Friday, December 30, 2011

Jewish Renewal in Poland: Rabbi Beliak's New Website

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I met Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak at the Georgetown / Lazarski University conference. He gave a very impressive talk at the conference, summarized at this blog post.
Rabbi Beliak now has a webpage that celebrates Jewish renewal in Poland. That webpage is http://www.jewishrenewalinpoland.org/

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  1. Interesting site. It affirms the fact that there are actually about 200,000 Jews left in Poland, and not just a few thousand as commonly thought. Poland is far from Judenrein (free of Jews).

    Considering the few hundred thousand Jews that had emigrated from Poland since WWII, it also implies that far more Polish Jews survived the Holocaust (perhaps as much as 500,000) than commonly supposed. Since it was virtually impossible for a Jew to survive in Poland without Polish help, it also implies that far more Jews were rescued by Poles than currently recognized.

    I have studied Jews in Poland for a long time, and here is my detailed list of 40 self-reviewed books on that subject:

    http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Culture-Jewish-History-Jewish-Life-Jewish-Religion/lm/R2H3XV075XK2D3/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full

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