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Place of Their Own, A

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Publisher: Sichos In English
Format: 6.5x9.5 Softcover, 111pp
Language: English
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Author: Peter Kalms

finally, they began to arrive - our prisoners of conscience, holding on to the remnants of their Jewish identity, which under the Soviets, they could learn of only by stealth. First they were a trickle and soon a stream. It was vital to provide - in the Holy Land - and at a level comparable with their intellectual strengths, an enviroment where they could be taught - all of them, religious or not, in their own language, to begin to explore the rich heritage and the beauties of the faith which was their birthright.

That was the challenge. This books is the story of the foundation of Shamir - an organization dedicated to providing that `special space` where the new olim could grow whole again, based on the personal records of Peter Kalms. How Shamir then came to reach out to educate Russian speaking Jews the world over, in the process becoming the foremost publishers of Judaica in the Russian language is another story....

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