto. Most of its residents were either murdered in a nearby forest or shipped off to be murdered at the Sobibor death camp; a few hundred able-bodied males were sent to nearby forced-labor camps. Until then, the ghetto’s residents—despite conditions of extreme privation, under which death from hunger and disease was commonplace—managed to maintain a thriving cultural life. It was this atmosphere that produced the haunting Yiddish song Shtiler, shtiler (“Quiet, Quiet”), as Aviad Te’eni writes:
September 25, 2020
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The Ancient Synthesis of Ritual and Ethics on the Holiest Day of the Jewish Year
The rabbis saw no contradiction, only completion.
The Eleven-Year-Old-Boy Who Wrote the Most Famous Song of the Vilna Ghetto
Shtiler, shtiler.
Reading Jonah with Israel’s Leading Female Religious Educator
For Yemimah Mizrachi, it’s the simple folk who matter.