Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections at the University of Colorado Boulder

2013

Stephanie Yuhas, Netanel Miles-Yepez, Deborah Fink, Sue Salinger, David Shneer, Andrew Violet, and Jacob Flaws.

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“I was born in Poland in 1924 and grew up in Vienna, where my family moved when I was young. My father was a Hasid who developed a great interest in Western ways and ideas. He remained a devout Jew (he taught me to pray), but he also steered my education toward a pluralistic path—I went to yeshiva and at the same time attended a leftist Zionist high school where I learned Latin and modern Hebrew. I danced the hora with Marxist Zionists and also celebrated the farewell to the Sabbath with Orthodox anti-Zionists.”

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
First Steps to a New Jewish Spirit

"Schachter family portrait. Vienna, Austria, ca. mid-1930s."