The Foundation Song
In 1945, a handful of French Jews returned to Strasbourg after liberation. Their grand synagogue on Rue Kageneck — once among the finest in Europe...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Ezra 3:11.
In 1945, a handful of French Jews returned to Strasbourg after liberation. Their grand synagogue on Rue Kageneck — once among the finest in Europe — had been gutted by the Nazis, its dome collapsed, its Torah scrolls burned. The survivors gathered in the wreckage on a Friday evening. There was no roof. There was no ark. There was barely a minyan.…
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