A discussion on the autobiography of Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn and his life in Jewish communities.
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The opening of this shiur, in SeforimChatter with Nachi Weinstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
episode hi everyone welcome to another edition of the Swarm chatter podcast on this episode of the podcast I'm going to be joined by m renfeld who is the associate director of turo University libraries and he is the editor and translator of the new volume one of the the A Memoir of Jewish life in Ukraine and Crimea by K goldenstein and this is translated from the Yiddish with you know as I said he's an editor but there's a lengthy about 150 plus page there's a lengthy about 150 plus page introduction in here as well maybe it's a little less but it's a a very large introduction less than that very large introduction with extensive notes and again this is volume one with volume two is forthcoming so we'll be discussing the autobiography which is fascinating full of really vivid descriptive detail of the life of uh this pin of goldenstein so thank you uh renfeld for joining me now let's start off tell the me now let's start off tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your background I learned in in Mor Town New Jersey and I have a master's degree of in information Library science I'm the associate director as you mentioned I'm the associate director of libraries at T University so this is an interesting thing it's an autobiography of it's called the because he was a as we'll get to and this is really his life in the you know late youing latter part of the
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- 31:28him this huge yearning to connect to to learning again to maintain this vital connection and…
- 37:42schul said yes you're right about that you need to know everything so you should know…
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