Hail to the Chief: The Life & Leadership of Rav Eliezer Silver Part II

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The opening of this shiur, in Jewish History Soundbites’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the garage prolific team members slain in west [Music] germany germany out of the 24 who were killed were americans who had come to learn in covenant i say one million jewish children who were made to become losers [Music] that's atomic perfect it is never too little and positive feedback from part one so i decided to follow it up with a part two on him as an amazing person in the amount that he accomplished so i'm going to continue and perhaps delve in a bit more in depth into some of the aspects of his life that were just done briefly in part one but before that there's some letters that i received and i'm not gonna read all of them obviously but some of the more interesting ones a a very knowledgeable and dedicated listener um submitted the story that he himself heard story that he himself heard from rabbithriam greenblatt the author of the rivervice ephraim a prominent rabbi in pisac in memphis tennessee for many years and he related how as a young man he was on his way to his first rabbinical position taking a train across the united states from wherever he was i guess from new york and he decided to take a detour and go to cincinnati and and or detour was on the way i don't know i didn't get all the exact details but he

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1. 0:00[Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the garage prolific team…
2. 5:05several thousand books in his library and urban friendly combed his library and took several crates…
3. 9:08which the inmates of the camp had to carry up um granted up two hundred and…
4. 13:15and play a prominent role in that young man eventually moved to vienna and became the…
5. 17:24during world war one so that's as far as ezra's torah as far as i'm good…
6. 21:31or unwilling to provide and it's the same with other groups other groups of within the…
7. 25:35the refugee crisis lithuania he arrives there schmidt arrives there in february of 1940 and he…
8. 29:40internalize the overwhelming reality the magnitude and the totality of the final solution and at this…
9. 33:44almost no ghettos almost all the ghettos had already been liquidated and the their occupants their…
10. 37:50over a year after the war these people had these survivors had been liberated you saw…

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