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Let my people grow : Hillel and the Jewish renaissance in the former Soviet Union / Rabbi Yossie Goldman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldman, Yossi, 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Russia (Federation)--Social conditions.
- Jews.
- Jewish college students--Religious life.
- Jewish college students.
- Jews--Social conditions.
- Goldman, Yossi, 1950-.
- Goldman, Yossi.
- Hillel, the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life.
- Social conditions.
- Russia (Federation).
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 194 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jerusalem ; New York : Gefen Publishing House, [2020]
- Summary:
- When the Soviet Union collapsed, much of its Jewish population emigrated. But those who remained were often disconnected from Judaism. It was into this vacuum that Hillel stepped in, gradually building a network of Hillel centres across the Former Soviet Union, serving tens of thousands of Jewish students - both those who retained a Jewish identity but more significantly those who had become alienated and estranged from their roots - and creating a Jewish future in the FSU. Rabbi Yossie Goldman led Hillel's efforts to rebuild Jewish identity among university age students in the Former Soviet Union. In Let My People Grow, Goldman tells the story of Hillel in the FSU from its humble beginnings in Moscow, and its first steps and missteps in the chaos that followed the fall of communism through to nourishing an indigenous Jewish leadership that sustains the community to this day. How does one celebrate Jewish holy days in a meaningful way that speaks to students whose experience with traditional Jewish ritual is limited at best? How does one engage Jewish young people, who literally only yesterday had discovered that they are Jews? How does one embrace them with love and respect for Jewish traditions, heritage and people, and how does one create the building blocks of community? In a journey across time and across the Former Soviet Union with its myriad languages, cultures and Jewish communities, Goldman answers these questions and more, questions that he could not have known the answers to when he started out on that journey. But as Goldman tells us: The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Genesis
- Darkness before the Light
- A Three-Hour Read Lasts a Lifetime
- Aliyah
- Mosaic
- Undercover
- 2. Hillel
- The Hebrew University
- The Green Light
- History in the Making
- The Moscow Jewish University
- First Steps and Missteps
- Indigenization
- 3. Beginnings
- The First Rosh Hashanah
- Freedoms Challenge
- The Lamed Vavniks
- First Programs
- Jewish Camping
- What are Friends for?
- Creating a Lay Board
- 4. I Never a Dull Moment
- Travel in the FSU
- Traditions
- 5. Watch out Napoleon!
- Kiev
- Sasha and Dasha
- St. Petersburg
- The Shidduch
- Doing Jewish
- 6. The Formative Period
- The Pesach Project
- How to Conduct a Seder
- The Lunatic Rabbi
- Enter the Rudin Family
- Laying the Groundwork
- 7. Expansion
- Progress
- Kishinev
- Study Mission
- Pesach Project 1997
- Minsk
- Kharkov and Odessa
- 8. Challenges and Achievements
- Who is a Jew?
- The Mechanisms of Survival
- A Magnet
- The VC Story
- The New Russians
- Jews and the Church
- Kosher Shrimps
- The Fish Rabbi
- The "Kosher" Meat Market
- Cold Chicken Soup
- 9. The Tefillah Challenge
- Introducing Shabbat
- Shabbat on Wheels
- Prayer Initiative - Unity in Diversity
- The Kishinev Model
- Hillel's Communal Services
- Morning Prayers
- High Holiday Prayers
- 10. An Unfolding Story
- Common Agenda
- 11. Restructuring
- Expanding the Pesach Experience
- Stages
- Empowerment
- The Answers
- 12. A Timely Evaluation
- Shanah Tovah
- 13. Engagement and Study
- Giraffes in the Cities
- The Elijah Promise
- Target Populations?
- Birth of Lehrhaus
- Training
- New Year
- Odessa and Kishinev
- The Dreidel Path
- Birthright Israel
- Congress 2000
- New Hillel Haggadah
- Learning Leadership
- Not Enough Prayer Books
- The Charles Schusterman z"l Leaders Congress
- Sampling of Programs
- Afikoman
- Brethren Meet
- 15. Analysis and Evaluation
- Local Leadership in Action
- Around the FSU Lehrhaus Network
- Message of Freedom
- 16. Visions and Strategies For the Road Ahead
- Am Echad
- Getting Bigger and Bigger
- Around and About
- 17. IA Visit to Exotic Lands
- Outbidding a Dowry
- The Jewish House
- Tbilisi
- Kutaisi
- The Never-Ending Meal
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9657023262
- 9789657023266
- OCLC:
- 1183421552
- Publisher Number:
- 99987053135
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