Years have passed since I have seen Maidanek, one of the many concentration camps in Europe. I grew up in Switzerland — an island of peace surrounded by the holocaust of World War II and the rumor, later the knowledge, that concentration camps did indeed exist! The day the war was over I set out on a long journey to do relief work throughout devasted Europe. The ruined cities, the hungry children, the lonely widows were only a part of the memory that I shall carry with me for the rest of my life.
Jewish Reflections on Death ~ edited by Jack Riemer, 1974, religion and spirituality, 192 pages
Rabbi Riemer selected a variety of essays that portray the historical development of the Jewish way of death, a system rich with ritual and symbolism. I bought this in 1991 and apparently never finished reading it. I'm ready to read it now. All of it.
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